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Originally Posted by ico2525
I can't bring myself to watch a lot of TV because so much is scripted crap that people believe really happens(ed). If any of you have questions about the show and how the majority of it is produced / scripted and very little is based on real events, I'll do my best to answer.
Yeah, but its still fun to watch. But as to your point, you of course are correct - - - and not only about this show, but about most all reality tv shows.
I have first-hand experience with dealing with reality tv because one reality show was focused on my wife and I as we attempted to sell our house a few years ago. The show was
Designed to Sell on HGTV. For those who are unfamiliar with the show (which I assume is most of the people on this forum), a camera crew comes to your house to see what needs to be updated and/or redesigned to help you sell. A real estate "expert" states what needs to be done, the designer then comes up with the fix, and then contractors come in to make the changes. (We got an updated bathroom, a redesigned den, and some changes in a guest bedroom.) At the end, an open house is filmed with the host asking the prospective buyers how they like the house.
The entire show was pretty much scripted. Not only that, but most scenes were filmed several times from various camera angles to get the different perspectives. Before filming, the director told the real estate expert what she should say was wrong with the house. The "open house" consisted of our friends and neighbors, and the director told them how they should react and what they should say. At the end of the episode, the director instructed us to state on camera that the house had been sold and that we had received our asking price and it was all due to the changes made by the design team.
In point of fact, we hadn't even put the house on the market yet. That happened shortly after the show was filmed. Although it was a lot of fun being involved in the filming of the episode for the week or so that it took place, very little of it was "real."
cliffs: I participated in a reality tv show and can confirm that they are pretty much scripted.