"factual tv" vs. "reality tv"

[Amy West]

This is a British dialect question: I didn't spot this treated over
at Separated by a Common Language . . . .

A friend in Canterbury, Kent, just used the phrase "factual televsion
programming" in a context that led me to believe it's equivalent to
American "reality tv." Is that so or is there a difference. (And are
both labels equally misleading as to the contents?)

---Amy West

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