Citations:dramality

Noun: "a genre of television programming that blends reality TV with elements of drama"

 * 2000 — Matthew Gilbert, "We like to watch", The Boston Globe, 28 May 2000:
 * He says he thinks of the "Survivor" genre as "dramality" because it's "drama meets reality" (and not, of course, because of the pun on "malady").
 * 2001 — Mark Burnett, Survivor II: The Field Guide, TV Books (2001), ISBN 9781575001913, page 9:
 * The little dramality show that took the country by storm will return.
 * 2004 — Mike Flaherty, American Chopper: At Full Throttle, Meridian Books (2004), ISBN 0696221659, page 14:
 * "The series is going to be like The Pracice. It's a serial, a soap opera. Yeah, it'll culiminate every two or three shows with a bike, but the real story never ends." Hence Piligian's term for Chopper's cutting-edge form: "dramality."
 * 2004 — Joanne Weintraub, "Taking reality to a whole new level", Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 February 2004:
 * "America's Top Model," for instance, is not merely reality but "dramality," according to UPN.
 * 2006 — David Hogarth, Realer Than Reel: Global Directions in Documentary, University of Texas Press (2006), ISBN 0292712596, pages 116-117:
 * All of these participants work within the confines of what producers call a "dramality" show, carefully stocked with character types and packaged into highly predictable three-act story structures consisting of "arrival," "friction," and "victory" segments.
 * 2006 — Anne Becker, "Reality and other 'cool stuff'", Broadcasting & Cable, 6 February 2006:
 * He’s executive-producing a Laguna spinoff called The Hills, as well as 8th & Ocean, a new dramality series about aspiring models in Miami’s South Beach,
 * 2008 — Derek Foster, "Hockey Dreams: Making the Cut", in Programming Reality: Perspectives on English-Canadian Television (eds. Zoë Druick & Aspa Kotsopoulous), Wilfred Laurier University Press (2008), ISBN 9781554580101, page 90:
 * Thus, we can see Making the Cut and its representation of Canadian culture via its creative retelling of the hockey dream as a prime example of "dramality."
 * 2008 — Kate Harmon, The Formal, Speak (2008), ISBN 9781101002629, page 53:
 * 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 — Su Holmes, The Quiz Show, Edinburgh University Press (2008), ISBN 9780748627523, page 26:
 * Reality TV producers have dubbed the combination of drama and 'reality' as a form of 'dramality', the use of casting and structuring to 'elicit and intensify drama without actually scripting it' (Haralovich and Trosset 2004:80).

Noun: "a television program of this genre"

 * 2001 — Hal Boedeker, "'Survivor 3' May be Headed to Amazon or Africa", Orlando Sentinel, 29 March 2001:
 * Burnett called it a "dramality," a mix of drama and reality, last summer before the first series' debut.
 * 2001 — Gail Pennington, "'Boot Camp' Reality is Human (and Viewer) Suffering", St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 3 April 2001:
 * (Call the shows "dramalities," as "Boot Camp" executive producer Scott Messick does.)
 * 2004 — Larry Bonko, "Missy's New Show Keeps It Real - And Hush-Hush", Virginian-Pilot, 16 May 2004:
 * The grand diva of hip-hop and former Portsmouth resident is producing a reality series for UPN - the network calls it a "dramality" - to air later this year.
 * 2004 — Anne Becker, "Scenes From a Marriage", Broadcasting & Cable, 17 November 2004:
 * Yet neither thinks dramalities signal an end to either scripted or traditional reality TV.