Reality TV is a genre of television programming that presents unscripted situations featuring ordinary people rather than actors. It can be defined as unscripted television that follows real people and events. Common conventions of reality TV include featuring real people instead of actors, situations that are largely unscripted though sometimes set up, and a high level of editing. Reality TV has several subgenres including docusoaps that follow people's lives, lifestyle programs focused on self-improvement, social experiments that set up situations to observe people, reality talent competitions, and reality games involving popularity contests.

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