The cliched reality

Whats with all the reality shows on TV these days?? Every channel seems to have caught up. Everytime I change a channel, I am welcomed by wannabe singers screeching away,
famous judges sitting royally and passing largely critical comments, contestants facing the camera and pleading for smses to save them. Most of the time, there is the usual rona dhona by the singers citing an ailing relative or hurt due to poor marks. In no way do I try to be insensitive, but tears and melodramas have become so common on TV, I just cannot stifle a yawn at these times.
Speaking of melodrama, how can we forget the favourite saas-bahu soaps, the master of tears and sorrow. The fiction is even more than a Tom and Jerry Show which appears quite sane when compared. I have never seen such active eyed, scheming women in real life. And women actually find them interesting enough to shed more tears(sob) and watch them loyally everyday.
To top it all, we have our news channels who never seem to run out of ghosts, spirits, miracles and accidents. And the sensation they try to create!! The screen blackens, letters appear in slow motion military style, a burly male's voice announces the breaking news. In the end it turns out the so called "village ghost" was actually a squirrel that used to shake the leaves a bit too harshly. In the absence of news there is always some input by comedy shows which have ceased to be comical.
Not to forget the celebrity couple dance shows....the couples just cant seem to romance enough on screen with love so pure and eternal, complete with mushy lines and dreamy eyed looks! That they break up or divorce a few months later is a different matter(or so it seems).
Truly now the only realistic shows remaining have turned out to be the evergreen cartoons!! Sigh...Indeed I would much rather have Bugs Bunny slam Daffy Duck with a board than watch Tulsi's son reemerge with plastic surgery!!