Reality Television...every one's hooked
TV shows all over the world have undergone a radical change.
We all know the television industry is ruled by the TRP ratings (a scale to measure the viewership). Few years ago this ratings were led by hi-dramatic sloppy saas bahu soaps.
But no more....
Welcome to the age of reality television.
No makeups, no costumes, no scripts (not true always)......only real game...real people...real story....and real heroes.
TV viewing was never so exciting.
It all started in India with Kaun Banega Crorepati...the show which made Amitabh close to common people. Amitabh played with them, talked to them as common people and made them feel that he is also like any one of us. The show as we all know made a glorious entry in Indian Television history. And changed the lives of many people.
The show goes off air this month, due to Amitabh's illness and probably won't come back again in Indian TV.

Next, it was Indian Idol. Dreams of many talented young singers and performers were made by this show. The show has been modelled on very highly popular american tv programme American Idol. It showed that if you have it in you then you can make it to the top. It gave the platform that many talents needed to make it to the top in the music industry.

This show gave way to another famous show "Fame Gurukul". Although it could not reach to its expectation, but stll it had a decent TRP.

Now, this is the time for Zee's Sa Re Ga Ma Challenge. The show has been on air for 8 months and above and the 2 singers that are in the final combat Vineet and Debojit have made it after almost battling for 50 episodes. A true competion which is really tough with the quality of the competitors, in respect to the Indian Idol competitors.
All eyes are on this thursday's grand finale when Vineet, student of Himesh Reshammiya gharana "Lets Rock" battles it out with Debojit, student of Ismail darbar of "Yalgaar" gharana.
The show was in the midst of controversy with the voting process since there was a huge controversy when debojit got most of his votes from north east, his native.
People opposing were of the view, that since the competiton is for the hunt India's voice, so its unfair for some one to get most of the vote from a particular area.
However they forgot that even Vineet got most of the votes from North zone, since he belongs to UP. But I see this show and can tell that both of them are very good singers and deserving too.

Well with reality TV in such a rampage, mobile service providers have their share too. All these programmes have the voting options through SMS and per sms going via any service provider its adding to their bottom lines.
Such a beauty of these shows that it have a good revenue stream also. Its not only providing a good entertainment, but its also looking at the advertisers and other business partners.

I always believe good ideas always have a taker....reality TV proved me right...yet again.