Animal Planet shows are really all fake???

[4theSNAKElady]

I know that when Steve Irwin did his shows, the camera crew would follow him around for hours, even days, until he came across animals, and then they would start filming. Thats REAL. I think thats the case with River Monsters too. But to have a show, thats 100% made up and fake, it loses its charm and enertainment value when you find out its 100% made up. As for wrestling, it will never lose its entertainment value...fake or not. Even faked, those wrestler guys still do get hurt.

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[sho220]

How are the fishing and hunting shows faked??

Yeah...I'm not sure how you "fake" a fishing show. You can certainly edit it to cut out all the dinkers they catch and only show the bigger fish, but I wouldn't call that "fake"...unless they have scuba divers down there hooking the fish on. And I'm sure Bill Dance fishes on what mostly seems like private (well stocked) ponds and lakes...again, not really faked, just trying to make for good tv...

I always just assume anything called a "reality show" is automatically not real...

edit: and I've never thought of River Monsters as a reality show...more of an entertainment/documentary type of show...

[dr del]

I hate to break it to you but the older shows were often faked too.

Even back in the day of Gerald Durrel they were releasing glass lizards off camera for him to find and catch on camera.

[Buttons]

Yeah...I'm not sure how you "fake" a fishing show. You can certainly edit it to cut out all the dinkers they catch and only show the bigger fish, but I wouldn't call that "fake"...unless they have scuba divers down there hooking the fish on. And I'm sure Bill Dance fishes on what mostly seems like private (well stocked) ponds and lakes...again, not really faked, just trying to make for good tv...

I always just assume anything called a "reality show" is automatically not real...

edit: and I've never thought of River Monsters as a reality show...more of an entertainment/documentary type of show...

One of my employees dad is Italo Labignon of Canadian Sportfishing. I was on the show when I was a pre-teen. There's definitely heavy heavy editing done but fishing shows are not fake.

[Darkbird]

Lol, most of what you people are saying maakes me glad I stopped watching tv a few years ago. the internet was more fun and informative, once you sift through the trash. from what little I see and what i hear, tv is now mostly trash. every time i try to watch something the wife or kid is watching, I usually end up walking away shaking my head. Oh well, back to the collection of Star Trek episodes i guess.

[Mephibosheth1]

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really though, I don't much care if they edit the footage to make it look like the reptiles are being found very 5 minutes. When I watch a show like that I don't really watch to see "I wonder what the actual animal density of the area being explored is...I think they're pasting the clips together." In the hunting and fishing aspect, it doesn't matter to me again how long it's shown on air that they look for the animal; even in a stocked private lake crappy fishermen don't get fish and crappy hunters don't get big bucks.

What would bother me would be releasing the animals offscreen to be caught, etc. that's why I feel so sad when I hear about these kinds of things, because it really drops the "reality" of everything.

While we're discussing this, does anyone know if pawn stars is faked too?? My faith in them, American Pickers, and Ice Road Truckers had been shaken due to the revelation of the Animal Planet stuff...

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really though, I don't much care if they edit the footage to make it look like the reptiles are being found very 5 minutes. When I watch a show like that I don't really watch to see "I wonder what the actual animal density of the area being explored is...I think they're pasting the clips together." In the hunting and fishing aspect, it doesn't matter to me again how long it's shown on air that they look for the animal; even in a stocked private lake crappy fishermen don't get fish and crappy hunters don't get big bucks.

What would bother me would be releasing the animals offscreen to be caught, etc. that's why I feel so sad when I hear about these kinds of things, because it really drops the "reality" of everything.

While we're discussing this, does anyone know if pawn stars is faked too?? My faith in them, American Pickers, and Ice Road Truckers had been shaken due to the revelation of the Animal Planet stuff...

Pawn stars is most certainly a fake. You cannot go in the store and see any of those guys working. They only come down to film episodes and everything is set up. They choose which people with which stuff can come in, an then they act.

The store really exists, and they really are a pawn shop, but the people you see on tv are basically prescreened actors with pre approved merchandise.


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[rascal_rascal_99]

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.

Or Finding Bigfoot...I love that show, it's the best new comedy on TV in years! Especially the episode they filmed over near Knoxville TN when they brought in the hog callers to try to help lure in a squatch...and there was also the guys story about the young one he saw on his picnic table outside that beeped at him...that one had me in tears laughing at them so hard.

[Buttons]

Space
The Final Frontier
These are the Voyages.....




really though, I don't much care if they edit the footage to make it look like the reptiles are being found very 5 minutes. When I watch a show like that I don't really watch to see "I wonder what the actual animal density of the area being explored is...I think they're pasting the clips together." In the hunting and fishing aspect, it doesn't matter to me again how long it's shown on air that they look for the animal; even in a stocked private lake crappy fishermen don't get fish and crappy hunters don't get big bucks.

What would bother me would be releasing the animals offscreen to be caught, etc. that's why I feel so sad when I hear about these kinds of things, because it really drops the "reality" of everything.

While we're discussing this, does anyone know if pawn stars is faked too?? My faith in them, American Pickers, and Ice Road Truckers had been shaken due to the revelation of the Animal Planet stuff...

All reality tv is fake (scripted) in some way or another.

[Mephibosheth1]

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