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Fake reality shows

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On the way to the neighborhood’s park today we saw a small TV crew shooting. Curious that we are we asked what are they shooting and we found out it was some reality show about a couple that is getting divorce.

I never liked reality shows. It always seems to me like a failing attempt of the network to save money on real actors, directors and actual plot. However I never knew, not that I invested time finding out, how fake these reality show are.

The street was closed and they were taking shoots of the participant walking around and doing stuff, which seems to me like a lot of thing but not reality. They had the participants crossing the street many times until they were happy with their performance.

We went to the park and had fun; when we walked back home the TV crew was still there faking a reality show.

As a bright contrast, in the park we saw a rehearsal for “As you like it” . What a fun the young actors of Hudson Shakespeare Company , and we, had…

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Written by Rogel

May 29th, 2006 at 7:01 pm

Posted in TV Waste of Time

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