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Deri,
I would go for it! They have a similar series here across the pond called
Survivor 2. This year it is taking place in the outback of Australia. I never
watch it, but last year's series "blew all over prime time shows out of the
water" vis-a-vis viewership. If you can withstand the hardships, it should be
quite an experience.
Bobby
Deri James wrote:
> At the weekend I got a letter from the production company of a show called
> "Big Brother". This was a very popular "greenhouse show" (cameras watching
> 24hrs a day) which ran last summer. They were inviting me to apply to be a
> contestant in the new series this summer, because they wished 1 of the 9 to
> be disabled this time. In the show the contestants vote each week to nominate
> two people to be evicted, the viewers then do a phone vote to kick out one of
> them. At the end of 9 weeks the one left wins a prize.
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> This seems full of pitfalls to me. It would skew the voting. Unless the
> disabled person was ultra PC the disabled action groups would be down on them
> like a ton of bricks. And its boring sitting round for 9 weeks just
> nattering, notwithstanding missing family, work, e-mail lists!!!.
>
> What do you all think?
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> Cheers
>
> Deri
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