Simple/Simplistic Story Formulas in Media

I've been thinking how simple of a formula, a structure, you see in some TV shows.

In VH1's "Behind the Music," the structure is very basic:
+ Hardworking talented youth with lot's of drive, and gumption.
+ Rise to stardom after working hard.
+ Lot's of fame and money and fast life
+ Drugs, Emotional Problems
+ Hitting Bottom (sometimes more than once, sometimes results in death)
+ Rehab
+ Dealing with life in the aftermath

It migth even be simpler than that:
+ Rise
+ Fall
+ Wisened but Damaged Redemption

Another reality show that features violent, horrible disasters and crashes:
+ Wild behavior (diving, driving, parachuting, motorcycles, partying, etc)
+ Violent, horrible crash where a body is maimed and flung and thrased like a rag doll, caught on tape
+ Person lives to tell about it - changed person. Person never dies - too bleak!