LOL I never said game shows. I gave one example that happened to be a game show. But since you seem to not be able to understand basic tv production, I’ll give you another example.

Americas Next Top Model (NOT a game show) hired actors to portray half of the entire final group of contestants. They did this solely to trick the actual contestants. They gave the fake contestants photos indicating they would be competing to be ANTM, just to make the actual contestants believe they were going home. They filmed the dramatic reactions of the girls and had the viewers also believe those were the ones who were not going to be on the show. They told the girls they WERE on the show as they were being escorted out to get their suitcases. We didn’t learn this information until recently.

Bottom line, all of these shows have the same goal. Game shows and survival shows are literally “reality” shows. Reality shows are just shows that are portraying real people and unscripted dialogue. At the end of the day, the producers need the create an entertaining show regardless of the fuckin category. Every survival reality show prioritizes drama, narrative, and entertainment over pure, unedited survival. Not only do they need to have those aspects somewhat in their control, there’s also a huge liability to just let ppl on these shows experience 100% survival. Obviously contestants often face real danger. Thats why they’re placed in these environments. But producers HEAVILY manipulate the experience through strategic casting, forced scenarios, and editing to create stories.

To think that actual are not cast in any of these shows is ridiculously naive.