Just to clarify..

This is how I break down things...

Reality TV shows

• rarely have any clear "goal"
  
• usually lacking in any type of competition, at least none of the producer's creation
• focus on a person or persons in some type of niche (former celebrity, unknown sport, occupation, etc.)
• tend to bore me to death

Examples include: Real World, Monster Garage, The Osbornes, The Anna Nicole Smith Show

Gameshows

• a television program in which a game is featured (duh)
• for money or prizes
• set of rules, whether strictly or loosely enforced
• are like candy to me

Examples include: Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy, Price is Right, Family Feud

Reality Gameshows

• a game is featured, but takes place largely outside of a studio
• rules are enforced at the producer's discretion
• tend to be more difficult, lasting days or weeks
• often follow the contestants outside of mere game situations
• focuses on the people and how they relate to each other in the game
• are also like sweet sweet candy to me
  

Examples include: Survivor, Big Brother, The Amazing Race, The Family

Talent competition shows and Dating competition shows are weird sub-genres. Weird as in you can't call them a gameshow necessarily because it's not as much as a game as a quest to find the best. In shows like The Bachelor, the hopeful women are free to leave at any time if they don't particularly like the hunky well-groomed man, and the end result is marriage, something that's not quite as simple as money or a furniture set.
In Talent competitions the rules are usually "whoever the judges/audience likes best gets some money!!!" Even specific talent shows like Idol and So You Think You Can Dance with the different themes/genres the contestants have to perform, still have free reign and inevitably are popularity contests. This is not a bad thing, but it makes them somewhat less game-like.

In addition to gameshows and reality gameshows, I also like plain games. This includes, but is not limited to: card games, word games, board games, physical games, co-operative games, social games, video games, and mind games.

So that's pretty much what you (hopefully) can expect from this blog, in addition to random posts raving about bands/movies/whatever and anything and everything in my personal life I see fit to post.

Ta-ta!