0 If you say that you would like to be a fly on the wall on an occasion, you mean that you would like to hear what will be said or see what will happen while not being noticed:
1 A fly-on-the-wall television programme is one in which the people involved behave normally, as if they are not being filmed:
a fly-on-the-wall documentary
The programme was a "fly-on-the-wall" documentary and showed fishermen and enforcement officers going about their business and speaking frankly.
It was a fly-on-the-wall documentary series, seen by many as the precursor to reality television.
The fly-on-the-wall series also follows their lives as they produce and release their debut album and launch themselves into the fashion world.
The show used a mix of fly-on-the-wall style observational scenes, informal interviews, home movies, and other material.
The documentary is described as a fly-on-the-wall film vrit.
The fly-on-the-wall footage is intercut with subsequent interviews with staff, patients and relatives giving their perspectives and background on the events shown.
The format of the show was mostly fly-on-the-wall style, in that the hosts rarely acknowledged the existence of the microphone.