Many thought the halt of scripted programming would lead to a reality boom, but even as fall schedules rely heavily on unscripted, workers still grapple with diminished job opportunities, long hours and a lack of union support: “We get starved out all the time.”

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    “ We get starved out all the time."

    Could it be that you’re feeding on the misfortune of others, and there’s a limited appetite for this?

    Aside from Discovery, of course.

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      Seriously, they’re literally the problem, networks turned to reality TV because it was cheap and to get around the last writers strike and the one before that.

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        I sometimes wonder if the need to turn the “news” division into another “entertainment” group led to this. Most “reality television” boils down to a camera on the scene, with some faceless person asking “So, how do you feel about that?”.