Reality TV A new phenomenon?
6 Complete the text with the correct form of the words
in the box. There are two extra words.
addict, broadcast, contest,
document, expect, view.
For many people reality television seems to be a
modern invention as most 1
still associate with
it the highly popular shows from the 1990s and early
2000s, such as Big Brother and Survivor. In fact, reality
Wen television is much older. The very first programmes
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in the 1940s and they've been with us ever
the best
since. One of the most influential programmes of this
type was An American Family. It was intended to be a to
showing the life of an ordinary family in the early
1970s. However, it managed to engage the audience's
emotions on a deeper level when the parents decided
to split up. Thousands of Americans gotº_ to
ine show and watched the couple end their relationship
and ask for a divorce. More than forty years ago, it was
a groundbreaking programme.​

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