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What has the early docudrama (e.g. Cathy Come Home) contributed to the development of Reality TV?  Discuss in the context of a contemporary reality TV show. How does Hill define reality TV? Cathy C ome H ome (1966) is a hard-hitting television drama that brought the plight of Britain’s homeless into the public attention. Hill (2005) describes reality TV as having 4 elements; non-professional actors, unscripted dialogue, surveillance footage, and candid photography. Cathy C ome H ome has none of these elements. It is fiction, the only ‘docudrama’ elements being some passive voice-overs providing statistics on housing. However Hill (2005) cites other authors who include fictional drama and even soap operas, which are not only fictional, they are often totally far fetched in the type of problems they portray. Under these definitions Cathy C ome H ome could be included in the docudrama sub-genre of reality TV. This type of docu-drama highlighting social proble...

Hills (2004) lists a number of defining characteristics of cult TV that contain similarities to the defining characteristics of pop genres (e.g. fantasy, science fiction) discussed earlier in the Pop Genres paper. Can you identify these and discuss why you think that these characteristics are repeatedly viewed as underpinning popular genres. Hills (2004) suggests that two characteristic of cult TV are that it draws on the fantastic world of speculative fiction (fantasy, horror, science fiction), and that it makes the fantastic ordinary. Certainly, if we look at cult TV shows, they could mostly fit into one of the speculative fiction sub-genres. So for example in Science Fiction there is Star Trek and Dr. Who, Game of Thrones is fantasy, and Buffy is horror. I would go further than Hills (2004). It appears to me that Cult TV not only makes the fantastic ordinary, it is flippant about it. So for example Buffy asks why she should preserve the arms of the mo...