Reality Television and SAG

Factual Questions
1

Do the participants in reality television shows (Survivor, Big Brother, The Bachelor, etc.) qualify for membership in the Screen Actor’s Guild?

2

Phew I’m just glad to know this topic was about Reality Shows and not SAGging breasts.

3

According to the SAG:

There is a similar requirement for bit players.

So if the reality show’s producers are an SAG signatory, the people in it are eligible. However, I don’t believe reality show producers are required to be a signatory.

4

Thanks for the info, RealityChuck. I didn’t know about SAG signatories, so that helped me find some better information. Still, the best I could come up with was an article from 2001 stating that at that time Survivor wasn’t a SAG signatory (though Who Wants to Be a Millionaire now is). The same article said that Survivor has a staff that includes script writers, and argued that it should become a signatory.

Do you have any idea if there’s a list somewhere of shows that are a part of SAG? I checked their official site, but it looked like you had to be a card-carrying SAG member to get to the good stuff on the site.