On the new TLC series Now Who's Boss? Jonathan Tisch, CEO of Loews Hotels, goes to work in one of his own hotels as a room-service waiter and delivers a meal to a guest from Belgium. The Belgian is unfazed to see that he is being videotaped. In America, he must assume, you always get a reality-TV crew with dinner.
Before long, he may be right. Now that Donald Trump's The Apprentice is the season's highest-rated new show, reality TV is discovering what sitcoms have known for decades: people love to watch other people work. In the real world, workers may...
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