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I have fond memories of coming home from school, grabbing a snack, flipping on the TV and settling in to watch Maury Povich anchoring A Current Affair, the sleaziest program I had ever seen. Presaging all things reality, A Current Affair, which ran from 1986 until 1996, was purportedly a show about “ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances,” and it showed me the all the sex, drugs, violence and scandal I ever hoped to see. I remember watching, horrified and fascinated, as they showed a woman being shot and killed by her estranged husband, the sole news value seeming to be that it had been caught on tape.
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