Iluminace 2019, 31(2):67-87 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1620

How Public Television Experiments with Reality TV

Kateřina Šardická
Masarykova univerzita

Public service stipulations include the provision of content that informs and educates, helps imagine the nation, enriches the lives and culture of its citizens. Reality TV is one of the most growing, vivid and controversial genres in the contemporary TV broadcasting from popular culture, sports, lifestyle to arts or minorities. It's genealogy comes from documentary films, but today it is considered the bottom of the TV industry when compared to the artistic documentary film. But how has this trend of reality TV impacted on public service broadcasting? This article focuses on Reality TV produced by Czech public service television (Česká televize, hereafter ČT), the biggest (and only one) public services broadcaster in Czech Republic. The article focus on three examples: docusoap, living history a docu-reality. Research for this article is based on author's experience as a dramaturgist in ČT.

Keywords: reality tv, television, Czech Television, new formats, television programming

Published: June 1, 2019  Show citation

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Šardická, K. (2019). How Public Television Experiments with Reality TV. Iluminace, 31(2), 67-87. doi: 10.58193/ilu.1620
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