What’s the last reality show you watched that made you think “I would LOVE to change this"?

Posted by Proud_Dog_974@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 10 comments

What was it about the show that frustrated you or pulled you in? The editing? The format? The casting? The way people were treated? The fake drama?

And what changes would you make to improve it?

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galacticeyes@reddit

Handcuffed. It was really entertaining until the last episode where they just made it into a Race Across The World style game

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Any show that relies heavily on sob stories (especially random situations that happened over 10 years ago, that are totally irrelevant now)
Like everyone has hard times in life you are obviously in a much better place now and it has absolutely nothing to do with the show.

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bladefiddler@reddit

I honestly can't stand to watch them any more, any of them really.

There was a bit of a series I caught years ago, I can only recall that it was presented by Monty Don and that each episode they were doing different things like blacksmithing, pottery etc. I quite liked it because it actually focused on what they were doing and how they were succeeding or failing to pick up aspects etc.

I liked forged in fire too, as I've done a bit of bladesmithing / knifemaking so understand and appreciate the process. The editing etc of that is all a bit dubious. It is to bladesmithing what Top Gear is to driving. At least its about the process though.

Since TV basically caters to what the audience wants to see though, I'm clearly in the minority. I can't stand all of the manufactured drama and attention-whore personality types that all these shows revolve around. Early reality TV was about filming people doing interesting things, but clearly the gobshite characters creating pointless arguments proved more popular with audiences, so it evolved into the current slew of very pretty narcissists bitching about basically fuck all.

So I go on YouTube instead to seek ugly nerds doing actually cool (imo) things.

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EnjoysAGoodRead@reddit

Made in Chelsea. I just wish they'd go back to having some proper toffs on there instead of wannabe influencers!

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DameKumquat@reddit

Destination X. Billed as a mashup of The Traitors and Race Across the World - how bad could it be?

Very bad. The rules were never explained clearly, the clues to the destination were sometimes to a halfway point, sometimes to the final destination, and only sometimes to where they actually needed to guess that day. Competitions of randomness, shields and such where the audience and the cast didn't understand exactly what they did, attempts to stir up drama between competitors which looked too obviously fake.

And all edited by the teenage intern who totally missed the main plotline that should have been in the final episode - the one lass who thought they were in Paris at the end of ep1 and was laughed at had in fact been right! They brought her back in the last episode, but just had the finalists go "oh, she was right along. Oh well..."

Really frustrating. There was a good show in there trying to get out, and Rob Brydon did his best. The Jet Lag guys on YouTube did the same kind of thing much better, apart from the zero budget and filming on a wobbly phone.

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Flavourifshrrp@reddit

I never watched into be fair, it didn’t seem that appealing from what I read, get people to another country and then try and get people to guess where they are based on questions never seemed that intresting compared to things like race across the world.

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Flavourifshrrp@reddit

It’s the only reality tv show I watch the apprentice.

People used to be half decent on there, these days it’s people chasing TikTok fame.

Go back to the old version!

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