Real-Time Reality: Networks' New Shows Increasingly Treat TV Like 'Hunger Games'

'Rising Star' contestants will advance only if enough live viewers vote yes. Credit: ABC Ad Age Reports Learn five practical methods for successfully engaging with consumers through research, crowdsourcing, branded content, customer evangelism and customer service. Learn more In the post-apocalyptic world of the "Hunger Games," people sit glued to their TV sets watching children literally battle to the death. They cheer for their...

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You’ll Never Guess How These Celebrity Couples Met

1. Kate Moss and Jamie Hince. View this image › Kate Moss just so happened to be "googling men" with a friend when she stumbled across Jamie. She decided she "liked the look of him" and the rest is history. ...

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Why reality television won’t be Lindsay Lohan’s Comeback

There's a great moment midway through the first (and currently the only) season of The Comeback, HBO's 2005 cult comedy starring Lisa Kudrow. Kudrow plays Valerie Cherish, a washed-up sitcom star given a second lease on fame with a supporting role in a broad TV comedy (the perfectly titled Room And Bored), as well as her own tie-in reality show. During a lunch meeting with a TV Guide reporter, Cherish insists that the show isn't going to be tawdry; she wants to tell her story "with dignity." The Comeback itself is about the tension between the...

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There's More to Love Than 'True Love'

The report is in, and the eulogy has been delivered. Romantic comedies are dead. I say that's good news. Hollywood has long told us one big story about love: Romance is the reason for living. Meet-cutes. Butterflies. That moment when you think you've lost him forever, followed by relief and a kiss that sweeps you off your feet. Cue the swelling violins. Rom-coms and grand romances have long ruled as one of the most reliable ways to entice viewers and sell tickets. Sure, we've also had movies about family members learning to love each other...

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Reality TV Shows - Employment for Youths or Brands' Marketing Gimmick?

[April 28, 2014] (AllAfrica Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) For years now, different reality television series and shows have dominated Nigerian television stations. In fact, in a few years time, some reality TV shows will celebrate 10th anniversary of discovering talents from different parts of the country and yet not many of these brand-organised reality television shows, especially those targeted on music, can proudly point to at least five...

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Reality TV

April 28th, 2014 by Nick Barnes. It has been SUCH a busy morning at Radio 1 HQ as more and more acts have been announced for Radio 1′s Big Weekend, and one of the big names includes the biggest boy band in the world… One Direction! Yes, if you've managed to snag tickets for Radio 1′s Big Weekend, you'll be off to see One Direction, and think yourself lucky because they'll be playing in Dublin on the same night.Read more & comment »...

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Real lives of reality TV stars

By John Katsilometes (contact) Sunday, April 27, 2014 | 2:01 a.m. The greatest risk of appearing on a reality TV show, it seems, is confronted at the start: Are you trusting enough to turn over your image to a cartel of directors and producers who want to stage a series based on your life? This is the extent to which reality show producers love Las Vegas: They're even fascinated by its bureaucracy. Witness the Clark County Public...

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How to Think About Love: Part 3 – Sexual Love

MAX WEISMAN INTERVIEWS MORTIMER ADLER Mortimer J. Adler Part 3: Sexual Love Weismann: But we also know that friendly love exists in the real world where it is often mixed with sexual desire to form another kind of love — erotic or sexual love. That is the problem I would now like us to focus on — the nature of erotic love, or love between the sexes — the problem of understanding how love can be sexual and also truly love? Adler: The natural...

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