A flexible format
and absence of a script or time-consuming rehearsals have made
TV reality shows the stock-in-trade of production houses. Amar
Nath Wadehra and Randeep Wadehra
look at how
participants, especially children, are becoming victims of these
programmes
THOSE were
comparatively sedate, single-channel days with occasional
ripples in the pond-sized Indian mediascape, like introducing
colour television on the Delhi Asian Games eve, and adding a
channel for regional telecasts, which kept us enthralled.
Frankly, Doordarshan’s monopoly did not irk most of us since
we were blissfully unaware of the pleasures of channel surfing.
Victims of
vote
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