Entertainment
With The Bachelor and The Masked Singer facing COVID-19 hiccups, reality TV takes on new meaning – ABC News
The genre’s popularity prompts deeper questions about what reality TV, from cooking shows to dating contests, offers us at a time of social distancing.
To some, reality TV has been a means of escape during these strange times.
Australians love the genre and it has dominated the major network schedules and the ratings in the two decades since Popstars and the first season of Big Brother.
But the distraction this kind of TV offers has been threatened as we’ve come to realise that nothing is (yet) immune to COVID-19, including television production.
The eighth season of The Bachelor, currently airing on Network Ten, will soon start showing date…
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