We laugh, we cry, we cringe: reality TV turns 20

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We laugh, we cry, we cringe: reality TV turns 20

The Guardian10 hours ago
Yes there were forerunners and antecedents to modern reality TV … hard to remember how the general public were once treated by television.
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Which TV show theme songs have topped the music charts?

Belleville News-Democrat (blog)Jul 11, 2017
One of the songs I heard was the theme from the original TV series “Hawaii … The television version of the Hillbillies theme featured Jerry …
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Streaming TV apps grapple with password sharing

Reuters15 hours ago
(Reuters) – More than one-fifth of young adults who stream shows like “Game of Thrones” or “Stranger Things” borrow passwords from people …
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How ‘Game of Thrones’ became TV’s first global blockbuster

kiiitv.com1 minute ago
That phrase – “viewers around the world” – hasn’t applied to television premieres before. For most of its history, television has been a …
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Wednesday’s best TV: Thronecast – War Room; Joanna Lumley’s India

The Guardian9 hours ago
Melvyn Bragg hosts the awards bash that spans music, dance, literature, TV drama, theatre, comedy, cinema and visual art. Yes, this can get a …
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If you think there’s too much good TV, pity the poor Emmy voters

Los Angeles Times3 hours ago
The overwhelming sense of too many choices defines our TV culture, … of the Television Academy, the problem of overabundance is no joke.
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Trustafarians and tedium: the most yawn-inducing reality TV shows …

The GuardianJul 11, 2017
Trustafarians and tedium: the most yawn-inducing reality TV shows ever … In the dog-bore-dog world of uninteresting reality television, there …
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The Very Last Piece of the TV Monoculture

The Ringer (blog)2 hours ago
Unlike other TV shows, Game of Thrones’ actors risk their jobs by … even as the rest of television gets increasingly, inexorably smaller. The Zen …
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Leather vests at the ready! The L Word is coming back

The Guardian3 hours ago
LGBT stories on television had mostly been subplots up to this point, hungrily consumed by an audience of people desperate for any scraps of …
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The best TV of 2017 so far

The GuardianJun 27, 2017
What we said: There is a strong message here that – contrary to what you might be led to believe from every other drama on television – female …

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