Jeff Findley wrote:

Yet TV shows like The Osbornes, Survivor, Big Brother, The Bachelor, and
etc. get good ratings.

Are any of these shows still on???

When there is finally a LEO Hilton, how many reality
shows will set up shop in LEO?

Dunno. Probably at least one, for a season or three.

How many people who are bored watching an
astronaut perform an EVA would actually be interested in seeing a couple of
reality show contestants making out in zero gravity? Not to mention zero
gravity porn...

While all true, none of this has anything to do with cancellation of
ESAS. How many people were glued to their sets during the last flight
of Columbia? And yet, Shuttle had been flying and boring the public for
two decades by that point.

Yet some successful TV shows are little more than TV cameras following rich
people around.

Yes, like Richard Branson's "The Rebel Billionaire." What time is that
on, again?

Shows like this come in spurts. A few years ago, "Real World" style
reality shows about vapid morons with pathetic personal issues were all
the rage. Then Regis Philbin's "Millionaire" show was on every fifteen
minutes until the public got bored overnight. Next year it could be
"Weathermen Gone Wild" on every network. Who knows?

What makes these shows interesting isn't necessarily the
setting, but the way people interact. Zero gravity will put a bit of a
twist on how these sorts of people interact, and I'll bet someone with a
camera will be waiting to make a buck off filming non-astronauts in LEO.

Yes, for a few seasons at most (probably). How does that equate to
long-term?