reality television

English

Alternative forms

• reality TV

Noun

reality television (uncountable)

1. (television) A genre of television programming portraying one or more people who are not professional actors and depicting their reactions to given stimuli or goals.
   • 1991, Fred D'Ignazio, "D'Iversions", COMPUTE, November 1991, COMPUTE Publications, page G–22:

     Live, Reality Television

Related terms

• reality show

Translations

television genre

• Arabic: تِلِفِزْيُون اَلْوَاقِع m (tilifizyūn al-wāqiʕ)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 真人秀 (zh) (zhēnrénxiù)

• Dutch: reality-tv (nl) f
• Finnish: tositelevisio (fi), tosi-tv (fi)
• French: téléréalité (fr) f
• Galician: telerrealidade m
• Georgian: რეალური ტელევიზია (realuri ṭelevizia)
• German: Reality-TV (de) n
• Greek: τηλεοπτική πραγματικότητα f (tileoptikí pragmatikótita)
• Hebrew: תוכנית מציאות, ריאליטי m (re'áliti)
• Hungarian: valóságshow (hu)
• Japanese: リアリティ番組 (riariti-bangumi), リアリティ・テレビ (riariti-terebi)
• Korean: 리얼리티 텔레비전 (rieolliti tellebijeon)
• Portuguese: televisão de realidade f
• Russian: реа́лити-телеви́дение n (reáliti-televídenije)
• Spanish: telerrealidad m
• Thai: เรียลลิตี้โชว์ (riallídtêe-choh)
• Turkish: reality TV
• Vietnamese: truyền hình thực tế

Further reading

• Reality television on Wikipedia.Wikipedia