ABC has a show “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition”. It is a reality show where they bring in a team of people and completly redo a house in 7 days or something along those lines. The show supposedly documents all of this, showing all the work that goes into and all.
Well, ABC has a new show this season, “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, how’d they do that?”. This show documents all the work that goes into making a reality show. Now this strikes me as a little recursive… This is a Reality Show on the realities of making a Reality Show. A little weird right? Next there is going to be a show on deciding what programing choice go into scheduling a Reality Show on a Reality Show. You can see where this is going…
To some degree I think this reflects an increased in the How & Why as opposed to the What… One example of this would be America’s Test Kitchen, PBS most popular cooking show. Half of the show is spent explaining why certain choices where made in crafting a recipe. The shows focus is on why ingrediant and recipe choices were made. In a sense, it is a show that documents the process of crafting a recipe. I think we are as interested in the motivation for a descesion as we are the actaul descesion .