• CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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        4 hours ago

        It was one of the first “reality TV” shows and naturally, it was completely fabricated.

        In America, anyway, a lot of people seem to think that “reality TV” began with Survivor for whatever reason. I don’t really understand this collective amnesia, since Cops (1989) and The Real World (1992) are both things that predated Survivor (2000), were on the air when Survivor started, and are still going…

        Apparently, the first reality TV show credit goes to Candid Camera, which was on TV in 1948, and was predated by a show on radio in 1947. I have some vague memory of Candid Camera being on in the 70s or 80s, but I had no idea it went that far back.