Cbs's Reality TV

CBS’s reality TV show, Hunted (2017), features 18 contestants-participants who agrees to give up their freedom to become fugitives for 28 days. Within these days, contestants are under surveillance by a team of professional law enforcement officers and the last group that survives, wins two hundred thousand dollars. Compared to other fictional TV shows, the Hunted is inexpensive to produce as there is no need for CBS to pay celebrity actors or keep the participants for more than one season. Most of these contestants are ordinary people who are looking for exposure or simply want to win the prize money. On the contrary, the combination of thriftiness, potential to attract an audience, and generate revenue is what entices the network. In particular,
Angela’s statement suggests that she is realising the American Dream that if she works hard and takes initiative to escape the hunters, she will win the prize money. I am convinced that CBS is trying to create a storyline that will appeal to working class women who have children and are struggling. From my perspective, CBS is turning this contestant's genuine struggles into entertainment for profits. In Bustch’s view, “ [workers] self-censor their work on the basis of a product image their previous experience tells them the networks will tolerate” (p.104). I truly agree with this because it seems as that CBS is indirectly saying that for this black woman to prevail, she needs to depend on the dominant class. In this case, the dominant class is the network. This compromises the producer's ability to entertain because they have to stick with what they assume will relate to viewers. On the contrary, CBS is using the game to indirectly promote middle-class values such as individualism. In the game, Angela cannot be dependent on institutional support because she is a “fugitive”, therefore, she becomes independent to break through the constraints that have been placed on them to survive the