Animal Planet shows are really all fake???

**readies the torches, pitchforks, and boiling acid**

Release the Kraken!!!

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Originally Posted by Mephibosheth1

Release the Kraken!!!

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Which kraken are you talking about, Clash of the Titans or Pirates of the Caribbean?


Reality shows are in fact staged. There was a behind the scenes done on a few shows, notably The Simple Life and one of the house wives shows. The "real people" were fed lines and well before shooting different scenarios were thought up. Otherwise it would be an hour long show of them shopping.

Then Kraken is far older than yer modern movies! The Kraken is ancient and forever...Aye, she be a mystery...

...killjoy. :P

Gatorboys is fake?
Some of the personal stuff seems staged or re-enacted but im cool with that.
Not cool if they release and recapture and paint a BS story.

Reality TV is as real as WWF. The bottom line is they are cheap to produce and they are staged. I believe Irwin was the real deal. But now everything is modeled after his sort of in your face style, and the only way that is possible is to fake it. The bottom line is to keep you watching. If your not watching, the sponsers aren't getting their products looked at.

It's entertainment not reality.

Reality-style shows are all fake to some extent. I would say River Monsters is the only show on AP not faked. Survivrorman wasn't faked. And of course, the old documentary style shows like Croc Hunter and Jeff Corwin were not faked.

Almost all of those newer shows are faked, to what extent is what varies. Think about it like this: would they really sit with somebody for 8+ hours everyday just to get action? No. They stage stuff so that way all we see is the action. It's a shame but how many people would really watch a show if there was no action. Nobody, because it would put them to sleep. Now many shows way kill it with action so it looks obviously fake. Then other shows like River Monsters may have fake parts, but for the most part it was actually real.

I used to like lizard kick towing, because it was funny, though I knew it was fake it was still ok. Then they just stepped to a new level of fake and the show became really stupid.

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Originally Posted by Neal

how many people would really watch a show if there was no action. Nobody, because it would put them to sleep.

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MonsterQuest? Just guys building traps and elaborate contraptions to trap/kill something that doesn't exist. Nothing ever happens...

But I digress, people still watch it.


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