My first paid writing gig was as a blogger for a now defunct website which was bought out by a larger site than the big whale site.
We synopsizes all the great reality shows before people were doing it. Survivor. Amazing Race, Big Brother, The Bachelor, etc. And we figured out that a lot of these shows HAD to be semi scripted and that casting directors look for certain types of people to put on every show. Like the good girl, the bad boy, the girl who is a witch, the geek, the one who is a goof ball , the one who is as dumb as a box of rocks but has a heart of gold.
This author of this piece hasn’t been watching reality TV since the late 90s. Of course it’s ALL semi scripted if not totally.