- Best Reality (format) Programme - Includes non-fiction, essentially scripted programmes in which the premise, circumstances or situations are constructed or manipulated for the purpose of realising the format (with or without a competition structure).
The tv series, Sensing Murder, is classed in the television industry as a "Reality format" program.
Sensing Murder is so proficient at being a reality format program that it actually won the QANTAS TV Award for the division in 2006.
The best way of putting this into perspective is to read what the QANTAS criteria are for this type of program, so we will quote directly from the QANTAS TV Awards site:
Note the point that these programs are manipulated to realise the format. In other words, they are not fiction, but they certainly aren't factual.
We will show why the "psychics" aren't responsible for any of the alleged results (and all there is to date is alleged results - the NZ Police have received NO positive information from the psychics.) and that the program's producers and investigators are cynically exploiting the families of the victims for ratings and profit.
If you believe, even for a second, that these charlatans claiming to be psychics have any basis in reality, ask yourself these questions:
Why has no psychic ever solved a murder?
Why do psychics charge $3-99 for a phone consultation when they could be earning millions, right now!... if they were real psychics.
Why has no psychic ever been able to display psychic powers under independent investigation.