Reality television is a scripted hyper-life that employs writers, but won't allow them to call themselves writers or join the union.
Reality TV has managed to commodify everything we used to think of as the elements of normal life.
I really enjoyed Merrill Markoe's Guide To Glamorous Living, which was a weird hybrid reality/sketch thing I wrote, directed, and hosted, with two male-model bimbos whom I made agree with everything I said.
