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[olore]

Wow, that's pretty interesting! How were the audiences for those shows? We're they rowdy/somewhat trashy?

Yeah, do spill the beans mate

 

[Chuckl3s]

Wow, that's pretty interesting! How were the audiences for those shows? We're they rowdy/somewhat trashy?

The audience were always rowdy just like you see on the tv show. They were always a good bunch that got in to it. I'm assuming they were locals of Chicago that go to the show for shits and giggles.


Edit: As I said before, the guests were the trashy ones. When I watch the Jerry Springer Show now and read the "topic" it doesn't surprise me that its somewhat true. I can go on forever so if you have more questions just ask..willing to tell all.

Also here is what I did on the show:

Show1: Christmas Show. I was body painted as Rudolph the red nose reindeer.
Show2: New Years Show. I was baby new year and at the end of the show I was "born" out of a stripper.
Show3: St Pattys Day Show. Of course I was a leprechaun and danced around passing out candy of gold.
Show 4. Cinco De Mayo Show. I was dress as an illegal immigrant and during the commercial break I would try to cross the border which was protected by the "stripper border patrol".

All of the uncensored shows always had strippers and a couple of them would mud wrestle or on the st pattys day show would wrestle in corn beef.

 

[OfWhiteSkinOnRedLeather]

I think everybody has accidentally dropped something super-expensive at some point or another in their life (laptop, cell phone, etc). I don't see how it's so unbelievable.

He had it in his bag, placed the bag's strap over his shoulder, then took the item OUT of the bag for no reason and proceeded to drop it while getting out of the truck. Complete nonsense. It was entirely scripted.

 

[aristotle]

He had it in his bag, placed the bag's strap over his shoulder, then took the item OUT of the bag for no reason and proceeded to drop it while getting out of the truck. Complete nonsense. It was entirely scripted.

Not to mention the item in new condition could be bought for less than $50. The whole thing was terrible. If he was actually thinking it would be worth something, he's an idiot.

 

[ajf009]

anything with Chum in Pawn Stars

 

[Mario]

I actually thought "The Casino" offering an inside look at the Golden Nugget in Vegas was real at first until I recognised an actor playing the part of a supposed pimp. Not to mention when one of the dealers visited the Bunny Ranch and he decided to bolt there was conveniently a camera locked on the back door which captured him running out.

Kicked myself for thinking I was watching some kind of documentary series.

 

[ghstwrld]

All TruTV shows are fake. Annoyingly so.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tvngcO7G2w

 

[alphaNoid]

anything with Chum in Pawn Stars

The show has been scripted since the Pilot, they've just gotten much worse at it to pull new people in to the show for ratings.

edit. The only true reality show was the first, and thats Cops! Hail to the king baby

 

[Vyer]

The only time I ever tried to watch Jerry Springer, I recognized one of the guests as an actress in a Skinamax show.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tvngcO7G2w

smfh

 

[lightus]

So... I'm assuming Shark Tank is fake but I just don't know the extent of it. What do you guys think? (sorry if this has already been talked about, I didn't scan through the whole thread)

The people's reactions seem a bit off sometimes, but I'm not sure if that's due to nerves or bad acting (or both). Also, I know these guys are rich, but they are putting money down every show. How often could they keep that up?

The only thing that holds me to think it's real is the fact that there are so many different products and such and some seem rather well thought out. I can't picture writers "inventing" multiple new things every episode.

 

[Jeff-DSA]

holy shit I watched that south beach tow video..

I'm speechless.

Probably because a writer didn't hand you a script.

 

[Treythalomew]

TruTV gets a bad rap for its shows but shows like Operation Repo don't even pretend like they're real. They start the show saying that it's a recreation of events.

 

[NoirVisage]

Everything on TV after the Boston season of the Real World.

 

[Monroeski]

Oh I know that, but the good ones don't blatantly give themselves away like the example above.

Does not compute

 

[Row]

they all have heavy scripting, the contestants are essentially always on rails

 

[MattKeil]

ITT people use the word "scripted" wrong constantly and without fail.

The majority of reality shows are not "scripted" in the normal usage of the word. Most of the people in reality shows wouldn't be able to memorize a script if you paid them (and they do pay them!), so nearly everything you see in the "slice of life" reality shows is a setup, not a script. Situations will be set up, certain people will be told how to act or fed a particular event the producers want to happen, and the rest is essentially improv.

The real "scripting," if you want to call it that, is in post-production, where the editors piece together what was shot into a well-paced and intelligible narrative throughline. This is exactly why there has been a lot of difficulty with editors demanding writing credits and/or Writer's Guild membership, as in many cases of reality programming the editors really are the "writers" of the shows.

 

[DJMicLuv]

Show 4. Cinco De Mayo Show. I was dress as an illegal immigrant and during the commercial break I would try to cross the border which was protected by the "stripper border patrol".

Now that's a border I'd like to breach!

 

[Princess Viola]

Now that's a border I'd like to breach!