dramality
nounEtymology Blend of drama + reality. Coined by Survivor creator Mark Burnett in 2000.
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A genre of television programming that blends reality TV with elements of drama.
- Minnie had come up with the brilliant idea of spoofing a dramality show of Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, and Lindsay Lohan doing "hard time" in a primadonna version of prison, complete with diamond-studded ankle cuffs.2008, Kate Harmon, The Formal, Speak, →ISBN, page 53:
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A television program of this genre.
- Yet neither thinks dramalities signal an end to either scripted or traditional reality TV.2004 November 17, Anne Becker, “Scenes From a Marriage”, in Broadcasting & Cable: