Tag Archive: reality TV

Shy Thoughts: ‘Why do you watch reality TV?’

With the Love and Hiphop: Atlanta reunion-2 coming up, I found this old article analyzing black women and reality TV on shythoughts.com to be very relevant. “Reality” docu-series are replacing sit-coms; real-time degradation has become funny. I can’t front, I do find these dramatized shows comical (and the memes that come along with them), but that doesn’t …

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The Game signs up for wedding-based reality TV show

California rapper Game and 51 Minds Entertainment (producers of Flavor of Love) have joined forces for a new reality show, according to TMZ. It will document moments leading up to the wedding of he and his fiancee, Tiffany Cambridge. Filming for the untitled chronicle began earlier this month and has been pitched to Vh1 and MTV.

Viewers calling for a boycott of Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta

New Vh1 reality series Love and Hip Hop: Atlanta hasn’t struck a cord with every television viewer, despite drawing 3.6 million viewers with its debut last Monday. Theybf.com reports that the series, which is a spin-off of the New-York based Love and Hip Hop, was just hit with a petition calling all viewers to not …

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Demetria Lucas talks Reality TV

Demetria Lucas, author of A Belle in Brooklyn: The Go-to Girl for Advice on Living Your Best Single Life, stopped by Philly’s Power 99/WDAS FM to discuss reality TV with me earlier this month during her visit to the city for the 2012 Blogging While Brown Conference. We talked about VIBE magazine’s controversial June/July “Sexy …

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