71 Grader Nord is an adventure reality TV-show much like the American reality show called The Amazing Race, the only difference being that in The Amazing Race the travelling goes worldwide while on 71 Grader Nord you travel from the most southern part of Norway which is Lindesnes and fight your way all the way to the most northern part of Norway which is Nordkapp. The purpose of this show is most likely to see how much you can push the human body, and people actually enjoy seeing people struggling to get up a mountain or carrying logs for several kilometers.
Paradise Hotel is a reality tv-show where the contestants stay at a luxury hotel in Mexico trying to be a part of the last couple standing. It has everything you could ever imagine. Drinking, sex, partying, mind-games, being liked and finding someone you can trust to stay with you until the end to be able to win the three hundred thousand kroner prize. The people that are on the show are generally very young between the ages of eighteen and twenty five and very “fit”. The show has been pretty controversial because of all the drinking that is going on and due to the behavior of these young people, the debate is whether they can jobs after this because of the employers might have seen the show and not want to hire them because of what they do during their free time. The reason this show is on TV is because they want to appeal to the younger generation, who are the ones who watch the most TV and they enjoy seeing sex and drinking.
The show Jakten På Kjærligheten comes from the British reality show “Farmer Needs A Wife”. The show is all about a single farmer trying to find himself/herself a new husband/wife. They bring four potential partners to a farm and they all spend a few weeks at the farm and each week one partner is eliminated until the last one remains. As you can probably tell this show is a Romance show. The purpose of this show is to show to people that anybody in the world can find true love, even though most of the relationships on the show never last.
I do like some reality TV-shows like The Amazing Race, because it has some excitement to it and is completely real and nothing is staged, but in reality shows like Paradise Hotel, there are so many things that are staged, which sort of takes away the “reality” for me.
