Reality Television

Television: the ever evolving medium:

Television's growth as an edutainment medium has been phenomenal. In societies that are more developed, TV adores the living room of almost every household. TV viewing has been the leading recreational activity for majority of population with U.S. household reported to be glued to their TV sets for almost seven hours daily on an average. Even though TV ownership in Asia and Latin America are low compared to U.S., these continents and Africa as well has been targeted as the important regions of growth of global TV industry during the 21st century. In the public domain, TV has come to occupy a venue for political debate, religious evangelism and the exchange of 'news' as also an important medium for entertainment. In the household sphere, TV has been considered as the quasi-altar during the single channel regime around which the family used to converge...
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