The focus here will be on Big Brother as a well-known and indeed archetypal example of the British reality TV community. Firstly, it aims to provide a brief, critically engaged evaluation of the early representation and marginalisation of disabled people in popular factual television formats, considering the social makeup of reality TV populations and the scope for the involvement of disabled subjects in the UK, Australia and in the USA. This chapter pursues two related purposes. It addresses 'truth' telling, confession and the production of knowledge about the self and its place in the world within forms that produce new configurations of social and media space. Through detailed case studies, this book breaks new ground by linking two major themes together: the production of realism and its relationship to revelation. These discussions focus on tabloidization, media ethics, voyeurism and the representation of the real. This book analyses new and hybrid genres including observational documentaries, talk shows, game shows, docu-soaps, dramatic reconstructions, law and order programming and twenty-four/seven formats such as "Big Brother" and "Survivor," These programs, both popular with audiences and heavily debated in the media are at the center of heated debates. "Reality TV" takes the reality television phenomenon to be a significant movement within documentary and factual programming. "Reality Television" has little to do with reality and everything to do with television form and content.
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