The Biggest Loser is a show is about making people lose weight in television.What this reality show is trying to prove is that people don’t need surgery to lose large amounts […]
Category Archives: Reality Television and Identity
Survivor
Reality shows are not quality programs to watch however lots of people watch them all around the world. In my opinion, if lots of people consume a product […]
Esra Erol’la Evlen Benimle
“Esra Erol’la Evlen Benimle” is one of the highest rated daytime television program in Turkey. The main theme of the show is about matchmaking. People from all ages are participating […]
Are Soap Operas innocent?
The author Terri Toles Patkin criticised some issues about reality shows and their negative impacts on people in her article Individual and Cultural Identity in the World of Reality Television. […]
Survivor Turkiye and Culture
Survivor Turkiye is a reality show where contestants are gathered on a Dominican island (2014) and divided into two groups: Celebrities and Volunteers, located in different islands.They first compete as […]
How is it effective?
I want to give example of ”Gelinim Olur musun” which is reality show, published in 2004. This show give opportunity both men and women to marry with each other.However, there […]
Mother-in-law vs. Daughter-in-law
There is a new TV show released recently called Mother-in-law vs. Daughter-in-law. A man, his mother and his wife competes with other men,mothers and wives. The questions are provocative ones, […]
Gelinim Olur Musun? – Semra Kaynana
Turkish Reality TV is not as it is in American society but shows like Gelinim Olur Musun? were more liked than the others (Fear Factor, Alaturkastar etc…). The show Gelinim […]
Biri Bizi Gözetliyor – “Big Brother” Turkey Edition
In “Biri Bizi Gözetliyor”, the Turkish version of the popular reality show “Big Brother”, contestants are put into the same household where they spend most to all of their […]
Does the Darkness Hide the Shame
Since I am not from Turkey, I preferred to write about the reality shows running in the places where I am coming from. There was a reality TV program on […]