Reality Shows- do you love them or loathe them?

Ilovecheese

I am not sure what you mean by reality shows. If you mean programmes like The Great Pottery Throwdown and The Great British Sewing Bee, then I love them. If you mean programmes like The Only Way is Essex or I'm a Celebrity then I don't bother watching them.

Ilovecheese. These are exactly my comfort zone watching too. I do enjoy general public, competition type shows involving a skill like the two you mention.

Portrait Artist of the Year was brilliant. Junior Bake Off this year was excellent. I always get hooked on the Masterchef programmes. RuPaul is another favourite. Going to watch Interior Design Masters.

Don't like any of the real people in their own surroundings type programmes like TOWIE, Made in Chelsea etc.

You could be right grannygravy.
It's really interesting to see others' lives play out.

MissAdventure I can remember The Family wasn’t it made my Esther Rantzen’s husband?

We used to like 'The Family'.
They just filmed the comings and goings of a family over the course of a few weeks.

I loved the first ever Big Brother. It was very gentle and sweet. None of the would be celebs and fame hunters. There was a lovely guy in there who spent a lot of time looking after the chickens. No silly games.

After that they got really stupid and fake so I didn't watch anymore.

I like gogglebox and the voice too. I am bit obsessed with four in a bed too. Why do they all fall into the same trap week after week? My husband said you may as well not bother watching the episodes and just watch the concluding one at the end of the week I can't believe they go on there as a free advert for their business and some of them end up behaving in the most appalling manner! You just wouldn't want to go and stay in their B&B/hotel would you?

I like the chateau programs too

I think it's quite nice to be able to share views on these types of programmes with family and friends.

I am not sure what you mean by reality shows. If you mean programmes like The Great Pottery Throwdown and The Great British Sewing Bee, then I love them. If you mean programmes like The Only Way is Essex or I'm a Celebrity then I don't bother watching them.

I love gogglebox and since lockdown last March I seem to have watched more trivial/reality shows than in the last 20+ years!!! The Voice, Masked Singer, Strictly and Dancing on Ice seem to have become embedded in my viewing as the GC watch them and they are a source of lots of Family WhatsApp messages whilst they are on.

I do not watch any soaps, the new dramas have been on the poor side, Finding Alice and The Drowning were both in my opinion dire.

We have watched Downton Abbey, Heartbeat, Poirot, Frost, Morse and every flipping Agatha Christie over the last year..................

My daughter and mum used to love them, too.

I actually do like them!! Sad I know! I don't like ALL of them, but I do like gogglebox!!

I quite like some of them.
I love gogglebox.

|I agree twinnytwin which is why I just about given up watching TV - I watch the news and that's about it. Does anyone actually believe these programmes are "reality"?

Loathe them. Wouldn't even attempt to watch "The Voice". Anything with so called celebrities, or members of the public on get short shrift in our house. I love a good murder mystery though.