Reality TV facts

• UK show Strictly Come Dancing sold to 38 countries and had a peak audience of 13.3 million vieweds which was almost a 50% audience share
• It costs SGD$750,000 to make one episode of a reality TV show compared to SGD$3 million for a sitcom
• More than 3000 people auditioned for Afghan model in 2009. Only 10 were women
• 1 in 10 UK teenager would abandon their education to be on reality TV
• Susan Boyle’s audition on Britain’s Got Talent in 2009 was watched by over 120 million people on YouTube
• 1 in 4 show on US primetime is a reality show
• Gordon Ramsay said expletives over 80 times in one episode of Kitchen Nightmares
• In 2010, Malaysia casted for Imam Muda where contentents were pitted in tests of Islamic theory, and challenges included counselling teenagers, preparing corpses for burial and Quran reciting. The top prize was a new car, a job as an Imam and a scholarship in Saudi Arabia
• Reality TV actually started on the radio in 1947 with Candid Microphone
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