If it was real life, no one would watch it

Reality TV vs. everything else.

"Tom Logan, head of programming at The Factual Channel, said: 'Our viewers don’t understand the difference between real events and speculative twaddle claiming Nostradamus shot JFK.

“'Also real life can be extremely depressing, which is why I have just cancelled Holocaust: The Ultimate Inhumanity and replaced it with Auschwitz: Secret Nazi UFO Factory?”

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/arts-entertainment/documentary-channels-drop-factual-subjects-2012070533123


(Aren't "reality" and "television" contradictory?)