It feels more like reality TV or a cop show than a romantic comedy.
But as scripted television sheds viewers and work jurisdiction to other genres (like reality) and media (like the Web), they continue to lose leverage at the bargaining table.
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Comedy offers a dual advantage that genres like reality and drama do not: a cheaper price tag and the ability to repeat in syndication. (The genre's stand-alone 30-minute episodes--22 minutes without commercials--seem almost tailor-made for the otherwise distracting pre-dinner or pre-bed syndication blocks.) Though the latter is hardly the lucrative revenue stream it once was due to increased entertainment options, ailing advertisers and narrower fare, it can still deliver many millions--in some cases billions.
That level as an average is starting to look like a reality for the near future.
But unlike Americans, Britons like their reality to be depressingly, and sometimes tediously, real.
We like virtual reality headsets, but we also refuse to accept any such headsets with displays below 7-inches in size.
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Its graphics and multimedia capabilities are also designed to make new concepts like augmented reality practical for the mainstream automotive market.
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The list brings companies like augmented reality pioneer Layar to a wider public and introduces Novomer, pollution chemistry, and Serious Materials, energy reduction.
And just like after high school, it's time for the "Jersey Shore" cast to really get to work, just like the reality TV stars who came before them.
Under Agile methodology, marketers are deploying their budgets and resources more intelligently, and looking actively for the best performance against their campaigns: taking advantage of the ever expanding number of social media sites, targeting users on mobile phones, and even exploring very early technologies like augmented reality.
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That means developing tech like an augmented reality heads-up display, currently in pre-development, which uses laser projected imagery to make it look like navigational arrows actually appear on the road, not on a separate GPS screen.
This led FORBES to a deeper examination of his wealth, and a stark conclusion: The value that the prince puts on his holdings at times feels like an alternate reality, including his publicly traded Kingdom Holding, which rises and falls based on factors that, coincidentally, seem more tied to the FORBES billionaires list than fundamentals.
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The department consulted female prisoners as to whether they would prefer to have Sky Sports News, like the men, or E4 - which is run by Channel 4 and known for reality shows like Made in Chelsea, soap opera Hollyoaks and US comedies like The Big Bang Theory.
But few new products have captured the imagination of the tech-minded such as Google Glass, an eyewear-like headset that offers augmented-reality images as well as basic smartphone-like features.
"I've come to believe that reality television is like a drug, and we have built up a tolerance for the regular run of reality TV, " she said.
Lambert is best known for creating reality shows like Wife Swap and Undercover Boss.
Some entertainment gimmicks blur the line between simulation and reality, like game manufacturer Namco's audition machine.
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After all of our liberating isolation, it felt like waking up to reality from a happy dream.
And that promise has not come into reality, like I said, only 10 percent of the people.
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Distance there is not like distance in the reality as we know it.
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In the U.S. viewers with satellite television can watch its soap operas, game shows and reality programs like India's take on American Idol.
The review team was concerned about the "trivialisation" of cosmetic surgery - and took a dim view of reality programmes like The Only Way is Essex (TOWIE).
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