Ghostwatch, War of the Worlds and Unreality Broadcasting

Ghostwatch, War of the Worlds and Unreality Broadcasting | Mysterious Universe: "Over the last few years we’ve seen the lines between fictional and non-fictional TV blurred almost entirely due to the rise in popularity of the (baffling oxymoron) ‘scripted reality show’. When the modern reality genre was first introduced through shows such as ‘Big Brother’, viewers were encouraged to believe that everything they were seeing was spontaneous, unscripted and therefore must-see appointment viewing as ‘anything could happen’."