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Lost, for instance, began as an attempt to create a drama version of Survivor. Several of TV's best comedies - the American and British versions of The Office, Parks and Recreation, Arrested Development and Modern Family - have borrowed directly from reality TV's format of vérité filmmaking and "confessional" interviews with the characters...
Maybe the best example yet of the reality-fiction alliance is Fox's high school choir spoof Glee, which, in essence, is American Idol in teen-dramedy form. It is a literal re-creation of the pop appeal of Idol (just like Idol's, Glee's songs fly to the top of iTunes on a weekly basis). And it's also a critique of the American Idol culture that made it possible. In the words of Rachel (Lea Michele), "Nowadays, being anonymous is worse than being poor...
...best reality shows can be much more engrossing, complex and diverse than your average TV cop show. Last year The Amazing Race included the team of bisexual screenwriter Mike White and his gay minister father Mel White, giving a more nuanced, less stereotypical portrayal of both sexual orientation and faith than most big-network dramas would...
...natural tendency of parents to secretly judge one another. TLC's 19 Kids and Counting, about the fecund Duggars, may be an extreme-parenting freak show, but it's also a series about the life of a deeply religious family, a rare subject for TV dramas today. (See the best and worst Super Bowl commercials...
...reality TV. And even in the cheesiest reality shows, there is an aspirational quality, a democratic quality, a quality that's - yeah, I'll say it - American. "American" in the sense that what is true of countries is true of TV genres: their worst traits are inseparable from their best ones...