In it, he cited the creation of reality television shows that thrust start-ups and entrepreneurs in the spotlight.
Decades before reality television shows like Extreme Makeover hit the airwaves, decorators' show houses were big moneymakers for charities.
The boxer has endorsed big brand names and makes regular appearances on reality television shows and at Bollywood parties.
Some Buddhists are fighting fire with fire by turning to reality television shows and the Internet to revive interest in Buddhist teachings.
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The same, of course, can be said about reality television shows.
Aping the increasingly grotesque genre of reality television shows, local celebrities and washed-out headline-starved failed former security brass got together with Yediot Aharonot and put on a reality TV stunt for the public to mark the anniversary.
Generally when the sons and daughters of Australian immigrants appear on prime-time reality television shows it is with a cooking utensil or a recipe in hand (good food, combined with self-deprecatory humour, have long offered new arrivals here the quickest route to acceptance and assimilation).
As the broadcast networks rev up to debut dozens of comedies, dramas and not-so-real reality shows, the new fall television season already is a smash hit, financially.
In the U.S. viewers with satellite television can watch its soap operas, game shows and reality programs like India's take on American Idol.
There's also the challenge of producing a stunt that will actually shock people in a time when "so many hours of television are taken up with people doing insane things on reality shows, " says Terry Press, a former marketing consultant and current co-head of CBS Films.
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