Apr 02 2009
What is Reality Check TV?
Reality Check is the television showcase for alternative celebrities, cutting edge performance, the hottest underground bands and the world’s strangest nightclubs. Reality Check is an all access backstage pass, a perpetual name on the guest list and an invitation into the underground scene! Reality Check shoots live on location, showing actual performances mixed with exclusive backstage interviews, pun-filled commentary and debuts of underground films and music videos.Reality Check is also the voice of the independent entertainer. By showcasing the unusual and unexpected, Reality Check is a media outlet for artist and musicians, performers and events that are beyond mainstream media. Many acts that are household names now had their media debut on Reality Check! Reality Check’s innovative work with digital video won two Cable Access awards (1997, 1998), the San Francisco Bay Guardian Newspaper’s Best of the Bay award for Best Rock and Roll Video Show (1997) and Best Website (1999), San Francisco Weekly Reader’s Poll Award Winner (2003), a Telly Award for video editing and a prestigious JOEY award.
Reality Check has broadcast over 400 half hour episodes, 5 one hour specials, one live special and numerous clips streaming online. Reality Check footage has been seen on E! True Hollywood stories, on MTV, on ABC NEWS and in several award winning film and video documentaries
Started in 1991, Reality Check pioneered the format we now know as reality television.The hosts are the “Four Who Have Fun” - Danny, Huge, Ace and Dragon Dave. Danny is the “girl band geek” with head banger hair and a love for metal and shock rock. Huge is an artsy yuppie with a taste for art, theater and crashing society parties. Ace is a hip music industry insider with an all access pass to the biggest (and smallest) shows and tours. Dave is the resident movie star and adult entertainment industry connection. The hosts resemble the audience. This makes it easy for the audience to relate to the show. Viewers are amazed to watch four averages, yet somehow connected fellows meet the biggest stars, get backstage at the hottest shows and meet their pop culture heroes! It’s a fans point of view adventure with all the inherent pit falls and surprises. The most popular feedback from Realty Check viewers is: “I saw the show and I felt like I was right there with you guys!” The hosts are genuine insiders of each topic they cover. Their passion and knowledge for the topic or guest make each show informative and compelling.
The show is well respected by all the guests who have been on. Some celebrities will avoid the main stream press and only grant an interview to Realty Check! The random and contagious element of the show makes Reality Check TV the most unique show on television. You never know who you will see next or what will happen on the show! Will the hosts actually get backstage? Will they get the interview? Will they get tossed out? The adventure unfolds before your eyes!
Reality Check is also the voice of the independent entertainer. By showcasing the unusual and unexpected, Reality Check is a media outlet for artist and musicians, performers and events that are beyond mainstream media. But Reality Check also brings in encounters with some of the biggest names in music, television, film, art and pop culture.Everything that happens on the show is real. Nothing is staged, rehearsed or scripted. There are no ‘gotcha’ moments or skits. This is the real adventure of four friends who seek out their favorite people and places in pop culture and bring it home to the video viewer.
