Heroic endeavours

Flying high in New Zealand reality television

Bibliographic Data

ID23669595
AuthorsPhilippa Smith (0000-0002-5999-5263, corresponding author)
Year2013
Pages140-165
Publication date2013-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueReal Talk (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/9781137313461_8
OpenAlexW2492511679
ISBN9781137313461
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited13

Tune into New Zealand television in any given week and the menu of reality programmes in a multi-channel environment is certain to keep the hungriest of viewers satisfied. A weekly diet of `reality’ emanating mainly from Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom, as well as from New Zealand, is proof of the global popularity of reality television (RTV). The 1990s saw the emergence of the first RTV programmes to screen in New Zealand, such as Fear Factor, The Amazing Race, Who Dares Wins, Extreme Makeover and Popstars. Criticism was initially raised both locally and internationally that RTV was cheap, superficial, and tabloid (Hill 2005; Lealand & Martin 2001). But the fact that two decades later RTV rates regularly in the top ten most-watched programmes on New Zealand’s free-to-air terrestrial channels each week (New Zealand Film and TV 2011) is testimony that it has become a commonly accepted part of the nation’s media landscape. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

Criticism · Media studies · Political science · Popularity · Race (biology) · Reality television · Reality tv · Sociology · Telecommunications · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Engineering · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · History · Law · Media Studies and Communication

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