Quote Originally Posted by Kenji Longaway View Post
Unless they reherse what they are goint to do before the show, it is reality T.V., because it is real. Anything real is reality T.V.

And Renmiri? It doesn't matter WHEN it came out. Think about how many reality T.V. shows existed before Survivor. THE REAL WORLD for instance.
Meh. It's sort of silly to get into semantics here. It's like calling a football game "reality TV". While anything that's unscripted could be considered reality TV I suppose, the genre "Reality TV" is usually considered not to include sports or documentaries IMO. I'd bet "Everest" falls into the documentary category, to show what goes into an expedition to climb the world's tallest mountain. Hundreds of people, of many kinds, climb it every year without any tv cameras rolling at all. The particular expedition that is the primary focus of "Everest" happened to have cameras with it to document an ascent.

And the disaster would have happened, to what extent nobody can say for sure, even had the cameras not been there filming. There were several expeditions that otherwise would have had nothing to do with the Discovery show except for the fact that they happened to be on the mountain at the same time.