If there is anyway for something to get to it'd lowest common denominator, it will. I think that point is just about to be reached with TV since the invention of Reality TV.

making andy warhols prophecy true-and also negating any chance of something creative being produced

Ruined, not ruining...

I find reality TV ....LAZY at the least. doesn't take much thought

oh yeah ...big time ...its just pure greed by the networks and the show makers ..why?... because it costs jack shit to make and air and you have absolute fools and morons who line up for blocks to make total arseholes out of them selves for nothing to a national audience of even bigger fools and arseholes who sit a bloody well watch them

Yes definely. I think they are all stupid.

Ha ha, as much as I loathe TV reality shows, they're not ruining TV and cable at all. In fact, due to the omnipresence of the Internet for the last years, reality shows and their steadfast popularity have managed to save cable television away from the looming shadow of the Internet and the interest of most people it originally started to take away from cable TV. Guess it depends what you mean by ''ruin'' though. In my opinion, not much on TV is worth watching, reality shows or anything else aside from the news once in a while, and The Simpsons, of course. :)

No. TV lost me long before it introduced Reality shows.

A load of tosh. Get rid of "Big Brother" first

Howard Beale: I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's worth, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TV's while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be.    We know things are bad - worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, 'Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone.'   Well, I'm not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get mad! I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot - I don't want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you've got to get mad.   Howard Beale: [shouting] You've got to say, 'I'M A HUMAN BEING, GODDAMNIT! MY LIFE HAS VALUE!'   Network (1976)

I think it's all a bunch of crap! I don't want to be bothered watching other people ruin their lives for money, or a chance to fame. I will sit on my couch and watch something that make me laugh.

Reality shows are ruining humanity.

Yes.