Lyle's Reality: A Channel To Program

摘要

From Australia to America, he has heard it called "factual entertainment" and "emotainment" and "lifestyle programming." But to David Lyle, it's all reality TV. The Sydney native just launched Fox Reality Channel as its COO/GM, bringing to the role more than 25 years of experience developing unscripted shows around the world, along with a personal fascination with the genre. "I don't think anyone's ever left school saying, 'I want to get into reality television,"—except for him, Lyle says. "To me, getting the chance to work in reality television was a dream come true." That might sound like an unlikely aspiration, but not after you hear him describe his family life while growing up, which was TV-intensive even by contemporary standards. The television set was often on and usually tuned to U.S. fare, he says, and family talk frequently centered on the tube.