The GC

Sometimes they're kind of auditioning a bit.

If we take a New Zealand example that's featured in The Reality Machine, uh, The GC back in the day-

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... that was controversial 'cause that was a bit of both, wasn't it?

The docu-soaps are more focused just on pure character drama, whereas most other reality formats have some other f- what we call format content, so you know, whether challenges or cooking a dish or doing something and then some what we call actuality, which is the living your life within the show around that.

How real it is depends, I guess, on the expectations of the producers and the participants, but I think everyone going into a reality show is sort of playing a version of themselves to some extent.

The thing that made me think of The GC after all these years is, um, the current series that's on for Kart Māori, uh, MIA-

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