Formats: The Next Generation

When London, U.K.-based Castaway Television's Survivor format became the must-see U.S. show of the summer of 2000, Friends sitcom star Jennifer Aniston quipped to a reporter: 'It isn't real television.' As one of the best recognized faces on one of U.S. network television's most successful titles of the '90s, Aniston has influence, and her ironic lament showed that reality formats had arrived and were a force to be reckoned with.

November 1, 2002

When London, U.K.-based Castaway Television's Survivor format became the must-see U.S. show of the summer of 2000, Friends sitcom star Jennifer Aniston quipped to a reporter: 'It isn't real television.' As one of the best recognized faces on one of U.S. network television's most successful titles of the '90s, Aniston has influence, and her ironic lament showed that reality formats had arrived and were a force to be reckoned with.