Reality television is a television programming that presents purportedly unscripted melodramatic or " humorous " situations, documents actual events, and usually features ordinary people instead of professional actors, sometimes in a contest or other situation where a prize is awarded.

Reality television began in 1948 with Alan Funt's TV series Candid Camera.

Reality television frequently portrays a modified and highly influenced form of day-to-day life, at times utilizing sensationalism to attract audience viewers and increase advertising revenue.

Reality television as it is currently understood can be directly linked to several television shows that began in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Reality television saw an explosion of global popularity starting in the summer of 2000, with the successes of Big Brother and Survivor ( in the US ).

Reality television had a decline in viewership in 2001.

Reality shows with low ratings included The Amazing Race, Lost ( unrelated to the better-known serial drama of the same name ) and The Mole, leading some to speculate that reality television was a temporary fad that had run its course.

There have been at least three television channels devoted exclusively to reality television: Fox Reality in the United States, launched in 2005, Global Reality Channel in Canada in 2010, and Zone Reality in the United Kingdom, launched in 2002.

Reality television shows like The Real World have received criticism for being staged.

Reality television shows have faced speculation that the participants themselves are involved in fakery, acting out storylines that have been planned in advance by producers.

Reality television has the potential to turn its participants into national celebrities, at least for a short period.

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Since the release of the film that shares her story and name, she has hosted Challenge America with Erin Brockovich on ABC and Final Justice on Zone Reality.

More recently, he has also edited Gary North's Reality Check, a widely-circulated free e-newsletter.

Because it has no finite spatiotemporal extent, a single point of Minkowski space cannot be an occasion of experience, but is an abstraction from an infinite set of occasions of experience, as explained in Process and Reality.

Virtual reality has also been featured in other Red Dwarf episodes, including " Back to Reality ", where venom from the despair squid caused the characters to believe that all of their experiences on Red Dwarf had been part of a VR simulation.

Reality television's global success has been, in the eyes of some analysts, an important political phenomenon.

Despite arguments that realism cannot be achieved in reality shows because the outcomes may or may not have been scripted, Geoff King argues in his book, Spectacle of the Real: From Hollywood to Reality TV and Beyond that even though the contestants are in a fabricated setting and the situation has been set up for a certain outcome, as in real love shows such as The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, these contestants still harbor feelings that make their participation in the show real to them.

The Socratic method, in the form of Socratic questioning, has been adapted for psychotherapy, most prominently in Classical Adlerian Psychotherapy, Cognitive Therapy and Reality Therapy.

An additional Augmented Reality Conference, called ARE, has been held in Santa Clara, California since 2010.

" His sister, actress Amy Stiller, has made appearances in many of his productions, including Reality Bites, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, and Zoolander.

This was intended merely to prove a point about the effect of Eternity on the individuals from real time who learn of it, but it has the unintended consequence of making Harlan besotted with the woman, so much so that he smuggles her into Eternity, since he has discovered that she will cease to exist in real time when the Eternals make their next Reality Change.

He has deduced that the woman, Noÿs Lambent, is herself an agent of Reality Change.

Since parting with Ahern, she has expanded her chain of beauty salons, and has appeared on Reality Television, in an RTÉ show The Restaurant, a more serene forerunner to the ITV series Hell's Kitchen.

:* The Theravada Buddhist place of worship Wat Dhammapateep ( Temple of the Flame of Truth or Reality as taught by the Enlightened One ) has since 2005 on its grounds an in China beautifully sculptured Buddha seated on a soccle, both in dark green granite – the tallest stone Buddha statue in Europe.

West has recorded over fifty audiobooks, among which are the Shakespeare plays All's Well That Ends Well, Coriolanus, Henry V, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing and Richard II, the Wind on Fire trilogy by William Nicholson ( The Wind Singer, Slaves of the Mastery and Firesong ), the Arthur trilogy by Kevin Crossley-Holland ( The Seeing Stone, At the Crossing Places and King of the Middle March ), five books by Sebastian Faulks ( Charlotte Gray, Birdsong, The Girl at the Lion d ' Or, Human Traces and A Possible Life ), four by Michael Ridpath ( Trading Reality, Final Venture, Free to Trade, and The Marketmaker ), two by George Orwell ( Nineteen Eighty-Four and Homage to Catalonia ), two by Mary Wesley ( An Imaginative Experience and Part of the Furniture ), two by Robert Goddard ( Closed Circle and In Pale Battalions ) and several compilations of poetry ( Realms of Gold: Letters and Poems of John Keats, Bright Star, The Collected Works of Shelley, Seven Ages, Great Narrative Poems of the Romantic Age and A Shropshire Lad ).

In this sense, Abraham has been described as representing " primordial man in universal surrender to the Divine Reality before its fragmentation into religions separated from each other by differences in form ".

The phrase has been used multiple times as a plot device in films and television dramas including Die Hard with a Vengeance, Police Academy, Demolition Man and the TV series Underdog as well as being played in television game shows including 1970s show Superstars and Battle of the Network Reality Stars.

May my intellect assume the form of Bhakti in Srinivasa, the highest Reality, revealed in the Vedanta as the Lord who creates, protects and destroys the whole universe with sportive ease and who has taken a vow to protects all creatures who seek him.

His works include the originally self-published Reality Asylum, a vitriolic attack on Christianity which has appeared as a 2 minute track on Crass ' 1978 debut album The Feeding of the 5000, as a longer single and as a 45 minute spoken word monologue.

Alternate Reality ( AR ) is an unfinished role-playing video game series that has achieved cult status among many fans of RPGs.

Robbins has cameo roles in the 2001 movie Shallow Hal, the 1994 movie Reality Bites, three episodes of The Roseanne Show and an episode of The Sopranos.

Essentially, Weidmann has delivered Hollywood's first " Reality Movie ".

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* Reality Check Network, a software based warez magazine that existed from 1995 to 1997