【Abstract】
In recent years, Reality TV is the most popular genre on television all over the globe. Chinese TV media also try to shape this new program, and achieve some success. Adding story elements to a reality show is a common method at home and abroad. Story -telling can lay out to a show's characters in conflict and discord .It can also make audience pay high attention to the events, fate of the participants and the results of events. Firstly, the article illustrated the definition and development of the reality show and summarized its basic features. Based on these, it described the features of the story-telling method-suspense, conflict, details, and how to implement and use it. By analyzing and comparing reality show produced between the domestic and the overseas, the article proposed some proper strategies, especially aiming at the problems of methods of story-telling in China.