Reality shows

are these'reality shows' being showed on TV these days for real? the participants take part in these shows after a lot of sweat and grime.they are then subjected to one of the most sadistic aspects of these shows called 'elimination rounds'. where the participants one leasts expects to be eliminated get done so, prompting us to suspect favouritism and foul-play, putting the entire contestants through mental agony, which is there for all of us to see, the so called judges seated there behave like tigers which have tasted blood.