On any given night, both broadcast and cable schedules will be clogged with backstabbers, hoarders, addicts, wannabe performers and chefs, damaged “celebrities,” and an endless array of cartoonish fame seekers. One-third of the fall network lineup is comprised of the format, with stalwarts like The Amazing Race, The Biggest Loser, and Survivor, and new entries The X Factor and H8R vying for audience. On cable, more networks than not, in fact, are populated with nonscripted shows, which is cheap to produce and tends to attract the younger-skewing audience advertisers covet.
Once considered filler for the dog days of summer, the genre has fragmented into an array of subcategories like competitions (singing, in particular) and docudramas.
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