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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reality TV at 10: How It's Changed Television — and Us | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

...school sitcom would have told this joke as a zinger ("Yeah, well, tell your nesting instinct it left a Ding-Dong wrapper on the kitchen counter!" [Canned laughter]). This screwball-vérité style, by adding a layer of visual irony, allows Modern Family to pack its jokes tighter (the straight line and the contradiction are simultaneous) and connects the audience more intimately. You're not just a fan; you're a voyeur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Laugh Track Required: The Comeback of the Sitcom | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

...Crimson recorded 38 points in the 26-team men’s championship race, finishing ahead of second-place RIT by 102 points. Four runners placed...

Author: By Lucas A. Paul, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Crimson Dominates Albany Invitational | 10/14/2007 | See Source »

...competition, held at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), featured five hours of algorithmic revelry at the end of which Harvard’s three-man team placed second, coming short of securing a ticket to the world finals slated for next March in Tokyo. The winner of the competition, MIT, correctly solved seven out of eight programming questions; the Harvard team scored four...

Author: By Kevin Zhou, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Computer Whizzes Place 2nd | 11/13/2006 | See Source »

...hung out with them afterwards at RIT, we played some pool, and ate some food. It was collegial,” he said...

Author: By Kevin Zhou, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Computer Whizzes Place 2nd | 11/13/2006 | See Source »

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