Australian Idol

In the past centuries, reality TV shows has become one of the most common forms of entertainment in the many households. “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo” is a popular reality TV show aired by TLC, featuring a “Toddlers and Tiaras” star Alana Thompson, who is well known as the ‘Honey Boo Boo Child’ by many, and her “redneck” family as they screen their daily life in rural Georgian. The show was thought to be one of the most controversial reality TV shows of all time and although the TV show series…

American Idol was introduced to the United States in April 2002; the show was the search for a new superstar and at the same time the show added the element of built-in promotion, the show’s massive audience (Seabrook 125). American Idol was an amazing way to turn a small-town artist into big city names and that is exactly what it did, the millions of viewers tuning in. With American Idol, before the audience hears the person sing we hear the backstory…

“Reality” Television Author of Reality TV: Factual Entertainment and Television Audiences, Annette Hill, writes, "In the early stages of the genre, reality TV was associated with on-scene footages of law and order or emergency services; more recently, reality TV is associated with anything and everything, from people to pets, from birth to death" (Hill 41). Hill’s observations showcase how reality television evolved throughout time. Reality TV swept modern American society, especially during…

Who would have thought of someone proposing like this in a live TV show? When it comes to proposals, men are surprising women in an instant. They don't announce or letting them know in advance. They can strike any time they want, because proposing is always the unexpected one. It can be at the mall, church, beach, playground or so, it doesn't matter at all. What really matters is that the love of one man could be good enough for a woman to get convinced in loving him as well. This is what…

Truman’s Authenticity Truman Burbank is the star of his own hidden camera reality show The Truman Show ever since he was in his mother’s womb. Christof (the director of The Truman Show) cites Truman’s “authenticity” as the reason that so many people love to watch him because Truman’s emotions and reactions are real the whole time and it made the audience feel a certain way when they watch Truman. With the show share a similarity with the movie Boyhood, about a boy name Madison and we as the…

Audience Analysis Junjie Liu Audience Analysis This paper is prepared for English 207, Online A Block, taught by Carla Bradley Introduction In this paper, I want to conduct audience analysis for three articles. For the scholarly writing, I choose an essay discussing about Academic Achievement of Indochinese family. For the pop culture, I want to discuss a TV reality show. For the choice writing, I’ve decided to choose an essay which talks about the…

“What nail polish should I use?” 17 year old Camille Belcourt asked her best friend Magnus Bane. “Magnus, did you hear me?” She waved a carrot stick in front of his face. “Hellooo??” “Um, use the dark grey with the purple sparkles over it. Who's that kid over there? Is he new?" “Please don’t tell me you have a new crush.” She put her head in her hand, which was actually very hard considering she was painting her nails. “Which one?” She followed his gaze. “The one with the black hair.” “Uh oh,…

What is Derek? Derek is an outstanding television program created by Ricky Gervais. Derek first aired on channel four on April 12th, 2012. It's a British television comedy/drama as well as following the format of a Mockumentary. What is a Mockumentary I hear you ask? A Mockumentary is (a fake documentary) that Ricky Gervais (the creator, director, and writer) is notorious for. Derek has just finished the second series. The television programme has attracted a viewer-ship of 21.48 million,…

determine what makes a celebrity an idol. Oddly, 55.5 percent of people in the study idolized someone who was the opposite gender (Lin). 66.8 percent of the idols were in the entertainment industry, 10.1 percent of the idols were not celebrities (family, friends, etc), 10.7 percent were fictional characters (superheroes), 4.8 percent were entrepreneurs, 4.6 percent were intellectuals, and 3 percent were politicians (Lin). The adolescents mostly looked at if their potential idol was good looking,…

While watching cable television there are around four to five minutes breaks of commercials we encounter. Most of these commercials are about new reality shows. If they are not about new upcoming ones, there are the dates for when the current ones would make a comeback. Reality television has been around since the 1940s (Slocum). The shows that were on years ago were a lot less vulgar, then what we are used to today. Too me, it seems that reality T.V. continues to go down the wrong path. Yet,…