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Actuality tv has usually obtained a foul rap, however Emily Nussbaum—who acquired a Pulitzer Prize, in 2016, for her work as The New Yorker’s TV critic—sees that the style has its personal historical past and craft. Nussbaum’s new ebook “Cue the Solar!” is a historical past of actuality TV, and roughly half the ebook covers the period earlier than “Survivor,” which is commonly thought-about the start line of the style. She picks three formative examples from the Earlier than Time to debate with David Remnick: “Candid Digicam,” “An American Household,” and “Cops.” She’s not attempting to get you to love actuality TV, however somewhat, she says, “I’m attempting to get you to grasp it.”
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