I’ve googled it without success. Are they normal actors and it’s just filmed differently, or are they real people? And is it a script or off the cuff? It’s this Chelsea thing I’m on about. I dare say I am a week or two behind. Just an explanation will do.

isn’t it just code for cheap and cringe worthy?

Maybe. Just watched a bit of it and don’t really get it. Probably not aimed at me mind.

As far as I know real people and real(ish) situations, but some (most?) scenes are (re-)staged and scripted.

So, real people playing themselves, acting out alternative versions of stuff that may or may not have really happened to them.

slainte 🙄 rob

I am strangly [sic] addicted to The only way is Essex 😳

I don’t like TV i have no idea how i first saw this trash, but i like it!

I don’t understand it…but i like it…

There i’ve said it 😳

Reality Drama generally = cheap, repetitive, mind numbingly boring fly-on-the-wall type docu soaps

Reality drama means: