Reality shows

Program such as “jakten på kjærligheten”, “71 grader Nord” and “Paradise hotel” have increased the popularity of reality shows in Norway.

“Jakten på kjærligheten” is a reality program about 4 farmers who is looking for their one big love of their life, and we get to follow their quest from the beginning. They receive letters from people all over Norway and after sorting out they will pick out 4 women or men who will stay at their farm. Every week they send one person home. He or she is voted out by the farmer himself after his evaluation. At the end they are standing with the one candidate who, during these past weeks, has fallen in love with the farmer and wants to spend the rest of her or his life with. According to my mind it is mostly the older generation who likes this program, I would reckon an age group from 30 to 50.

“71 grader nord” is a wildlife adventure program and quite different from “jakten på kjærligheten”. In this program it is an advantage to be in good shape, because they are going from the southernmost point of Norway Lindesnes to the northernmost point of Norway Nordkapp. They got to fight through tough challenges and walk, cycle or they use other ways to getting there, for example skiing. They got a time schedule they need to be in the different places, and if they manage to do so, they get a reward. Every week someone gets eliminated by the rest of the group and in the end, it is just one person who makes it first to the finish line. The winner gets a brand new car and a cottage. This is a program for both the young and the elderly generation.

“Paradise hotel” is a program where 10 participants, which are often young aged, from eighteen to thirty, who gets sent to a luxury hotel in Mexico and there they are basically just partying and having fun for ten weeks. This is a program which involves partying, sex and a lot of drama. Many participants find each other and have fun and a lot of compromising feelings of the people and it creates a lot of drama. Participants will find a partner they live with and each week there will be a ceremony which one of the participants has to leave the hotel. In this program the participants have to use tactics to be able to overcome the voice of the other participants and certain 2 people stand behind the same person, the person who has the 2 people behind have to choose one of them. Here is a good idea to find a partner they can trust. The pair who is left in the end wins a lot of money. “Paradise hotel” is probably the program that has received the most criticism. Because parents do not like their children watching ordinary people having sex and heavily drinking on TV.

These 3 programs are very different in character. One of them is to find true love, the other one is to experience an adventure and see the lovely nature of Norway, and the third one is for partying, fun and try to win a lot of money.

The one thing that is similar must be that the shows contain ordinary people, who participate and all of the shows has many viewers.

I like reality shows myself because it`s exciting to see “ordinary” people on TV where they try to win something.
My favorite programs are those where the participants need to answer questions to win money, like “vil du bli millionær?”
However, last year I watched “Paradise hotel” even I thought it is a stupid show. But it is a little fun to see people make fool out of themselves.

Jakten på kjærliheten.

Paradise hotel

71 grader nord

- Silvia Nilsen