ABSTRACT
Reality TV is a wide-ranging term that covers a variety of highly popular television genres which take as their subject matter ‘ordinary people’ and/or real-life situations and events. In Freakshow: First Person Media and Factual Television (2000), John Dovey argues that we live in a confessional society and describes the phenomenon of these television genres as ‘first person media’ where subjectivity, the personal and the intimate become prioritized.
