A fresh batch of 'real' folks

That's the great thing about TV. Every week -- heck, every day -- delivers another passel of peculiarity potential.

Especially among "unscripted" cable shows. Last week brought History's "The Legend of Shelby the Swampman," with its plunky music and gosh-golly narration heightening the title boondocks dude's "natural" (mis)behavior. There's always some new wack-a-doodle way producers try to package "real" people, to attract some smidgen-sized fragment of our much- divided attention, at a fairly thrifty production price.

Tuesday night's cable lineup includes at least four more, summarized herein to aid your viewing choices or lack of same.

"Don't try any of this stuff at home," you know. They all say that.

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