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Real People

American television show

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history of television in the U.S.

  • Milton Berle
    In Television in the United States: Reality TV

    With the appearance of Real People (NBC, 1979–84), however, the genre began to thrive. Called “infotainment” by some critics and “schlockumentary” by others, Real People presented several short documentaries per episode featuring “real people” who did unusual things: one man ate dirt, for example, and another walked only backward.…

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