You have creative control of the next TV reality show. What is your original idea?

I don't know if this would count as a "reality show" because I haven't seen enough of them to know what they really are...

I would have people stage different kinds of scenarios to record bystanders interpretations of them. It would probably be too boring for average TV watchers, though, unless it made over-reacting people with faulty interpretations look silly.

A day in my life - it really is unpredictable and such a wide variety of people to socialize with...

I haven't really watched TV for years. I'm aware of this "Reality TV" genre that has come up in the past few years, but I don't know much about it. I'll take a crack at it though...

I'd do something sort of like "America's Funniest Home Videos" where people would send in their own (not necessarily humourous) material. Then I would have some very talented and artistic people edit the stuff into a show. What I absolutely wouldn't do is have any kind of host or live audience or additional soundtrack material or anything like that.

[posted from another survey]
A little while ago, I developed a theory of how to spice up Big Brother if C4 decide to recommission it next year (or at the very least make it more interesting). What they need to do, is pick contestants that have obscure (but nonetheless, severe) phobias that clash with each other.

(No, don't scoff like that, hear me out!)

Imagine how the furniture would be arranged in the house if one of the contestants had levophobia (a fear of things to the left side of the body) and another contestant had dextrophobia (a fear of things to the right side of the body). Imagine the comic potential of having one person with vestiphobia (a fear of clothes) and one person with gymnophobia (a fear of nudity). Or conversations between someone with Stasiphobia (a fear of standing) and someone with cathisophobia (a fear of sitting).

There would surely be conflict between an ablutophobe (someone with a fear of washing or bathing) and a bromidrophobe (someone with a fear of bodily smells).

Control of the curtains would be a struggle between the phengophobe (a person with fear of daylight/sunshine) and the lygophobe (a person with a fear of being in a dark place)

Kitchen time would be infinitely more interesting if the house contained someone with carnophobia (fear of meat) and someone with lachanophobia (fear of vegetables). The cuisine might have to consist of peanut butter sandwiches every day - which would be a dilemma for anyone with arachibutyrophobia (a fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth).

And hopefully (for their sake anyway) the person voted out in the first week would be the contestant with euphobia (a fear of hearing good news).

I think you'll agree, it's a winner.

[also posted from another survey]

Surviving Cannibal Island
15 castaways on a desert island are forced to live off the flesh of the people they vote off each week. Week 3 - Controversy ensues when Jill is exposed as a closet vegetarian, who has been surviving on a secret stash of bread and chocolate.

Making the Vice President
Thousands of hopefuls audition for the chance to become the Vice President of the United States of America. Episode 4 - The judges are unimpressed when Bill, a retired plumber from Tuscon, inadvertently spells potato correctly.

Dr. Laura Island
An astounding social experiment in which volunteers are stranded on a remote island with no access to the media other than the broadcasts of Dr. Laura Schlessinger. Day 23 - When 15yr old Samantha is caught masturbating, the islanders hold a vote on whether to accept it and move on, or throw her into a pit of fire.

Homo-erotic Temptation Island
20 loud-mouthed, self-confessed homophobics are stranded on an island populated by hard muscular male models aged 25-35. Day 12 - Jeff, 31, an auto mechanic from Tulsa, comes to the diary room to confess he nearly got an erection when Nathan was drying himself off in the sauna.

Maximum Security
12 volunteers get to spend 12 weeks in a real maximum security prison sharing cells with hardened criminals on the violent blocks. Week 2 - Tensions mount when Phil, 23, a web designer from Seattle, is given the name Lucille by his cell-mate Butch.

You, my friend, have a lot of time on your hands these days, don't you

Quite the reverse. Hence why it's got to the stage that if a survey asks a question I've pretty much already answered, I re-post my comment from the previous survey (in this case http://surveycentral.org/survey/9230.html and http://surveycentral.org/survey/16427.html)

ahhhh

I'd like to see a show that focuses on a group of people, each with minor psychological problems, who get treatment from a psychiatrist over a period of weeks. We'd get highlights from their therapy sessions and get to see how they changed (and hopefully, improved) over the time period. Presumably, some would start taking anti-depressants, etc. There wouldn't be an competition or "voting off". We'd just get to see what therapy and drugs are like for these people, get to know them a little, etc.

i really haven't got a clue what i would do for a reality show, i've never really thought about it!!!

Halloween of course. My version of 'Survivor'. I'm Michael Meyers and every night is Halloween. Whoever survives (literally) is the big winner.

> Halloween of course. My version of 'Survivor'. I'm Michael Meyers
> and every night is Halloween. Whoever survives (literally) is the
> big winner.
Maybe you should make certain that they watch "Scream" first so that they know the rules. Like saying "I'll be right back", being a teenager and having sex or drinking booze, etc.

I don't watch reality shows. None of them has ever managed to grab my interest.

We don't have TV.

Big Brother - Pensioners.

But get really uppity grouchy ones who complain about everything.
Or have really daft stories to tell.
Or those quirky ones - (you know the type)

Anything other then those desperate young attention seeking muppets.

I watch Big Brother, and that is it. I hate all other reality shows.

I propbably wouldn't create one.

hmmm thats a toughie....it would prolly incorporate lots of guys and lots of sex yeh......eh......not sure bout the plot yet, but yeh im sure bout the guys....and the sex......hmmm im thinking its gonna be a good one too.....hmmmm

Who Shall Become the Next Meal for My Pet Cheetah/Jaguar/Hyene - Celebrity Edition

Live execution?

I do a reality show on parents in the classroom. Let parents who think that their child does nothing wrong come and teach in the classroom for 6 weeks. The last one voted off by the audience gets one month's salary that the teacher would make.

I'd be glued to the tv. That would be hilliarious.

Thanks. Which one? Your reply didn't match up to my original comments.

now, i'm curious...i sure thought I posted to the comment. Come to think of it, when Irene has made comments to me, it didn't match the original either.

Anyway, it was the reality show with the phobias.

I did post to the right one, but you didn't get it that way........OH BILL!!!

It's a long standing 'feature' of Survey Central, as far as I know. No matter which comment you select, the person you are replying to will always see it as a reply to the last comment they made. I think that's why bill introduced the 'quoted reply' function.

Ahhhhh
Makes sense I guess.
I'll have to get used to quoting and deleting. lol
Thanks

Although I am sick of reality shows, I will play along and say that the next reality show I'll create involves say 3 comedy troops,( Team 1, 2 and 3) and a group of struggling but brilliant play writes. Competition, elimination and interesting tasks happen, blah, blah, blah.
The winners in the finale are the troop still remaining and the last playwrite that is left standing. They will get to write a comedy play for the acting team and make a world renounded play. Then its the actual making of the production that is on the next season, ending with the opening night and us seeing the finished product.

I watch Animal Cops, Forensic Files, American Justice (anything with Bill Kurtis on A&E), Dirty Jobs on Discovery, History channel, Court TV, Animal Planet... these are the kinds of reality shows I watch.

Not the contrived crap I see advertised as entertainment.

My reality shows are from real life.

Ever seen Battle Royale?