Capable Quote by Richard Schickel

Reality shows serve up juicy drama out of human shortcomings.

— Nina Easton

Ultimately people don't watch shows because of how realistic they are. They watch them because of the same dramatic elements that have always made…

— Michael Loceff

You can't make a good show based on pure verisimilitude, pure anti-drama. But you have to acknowledge a lot of ordinary life. Most TV…

— David Simon

A lot of these "reality shows" do a lot of producing scenes and producing things and drama and all that but we did the…

— Mike Stud

I think audiences are really thirsty for real shows about real people in any circumstances.

— Scott Speedman

All great reality shows have a very, very similar format. That's why it was so easy to parody.

— Cat Deeley

Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but that's not reality, it's just another aesthetic form of fiction.

— Steven Soderbergh

Television can take anything. It can take the most exaggerated of storytelling forms.

— Ian Mckellen

Traditionally, there's been a desire to make shows relatable so the maximum number of people would think of those characters as being recognizably like…

— Roy Price

Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but thats not reality, its just another aesthetic form of fiction.

— Steven Soderbergh

I understand our audience loves to see some drama on TV, but even they have got bored with similar patterns of carrying out reality…

— Armaan Malik

Perhaps unscripted reality shows and written fiction have already blurred together into some new amalgamated mush, just as the line between commercials and programs…

— Tom Shales