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What was the first, ever 'Reality' show?
Was it Big Brother?
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There was a programme called 'The Family' in the seventies I think, where we followed a greengrocer and his extended family through their dramas.
I think that might have been the first identifiable 'reality' show. But I'm by no means sure. |
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The Real World?
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According to Wikipedia "Reality TV" goes back as far as the 40s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realit....E2.80.931950s |
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There was a programme called 'The Family' in the seventies I think, where we followed a greengrocer and his extended family through their dramas.
I think that might have been the first identifiable 'reality' show. But I'm by no means sure.
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It was indeed "The Family" at least by official standards it was the first ever reality programme. Following a normal family round 24 hours a day, 7 days a week so "Big Brother" just not so big even though for its time it was considered (and still is by some & I can understand why) ground-breaking and the viewing figures CH5 could only dream of.
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Watched that a few weeks back.
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where on earth was it on Wainy?
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It was indeed "The Family" at least by official standards it was the first ever reality programme. Following a normal family round 24 hours a day, 7 days a week so "Big Brother" just not so big even though for its time it was considered (and still is by some & I can understand why) ground-breaking and the viewing figures CH5 could only dream of.
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There was a programme called 'The Family' in the seventies I think, where we followed a greengrocer and his extended family through their dramas.
I think that might have been the first identifiable 'reality' show. But I'm by no means sure. |
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There was a programme called 'The Family' in the seventies I think, where we followed a greengrocer and his extended family through their dramas.
I think that might have been the first identifiable 'reality' show. But I'm by no means sure. |
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It was indeed "The Family" at least by official standards it was the first ever reality programme. Following a normal family round 24 hours a day, 7 days a week so "Big Brother" just not so big even though for its time it was considered (and still is by some & I can understand why) ground-breaking and the viewing figures CH5 could only dream of.
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Good old youtube.
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That's the one I would have said. Set in Reading in think?
It made odd 'celebs' of a few of them - well in the sense that people were interested in what had happened to them, and people knew who they were. |
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It was indeed "The Family" at least by official standards it was the first ever reality programme. Following a normal family round 24 hours a day, 7 days a week so "Big Brother" just not so big even though for its time it was considered (and still is by some & I can understand why) ground-breaking and the viewing figures CH5 could only dream of.
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Just to add a few more confused heads, I do believe the BBC did a follow up series.
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For sure, but there were only three or four TV channels at that time. Christmas specials, like Morecambe and Wise, got about 25 millions viewers on Christmas Day [most of them drunk or asleep by then admittedly].
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Just to add a few more confused heads, I do believe the BBC did a follow up series.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4COeBQn6BY |
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Big Brother was probably the first with the "Live coverage" concept, but as that quickly fell by the wayside, if you just look at a genre of pre-shot edited documentary style program
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_American_Family 1971 an American Family was filmed over several months In the UK a version was made in 1974 following the Wilkins Family from Reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fa...1974_TV_series) Although it could be argued that Seven-UP could be the earliest example of this - although the participants did not interact with each other until much later episodes in the series In 1978 some strangers were put together in a recreation of an Iron age settlement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living...ast_(TV_series) Wiki article on the genre, covering many countries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_television Therefore in the UK, I would say the first example of putting strangers together in one enclosed location, and filming them, was 1978 "Living in the past" |
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Big Brother was probably the first with the "Live coverage" concept, but as that quickly fell by the wayside, if you just look at a genre of pre-shot edited documentary style program
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_American_Family 1971 an American Family was filmed over several months In the UK a version was made in 1974 following the Wilkins Family from Reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fa...1974_TV_series) Although it could be argued that Seven-UP could be the earliest example of this - although the participants did not interact with each other until much later episodes in the series In 1978 some strangers were put together in a recreation of an Iron age settlement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living...ast_(TV_series) Wiki article on the genre, covering many countries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_television Therefore in the UK, I would say the first example of putting strangers together in one enclosed location, and filming them, was 1978 "Living in the past" |
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There was a programme called 'The Family' in the seventies I think, where we followed a greengrocer and his extended family through their dramas.
I think that might have been the first identifiable 'reality' show. But I'm by no means sure. |
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Competitive reality is a subgenre really, and that probably started in the 90s as a new type of gameshow.
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