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This article focuses on the concept of reality in TV journalism, and discusses the relationship between TV journalistic production and dramaturgy in current affairs features. Reality shows and TV journalism share the point of view that the occurrences of real life are superior to the imagination--in adapted form, to be more precise. Most people's ordinary life is rather insufficient for a drama-requiring TV audience, and even worse. The dramatic episodes in real life are more than difficult to catch with camera and microphone as they take place in real time. Against the background of an investigation of the relationship between TV journalistic production and dramaturgy in current affairs features in Danish public service TV, the article author encircles why and how "reality" is an attractive TV journalistic narrative grip in solving or circumventing the problem of the disappeared present tense of news occurrences. The author focuses on the experimental reality, and ignores other kinds of "reality." The article concludes that pure experimental reality occurs only when the entire occurrence has been staged in favor of the camera, and this happens very rarely in TV journalism and then only in very soft features.