Reality TV: valid entertainment genre or pile of ****?

Pure crap....they are so ridiculous....and they'll make a show about anything.

Oh boy, I hate most reality Tv. I don't even watch most of the channels anymore but some that I'm not sure are still on and are trash:
'Girls next door' ( since when being prostitute is something to be glorified??);

Those weird mating/dating ones from Bachelor to that freaky 'Flavor of love'... and any other with a bunch of women humiliating themselves to be picked by a guy...

Those annoying people in MTV reality shows... life must be too easy for those apathic kids because any thing is a big issue. Boring.

Those mediocre untalented young people that for some reason are news because of some reality tv... Heidi and Spencer something for instance.

Ok, some I used to like ... 'wife swap' is not that bad idea and 'man x wild'...

reality tv = trash. Speaking for me only.

i do not watch this. It is horrible to see people pubilicly embarrased. the only one tv show i have watched for man then 6 min is the nanny show,.

There is only one I enjoy watching and that is "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition". To me, that is REAL reality tv and it has a good reason/cause behind it. Anything along those lines makes excellent reality tv. The rest are crap in my opinion as there is nothing at all "real" about them....they are all about drama and ratings. The participants are purposely chosen for how they can and will "stir the pot" and the directors/producers set the stage for them to do just that. I find them highly annoying.

Pile of ****, obviously, but I dig it anyway. It's funny & an escape. If I want intellectual stimulation, I know where to find it, but I turn on reality TV for sh**s & giggles, that's all.

TV in general is a vapid wasteland with it's rare oasis, reality TV is nothing more than mindless rot.

it's the circus part of "bread and circuses"

panem et circenses

i think some of its entertaining but not all of it :P

i think some of its entertaining but not all of it :P

it's what jumping out of twelth story windows are made of :D

A very large, steaming pile of ****.

The second one. Maybe when it started Big Brother was a bold sociological experiment. Now it's just a freakshow, and so are all the other "Reality TV" shows.

I will also go for it's a pile of *****