Why are reality shows so popular with audiences?

Why are reality shows so popular with audiences?

I feel that reality shows are popular with audiences today because it is the unpredictable medium. The audiences will always love sports, because you never know who is going to win. With football, every year the same two teams will play each other, every year the players even might be similar from year to year, but it's still breathtakingly exciting to me, because I don't know who's going to win and anything can happen in that particular game. Reality television delivers on that level, which is that it is not predictable like a sitcom, or even like a crime drama. On CSI, they are going to figure it out. In reality television, you don't know that. You don't know what's going to happen. Who's going to be portrayed, what's going to fall apart, who's going to cry, who's going to laugh, who's going to be friends. It's almost impossible to predict the outcome of a reality television show. To that extent, I think they are very popular because they satisfy the audience for that need for the unpredictable.