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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What about reality shows???

Bethenny Frankel posted on her Insta a rather compelling case for reality stars who get paid peanuts and don’t get residuals—noting reality shows became important during the last strike (in terms of generating new content).

She’s not wrong. [/quote]

Previous strikes are what gave rise to the inane reality TV shows[/quote]

And the people on them get paid to [b]live their lives[/b], not create any new, original content out of their brains like writers and actors must do to make their livings. I do admit, the [i]lower-level[/i] reality participants (not Frankel!) get crappy pay--a few thousand for a season sometimes, not commensurate with the hours they spend on these shows...[b]living their lives[/b]. But if they feel they deserve more pay, they should get organized and form their own union. End of story. They shouldn't be out there right now trying to [i]ride the coattails[/i] of the actors' strike to make their own claims. What they do and what actors do, and the training and experience actors have to accrue to do their jobs well and stay employed, are not comparable at all. [/quote]
That's a stretch. Some of the scenes in "non-scripted" reality shows may have a basis in reality, but they're recreations or producer prompted drama. They'll even do multiple takes. I'm not saying it's on par with scripted series, but production crews aren't going to waste their times following somebody living their typical lives. They're going in with a story already planned out.[/quote]

That "story" still isn't a scripted plot involving their own creativity. They should unionize if they feel they're working in ways that deserve more compensation. But it's a bad look for them to try to use the actors' and writers' strikes to make points about their own pay. That muddies the waters because reality participants (even with multiple takes and an overarching direction mapped out) are not actors, writers or other "creatives." I'm not saying they don't put in lots of hours --they do. I'm not saying they're well paid--they truly aren't. But they are not creating anything, only moving around inside a structure producers build around them. They should define and work for their own improved contracts and work conditions, rather than talking as if they share the same concerns as actors--whose training, experience, efforts and end results are very different from reality participants'.[/quote]

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