Contestant

“Sizzling chemistry, jealousy, heartbreak and the unmistakeable early signs of love – and that is just in the first episode. The Bachelor Australia is back and it is bigger than ever.”(Network Ten, 2014)- more like sizzling script, hyped emotions, emphasised heartbreak and forced signs of lust for money. The Bachelor is a romance based reality television program intended on giving single people the chance to find love- or more commonly, some mild celebrity. Reality television programs based on…

William Golding’s novel The Lord of the Flies explores many themes such as the dark side of human nature, allegiances, and how these boys mirror larger society. I feel as if the producers of the popular television show “Survivor” used this novel as the framework of their show. Both Golding’s novel and the show have many similarities. When the show “Survivor” premiered, I immediately thought of the novel The Lord of the Flies. The novel is about a group of schoolboys who are shipwrecked on a…

Very few disabled bodies have been present in the show, with notable exceptions being narcoleptic contestant Jinx Monsoon of season five, and Piyah Martell, a transwoman with caudel regression syndrome who was a special guest for a mini challenge in season four. Both times, two very popular frameworks for disability were evoked; Jinx was framed in a combination…

“multi-billion dollar industry” that has led to numerous reality shows and documentaries (Cartwright). These shows have not only revealed the dramatic makeup, big hair, and beautiful dresses; they also have uncovered the not so glitzy lifestyle of its young contestants that has included the pressure put on…

televised music competition. However, the title itself is an enigma to me. It is an unidentified entity. What is the x factor, that quality that sieves out the winners from the many talented vocalists? I’ve heard the judges say “you’ve got it!” to contestants after performances meaning they imbibe the golden x-factor quality, but have not once explained to the viewers at home what that unidentified factor is. X is not merely giftedness because often times, the…

represented in constricted and stereotypical ways, those views get transferred into everyday life and cause others to judge one another. On a game show with two contestants, a series of clues would appear on a screen for one contestant and the other contestant would have to guess the word based on the clues given by the first contestant. One of the clues was…

The Bachelorette where he was the third runner-up. Ben had an interesting pool of twenty-eight women to choose from, including a pair of twins, and one women who describes herself as a “chicken enthusiast.” In the end, Ben narrows it down to two contestants, JoJo and Lauren B. In the episode prior to the final rose ceremony, Ben tells both women that he loves them. This proposed a serious dilemma, for everyone involved. During the final rose ceremony, he says his goodbyes to JoJo after she pours…

that the love of one man could be good enough for a woman to get convinced in loving him as well. This is what happened lately to celebrities Joe Swash and Stacey Solomon. On the recent episode of the Celebrity Juice, both of them are one of the contestants in this show. The Celebrity Juice is one of the hottest TV shows today. Lots of people are having fun to watch…

media. These type of shows are highly popular in mainstream media and have the power to reach a wide range of audience members and shape their ideas of certain groups of people in our society. Big Brother is a reality TV show that gathers up its contestants in a camera covered mansion where there every moment is recorded and at the end the last remaining houseguest receives the grand prize of $500,000. In July of 2000, CBS launched the first season and it averaged around 9 million viewers over…

take full advantage of this, making one look bad for another to shine just so it would fit the context, or just to make it look like there is more drama than there actually is. In the same way, it can work in favor for the contestant or against. It can be made so the contestant is portrayed as moody, showing all its moody moments, leaving off all the normals ones so the when he is eliminated, it followed the pattern used in the editing. This can also be advantageous for a celebrity like in…