H8R

John Winkler

10/12/11

Reality TV H8R Case Study Group Work

After viewing H8R episode, answer the following questions. You may go to the CW site and watch full episodes.

1.What is the format of the show? How is the program developed to make the viewer watch for an hour each week?

              Celebrites go head to head with real people that don’t like them, and try to win them over. The program brings in viewers because it’s a new unique concept of taking a celebrity and an average person and putting them in face to face situations where there is huge conflict between the two.

2.Why was each person selected for the show? What characteristics do they have that would be appealing to the producers of the show? Analyze each person.

              Each celebrity is picked for the show because they have a fan base of people who hate them. And the normal person picked is someone who hates them. Producers look for celebrites who maybe disliked because of a false image that the media has given them. The normal people they look for are people who hate these celebrities for what is most likely uneducated reasons. In the episode I watched Joe Francis and Kim Kardashian were the celebrities who were confronted by “haters.” Joe Francis has a fan base of haters because of his company girls gone wild which has a reputation for exploiting women. Kim Kardashian has a fan base of haters because they think she’s too fake.

3.List 5 more possible combinations of future cast pairs.

              1) Eminem and people who hate him and/or rappers.

              2) Johnny Knoxville and people who hate his company “Jackass,” and think that he is a bad influence.

              3) George Bush and people that hate his life in politics.

              4) Paris Hilton and people who hate her lifestyle.

              5) Mike “The Situation” and people that hate him for how he’s portrayed on Jersey Shore.

4.What are some potential hooks, contests, votes, or features that you could add to the show?

              People could possibly vote at end of the show on who is the bigger hater of the two normal people on the show.

5.Are there prizes, or other elements that you could add to promote week-to-week viewing and an interactive model for viewers?

                  People could at the end of the episode vote for people that they want to see hated on and the next episode can feature them.

6.Other: