Reality TV shows Since their firs appearances, reality and talent TV shows have created great controversy, as they claim to be showing real people living their normal lives, or behaving as they normally do, but this is clearly not true. Not only they show intentionally casted excentric people, but also they are put in rather artificial situations. There are some who claim this kind of shows are harmless and to think otherwise would be ridiculous. These people defend reality TV shows by saying that they are mere entertainment and shouldn’t be taken seriously, just like anyone will believe a science fiction film to be true, or a soap opera you see on TV. If reality shows showed mediocre, standard people having their regular lives, they wouldn’t be so fun. On the opposite, there are lots of people who believe that young audiences –the most influenced by this sort of programmes– tend to be more naive and not to understand the artificiality of these shows. I strongly agree with this opinion. I believe the most harmful aspect of the so called “reality” shows is their deception: they claim to be real when they are not, and teenagers believe it. They look up to the participants and consider them to be model roles, or to think that they should behave the way they do, because that is the reality. To sum up, I believe both opinions are true. Obviously reality shows are artificial in order to be entertaining; if they were truly real, they would be boring. Nevertheless, I also think that they are dishonest, and should not claim to be showing reality, because that can confuse some viewers.