for media researchChapter 10 - "The Explosion"
About how reality blew up after Survivor/Big Brother and became a whole industry
"The reality craze had become a bonanza for a set of creative misfits who flowed in from the fringes of Los Angeles, strivers who had been locked out of Hollywood proper...Meanwhile, ordinary people were flooding casting agencies, confident they had the stuff to become the next Richard Hatch." [p.268]
OTHER STUFF
it was just a ton of people/networks trying stuff
> a lot of which crashed and burned
but there was so much it didn't really matter
- Jackass took off
- also celebrity reality shows with The Osbournes and more
FURTHER RESEARCH
- The Year of the Sex Olympics (1968) sci fi fantasy about a future in which a tiny elite control the population with sordid game shows
- The Joe Schmo Show original version of Jury Duty
Chapter 11 - "The Rose"
About the creation of The Bachelor and also Joe Millionaire
- the "dating show" reality show and also the kinda spoof (Joe Millionaire)
The Bachelor was the first show to not have different couples every episode, but to have a season long, narrowing down of the relationships
> rise of the "Frankenbites" i.e. the molded together sound bites; also rise in producer meddling or construction of moments
> also notes in here of how the "first season was the most pure"
I like how the chapter (and book) focuses on the crew, noting how it was kind of young people's work, or just how they were kinda fucked up by the process too (Even Bachelor crew member Sarah Shapiro making the show UnREAL which incorporated biographical elements of her experience)
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