Has the trend toward Reality TV improved the quality of television shows? – Part 3

When did we as a society decide that filming a group of people arguing, hooking up, and throwing hissy fits was a good substitute for a television series with a script, a plot, and some substance?

Reality TV seems to have taken over America, and we have allowed this by continuing to watch every week. Ratings are good for reality television how could they not be? Watching reality TV is more often than not like watching a train wreck it’s awful, but we can’t seem to look away. This means a good outcome for the networks, since reality television is cheap to produce, yet draws inexplicably high ratings from the public.

I understand that the networks and the American public are constantly searching for something new however, do we have not originality left any more? Do we no longer appreciate plot? Well-written dialog? Emmy-worthy acting?

I, for one, am disappointed in the quality of television of late. I’m upset to see television shows with potential being pushed off the air so that networks can pick up yet another reality television show to compete with reality TV on other stations.

It seems that, for the time being, we’ve lost a huge portion of network television to reality TV I just pray that this doesn’t happen to our movies as well.