If you don’t watch reality television, you’re probably lying. From Survivor to Big Brother, to the Kardashians and Jersey Shore, reality TV has changed the way television is produced forever. There are books written on the subject, classes taught at universities and there’s even a school dedicated to the profession. The NY Reality TV School is “pioneering the development of reality TV training.” The founder of the school is Robert Galinsky who even created a “Reality School Game Show.” Galinsky recently decided to terminate a deal with Dick Clark Productions in favor for producing the show on YouNow, “a social video platform that allows users to broadcast live video & interact with their audience in real time.”
When you land on YouNow, you can instantly see the implications for the future of the casting couch. You’re instantly taken into someone’s live broadcast and users can vote with points they earn as to whether that person should earn another minute of broadcasting or not.
“Reality TV is based on challenging participants and watching them suffer through breakdowns and breakthroughs,” Galinsky told Lost Remote. “YouNow inherently (as does social TV) demands that the New York Reality TV School give over the usual power structures, the ones that allow reality TV producers to control and abuse it’s captives, to the contestants as fellow broadcasters and content creators,” he added. Galinsky’s challenges are hilarious and breakdown the ridiculousness that makes up many of the most popular reality shows on television.
Keep in mind, YouNow is different than YouToo, which is Mark Burnett’s “social TV channel.”