Cable nets get real and love it. (networks finding success programming reality-based programs)
Multichannel News, May, 1998 by Pattak, Evan
Since its inception, television has been alternately hailed or hammered as the vehicle that allows viewers to escape from reality. But one of the hottest recent trends in cable television programming is inviting viewers to escape to reality. The huge success of reality programming is cable's newest - and perhaps happiest - reality.
Entire networks including The History Channel, CBS Eye on People and the whole family of Discovery Networks US. channels - are based to a large measure on the lives of real people and wildlife, or, in the case of E! Entertainment Television, on the lives of real wild people. A number of reality series and specials, although relatively new, have already received critical and popular acclaim. These include The Learning Channel's...
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