Top Gear is NOT 'reality' TV, in the way that 'reality' TV is on UK TV at
least. They all rely on a succession of people desperate for their 15
minutes of fame. The participants are unscripted but the situations and
occurrences are - very carefully, for health and safety reasons at the very
least. Neither they nor TG can be considered to have a 'documentary style',
going by any documentary that I have watched. Yes, 'reality' shows have low
production costs - "line ten people up and let's see how big a fool they can
make out of themselves", incomparable with TG costs said to be £7M per
series, and that's before the Big Three have been paid. Some of stunts TG
have pulled cost a lot of money, unlike seeing how long someone can sit in a
bath of poo eating cockroaches, while pretending to be in an equatorial
jungle.
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> Reality tv: a genre of programming that documents unscripted situations
> and actual occurrences with a documentary style. Much of the criticism
> focuses on the term reality as they attempt to present themselves as a
> straightforward recounting of events. Low production costs and high
> popularity is a formula for high profits.
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