TV was worth something when it was live. Now the only live shows are sports and news. The dramas don’t cut it since the actors aren’t acting and need to develop personalities outside TV which is why we follow the real-life lives of TV and movie actors with such attention even though they are also scripted to a large degree. Catch them shopping or otherwise having real lives and their fans go wild. We don’t need to analyze commercials since even five year olds know they are phony.
Their lives were scripted even in Hollywood's golden days -- even more so then.