[lit-ideas] Re: Decisions, decisions

From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 21:40:23 EDT
I..I.....I........
 
it takes a lot to render me wordless.
 
Julie Krueger
thank you, I think
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Monday, October 25, 2004, 1:53:04 AM,  JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx wrote:


JE><<That  reminds me.  German TV is setting up a Truman Show town;
JE>they hope  people  will  live there for years.  A psychologist
JE>disapproved,  she  thought they  might have problems when they
JE>encountered  the "real world".>>>

Jac> 'Scuse me???  More  details?  Explain please?!  If you are saying
Jac> what I think  you are....

I began to wonder if I'd dreamed it!  Or if I'd slept  through the
winter and it was April...

I can't get you the url now as  my browser's address bar's gone awol
(and The Guardian doesn't know me if I  use my other browser -- nor
does the NYT), here's the  piece:



>Big Brother's next step: show that lasts  forever

>Mike Leidig Saturday October 23, 2004 The  Guardian

>Germany's version of the Big Brother reality TV show will  take a
>giant leap next spring with the opening of a small town mimicking  The
>Truman Show concept.

>In the Jim Carrey movie, a man called  Truman is
>unwittingly the subject of a 24-hour TV programme that monitors  his
>every moment for the gratification of a worldwide  audience.

>In the city being built outside Hamburg, the only  difference will be
>that contestants will be willing  participants.

>There will be a forest, a town square with shops and a  church,
>schools and businesses. Contestants will, it is hoped, live there  for
>years, falling in love, going to school, even getting married.  The
>producers hope to lure in businesses to employ them, as well  as
>teachers and doctors.

>Producer Rainert Laux said: "We hope  couples will get pregnant and
>family groups will interact with all the  usual family frictions."

>He said they would handpick the "very best  group, all unemployed" to
>live in what will be a cross between the Truman  Show and Disneyworld.

>"They can do exams there if they want to go to  school, learn
>languages or any other type of professional examination for  a career
>and eventual employment."

>The city will be as  realistic as possible so that contestants have no
>problems reintegrating  into society. But broadcaster RTL2 was unable
>to provide details on  financing.

>Celebrities will occasionally appear, but the main group  of
>contestants will remain "for decades," according to Mr  Laux.

>Producers of the show say the present format has had its day.  The
>plan now is for an entire community to be scrutinised around  the
>clock. As long as such a show draws viewers it will remain on  air.

>The idea follows on from an experiment in America by Fox TV  which
>introduced Forever Eden, in which contestants were plonked on  a
>Caribbean island. The show was intended to be indefinite but  was
>cancelled in April after three episodes were aired.

>By  contrast, the reality TV world depicted in the Carrey film is a
>dark  fantasy in which unassuming salesman Truman Burbank grows up in
>a city  that is actually a vast studio without knowing that his every
>action is  broadcast to the outside world.

>RTL2's idea, provisionally titled Big  Brother Forever, according to
>makers Endemol, is not quite so ambitious.  Its city will afford fans
>of the show visits to the community to see the  residents.

>The show is planned to start next March. It will begin on  a
>relatively small site, but if it proves successful, the plot  will
>expand and contestants will be steadily added.

>Insiders  say the show will initially be broadcast 24 hours a day on
>the internet,  with highlights on television seven days a week. If
>viewer interest is  strong, the broadcasts will go live around the
>clock.

>The  project will seek dozens if not hundreds of contestants but will
>follow  the central tenets of the Big Brother: sex, difficult
>situations and the  eternal fascination of human nature.

>Media psychologist Jo Graibel  voiced concerns that people who stayed
>for any length of time would find  it hard to adjust to the "real
>world".



-- 
Judy Evans,  Cardiff, UK    
mailto:judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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