How does Hill define reality TV?
Over the past decade, the genre reality TV has changed dramatically from only airing emergency services or ‘on-scene footage of law and order’ to practically anything in terms of people, animals, birth, death, etc.
Reality television is less about genre and more about the treatment of ‘realities’ in the “border crossing” between fact and fiction. Reality central defines reality TV by the ratings or by how many people watch the channel because of the reality stars that are featured in the channel – the stars are primarily there to promote the TV channel which of course would get more viewers and ratings.
Reality TV or reality programming is a series “of events in the lives of individuals or groups, the attempt to simulate such real-life events through various forms of dramatised reconstruction and the incorporation of this material...into an attractively packages television programme.” (Hill, 2005)
Reference List
Hill, A. (2005) The reality genre. In A. Hill, Reality TV: Audiences and Popular Factual Television. (pp. 14 – 40). Oxon: Routledge.
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