American television in the 2000s saw the sharp increase in popularity of reality television, with numerous competition shows such as American Idol, Dancing with the Stars, Survivor and The Apprentice attracting large audiences, as well as documentary or narrative style shows such as Big Brother, The Hills, The Real Housewives, Cheaters, among many others.

In competition-based programs such as Big Brother and Survivor, and other special living environment shows like The Real World, the producers design the format of the show and control the day-to-day activities and the environment, creating a completely fabricated world in which the competition plays out.

Mark Burnett, creator of Survivor and other reality shows, has agreed with this assessment, and avoids the word " reality " to describe his shows ; he has said, " I tell good stories.

According to VH1's Reality TV Secrets Revealed, the shows The Restaurant and Survivor had at times recreated incidents that had actually occurred, but were not properly recorded by cameras to the required technical standard, or had not been recorded at all.

Some shows, such as Survivor, do not allow the participants to wear clothing of their own choosing while on camera, to promote the participants ' wearing of " camera-friendly colors " and to prevent the participants from wearing the same style and / or color of clothing.

* Bobby Jon Drinkard, contestant on Reality television shows Survivor: Palau and Survivor: Guatemala

Shaw also recorded sessions with Peterik's group, Survivor, on 1986's When Seconds Count, and Shaw's solo band opened the majority of the U. S. shows for Rush's 1987-88 Hold Your Fire Tour.

Slaughter aligned himself with a kayfabe Iraqi military general, General Adnan, and entered a feud with Volkoff ( which saw Slaughter win the majority of their encounters at house shows ), leading to a match at that year's Survivor Series which saw The Alliance ( Volkoff, Tito Santana, and The Bushwhackers ) defeat The Mercenaries ( Slaughter, Boris Zhukov, and The Orient Express ).

The best-known examples of the use of disapproval voting are on reality game shows, e. g. Survivor, The Weakest Link, where it is used to eliminate one contestant at a time from the contest, or the variation used on Boot Camp where the eliminated contestant can " take one ( other ) out with him ".

Among the shows it has aired are Ally McBeal ( 甜心俏佳人 ), Survivor ( 生還者 ), Smallville ( 超人前傳 ), CSI: Crime Scene Investigation ( 滅罪鑑證科 ), Elizabeth I ( 伊利沙伯一世傳奇 ), CSI: Miami ( 鑑證行動組 ), Cold Case ( 鐵證懸案 ), CSI: NY ( 鑑證紐約 ), Grey's Anatomy ( 醫人當自強 ), The Closer ( 真相追擊 ), Doctor Who ( 異世奇人 ), and Ghost Whisperer ( 靈感應 ).

Most of the shows would feature instant responses to e-mailed questions, and one show, Backchat ( hosted by Survivor host Jeff Probst ), was exclusively devoted to responding to viewer mail, whether e-mailed or mailed traditionally.

However, the WWF informed cable companies that if they chose to air Starrcade, they would not be offered future WWF shows such as Survivor Series ' 87 and WrestleMania IV.

In addition to Survivor, Probst previously hosted the FX network's original half-hour show dedicated to answering viewer letters, Backchat, along with Sound FX, a series of afternoon shows surrounding parenting, relationship and medicine ( 1996 ).

He is also featured in a Survivor slot machine, which shows a clip of him from the show if you hit his bonus.

Contestants from other reality shows, like The Amazing Race, Survivor, American Idol, The Apprentice, and The Real World, played for a grand prize and other bonus prizes such as cars and vacations.

Following her appearance on Survivor, Manthey appeared on the reality shows Blind Date, The Surreal Life and The Joe Schmo Show.

Game and reality shows were parodied as well, including a depiction of the Donner Party as participants in an 1846 version of Survivor, and almost every episode featured segments that parodied Jeopardy !, Who Wants to be a Millionaire and / or The Weakest Link, in which contestants answered trivia questions about the common beliefs of the featured era.

As an example, in Canada as of May 2011 there were more than 600 TV shows available for free streaming, including several major titles like Survivor and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

In the fall of 1996 bassist Stephan Ellis and drummer Marc Droubay rejoined Survivor but Ellis quit again by early 1999 and was replaced by Gordon Patriarca who only played about a half a dozen shows before Billy Ozzello was brought back.

Elitch Gardens also has live entertainment shows, such as Survivor Live !, and Sea Lion Splash!

Harvard creative writing professor Jane Rosenzweig found that Young Americans " has a breadth of focus that's far more true to life than the so-called reality-based shows like MTV's Real World and CBS's summer hit Survivor.

There remains some disagreement over whether talent-search shows such as the Idol series, America's Got Talent, Dancing with the Stars, and Celebrity Duets are truly reality television, or just newer incarnations of shows such as Star Search.

Although the shows involve a traditional talent search, the shows follow the reality-competition conventions of removing one or more contestants per episode and allowing the public to vote on who is removed ; the Idol series also require the contestants to live together during the run of the show ( though their daily life is never shown onscreen ).

As a result, such shows are often considered reality television, and the American Primetime Emmy Awards have nominated both American Idol and Dancing with the Stars for the Outstanding Reality-Competition Program Emmy.

There are various hybrid reality-competition shows, like the worldwide-syndicated Star Academy, which combines the Big Brother and Idol formats, The Biggest Loser and The Pick-up Artist which combine competition with the self-improvement format, and American Inventor, which uses the Idol format for products instead of people.

Television critic James Poniewozik has disagreed with this assessment, writing, " for all the talk about ' humiliation TV ,' what's striking about most reality shows is how good humored and resilient most of the participants are: the American Idol rejectees stubbornly convinced of their own talent, the Fear Factor players walking away from vats of insects like Olympic champions.

Prior to the launch of its HD feed in 2004, some sitcoms and drama series were presented in this format, but now reality, talk, and game shows ( American Idol being the lone exception, as it is presented in High Definition ) are only presented in the enhanced definition widescreen mode.

The show came in response to 5 years of utter dominance by American Idol over even ABC's most popular shows.

They later rescheduled their US tour, performing shows from June 16 – July 6, co-headlining three shows with Billy Idol.

Some of the largest installed IVR platforms are used for televoting on television game shows, such as Pop Idol and Big Brother, which can generate enormous call spikes.

All in the Family is one of three television shows ( The Cosby Show and American Idol being the others ) that have been No. 1 in the Nielsen ratings for five consecutive TV seasons.

* Idol series, one of several television shows that give formerly unknown persons an opportunity to become stars.

It began airing on Fox on June 11, 2002, as an addition to the Idol franchise based on the UK show Pop Idol, and has since become one of the most successful shows in the history of American television.

Many successful British TV shows have been exported around the world, such as Pop Idol ( created by Simon Fuller ), Who Wants to Be a Millionaire ?, Britain's Got Talent ( created by Simon Cowell ), The X Factor, Hell's Kitchen ( created by Gordon Ramsay ), The Office ( created by Ricky Gervais ), Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, Strictly Come Dancing, Doctor Who, Skins and Top Gear.

King has featured the skill-game versions of such TV shows as " American Idol ," " The Biggest Loser ," " Deal or No Deal " and " 1 vs. 100.

World Idol ( Germany: SuperStar Weltweit, Middle East: SuperStar El Alaam ) was the title of a one-off international version of the television show Pop Idol, featuring winners of the various national Idol shows around the world competing against each other.

Between 1944 and 1947 Helion had a series of one-man shows -- at the Paul Rosenberg Gallery in New York and in Paris -- of his new realistic pictures.

A series of extant drawings show Dürer's experiments in human proportion, leading to the famous engraving of Adam and Eve ( 1504 ), which shows his subtlety while using the burin in the texturing of flesh surfaces.

While the Reno Air Races keep this tradition alive, most air shows today primarily feature a series of aerial demos of short duration.

A Filmways production created by writer Paul Henning, it is the first in a genre of " fish out of water " themed television shows, and was followed by other Henning-inspired country-cousin series on CBS.

The series enjoyed excellent ratings throughout its run, although it had fallen out of the top 20 most watched shows during its final season.

The 2007 series Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team shows the process of getting on the pro squad of the Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders.

A series of 2008 research shows that CRM systems, among others, need to be more open to flexibility of technical writers, allowing these professionals to become content builders.

Other characters in the series are also referenced frequently on TV shows with similar looking casts.

Digimon Frontier ( the fourth series / season ) never aired in the UK as the shows ( then ) provider Jetix took it off the air, which shortly after, Jetix ended.

As of 2011, Digimon Data Squad ( the fifth series / season ) recently began airing in the UK on Kix ( the shows sole provider ).

This series was dubbed in both English and Tagalog, so that it would be compatible with the other shows in the block.

Tamers and Frontier were dubbed in Filipino when both series aired on ABS-CBN on its weekday morning line-up of animated shows ( Tamers first followed by Frontier after a few months ).

When the comic switched to the Tamers series the storylines adhered to continuity more strictly ; sometimes it would expand on subject matter not covered by the original Japanese anime ( such as Mitsuo Yamaki's past ) or the English adaptations of the television shows and movies ( such as Ryo's story or the movies that remained undubbed until 2005 ).

The Edge Festival ( formerly known as T on the Fringe ), a popular music offshoot of the Fringe, began in 2000, replacing the smaller Flux and Planet Pop series of shows.

Kelly also frequently appeared on television shows during the 1960s, but his one effort at television series, as Father Chuck O ' Malley in Going My Way ( 1962 – 63 ), based on the Best Picture of 1944 starring Bing Crosby, was dropped after thirty episodes, although it enjoyed great popularity in Roman Catholic countries outside of the United States.

As the Marx Brothers, he and his brothers starred in a series of popular stage shows and movies.

MacLeod also appeared as the villain on TV shows of the late 1950s and early 1960s, including Edwards's private-eye series, Peter Gunn.

Canadian contestants are generally allowed to participate on American game shows, and there have been at least two Canadian game show hosts, Jim Perry and Alex Trebek, that have gone on to long careers hosting American series.

The production of Hong Kong's soap drama, comedy series and variety shows have reached mass audiences throughout the Chinese-speaking world.

Improv comedy techniques have also been used in television and stand-up comedy, in hit shows such as the recent HBO television show Curb Your Enthusiasm created by Larry David, the UK Channel 4 and ABC television series Whose Line Is It Anyway ( and its spinoffs Drew Carey's Green Screen Show and Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza ), Nick Cannon's improv comedy show Wild ' N Out, and Thank God You're Here.

The group expanded to the Playtime Theatre during the summer, where a series of shows ran through October.

Science fiction shows advised by JPL include Babylon 5 and its sequel series, Crusade.

Jule Styne ( December 31, 1905 – September 20, 1994 ) was a British-born American songwriter especially famous for a series of Broadway musicals, which included several very well known and frequently revived shows.

* Tamora Pierce's Protector of the Small series shows the Conté royal family marrying into an Imperial line based on the Emperors of Japan ; they preserve their claim to divine lineage by adding the "- kami " suffix to their names ( e. g., Princess Shinkokami ).

Niven has written scripts for various science fiction television shows, including the original Land of the Lost series and Star Trek: The Animated Series, for which he adapted his early story " The Soft Weapon ".