In Television Today, The Studio Audience Can't Just Sit There.

Offers a look at the role of studio audiences in selling television programs to viewers. Emphasis on the audience as an extension of popular reality television programs; Claim that television viewers like to see ordinary people acting spontaneously; Use of the studio audience in "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" and on a program featuring Martha Stewart; History of the use of live studio audiences; Report that the coordinating producer for the reality television program "American Idol" is in charge of picking people from the ticket line for prominent seats in the audience.