Fox quickly backed away from the reality genre and vowed never to rerun the show.

As the reality genre should have taught us by now, many real, unscripted people aren't that interesting on camera.

Many network executives and producers in the reality genre have said they had given up hope of ever being able to protect original ideas.

But that's exactly what editors and producers in the reality genre say that they do not get.

In the reality genre, where sparks are supposed to fly, the two clicked.

Several months before, he hinted that he thought the reality genre was winding down.

After the strike began, more unscripted shows were ordered by networks, most coming from the reality genre.

In just one year, the reality genre has developed its own set of clichés.

That may be what some critics of the reality genre are hoping for.

So did almost the entire Fox network, which devoted 60 percent of its schedule to the reality genre.