17 Facts About Reality show

Reality show television has faced significant criticism since its rise in popularity.

Confession was a crime and police Reality show that aired from June 1958 to January 1959, with interviewer Jack Wyatt questioning criminals from assorted backgrounds.

The success of Real People was quickly copied by ABC with That's Incredible, a stunt Reality show produced by Alan Landsburg and co-hosted by Fran Tarkenton; CBS's entry into the genre was That's My Line, a series hosted by Bob Barker.

Sylvania Waters was an Australian Reality show that depicted a family, similar in concept to An American Family.

In 2007, the web series The Next Internet Millionaire appeared; it was a competition show based in part on The Apprentice, and was billed as the world's first Internet reality show.

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Shows that Reality show people working in the same non-business location include Airport and Bondi Rescue.

U8TV: The Lofters combined the "special living environment" format with the "professional activity" format noted earlier; in addition to living together in a loft, each member of the Reality show's cast was hired to host a television program for a Canadian cable channel.

The syndicated program Cheaters purports to use hidden cameras to record suspected cheating partners, although the authenticity of the Reality show has been questioned, and even refuted by some who have been featured on the series.

The Reality show is usually presented as a job search of some kind, in which the prize for the winner includes a contract to perform that kind of work and an undisclosed salary, although the award can simply be a sum of money and ancillary prizes, like a cover article in a magazine.

On that Reality show, there are complex rules around immunity: a player can achieve it by winning challenges, or, in more recent seasons, through finding a hidden totem.

In many cases, the entire premise of the Reality show is contrived, based around a competition or another unusual situation.

In 2007, Abu Dhabi TV began airing Million's Poet, a Reality show featuring Pop Idol-style voting and elimination, but for the writing and oration of Arabic poetry.

Reality show television has received criticism in Britain and the United States for its ideological relationship with surveillance societies and consumerism.

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

The first such Reality show was the BBC series Operation Good Guys, which premiered in 1997.

Arguably the best-known and most influential such Reality show is the BBC's The Office, which spawned numerous international remakes, including a successful American version.

The Chinese reality show Keep Running was adapted for the 2015 film Running Man.