Several years ago, actually before reality TV proliferated the airwaves, we met with a television executive in Los Angeles. As we were discussing double cheeseburgers, the saltiness of fries and the potential to syndicate Rob and Bill's TalkShow, he told us that he thought we should film in a studio behind a desk like "traditional" talk shows. For some reason he didn't think that people would ever watch reality TV. He said the public was just too sophisticated to watch television that wasn't high quality production value and not scripted. I guess the public became less sophisticated.
Rob and Bill "lived outside the box," "broke the TV rules," "changed the game," "shifted paradigms" and a bunch of other over used business bingo phrases.
Take "Weird Man." Now that was just plain old unscripted genius and reality fun.
The originators of Reality TV, creators of 2-Man Television and Inventors of the Internet
