Twenty Years Ago, Reality Shows `Broke TV´ And Paved The Way For Today
(ArtsJournal)

Used to be, the U.S. TV landscape had a few reality shows, nothing spectacular, nothing great. But 1999 changed things: “The drama, the spectacle and arguably the artifice of reality television became the main draws. Participants couldn´t simply be regular people anymore; they had to be personalities, or types, perfectly attuned and calibrated to orchestrating […]