Did anyone just see the documentary on BBC3?

The guy was seeing how far reality can go by "genuinely" pitching a big brother-like show where the first couple to conceive win £100,000 each.

Although he wasn't being genuine with his pitch, the high profile TV moguls who believed it to be genuine were scarily interested in the project.

1) How far could the reality TV genre go?

2) If the programme were genuine, would you watch?

lol with a title like yours i thought that was an offer!

1) How far could the reality TV genre go?

2) If the programme were genuine, would you watch?

Answers:

1) As far as they can (or think they can "get away with").

2) No. Then again, I don't watch any of these (so called) "reality" TV shows.

This reminds me of "Lapdance Island" reality TV wind-up they did a few years ago. It was for a channel 4 comedy show (I can't remember the name), and they put adverts on TV for contestant applications. The "idea" was that the contestants had to live on an island full of lap-dancers who'd constantly perform them, but yet they had to "resist temptation".

Unknown to these applicants it was all a wind-up though, and they showed the applicant interviews on the comedy show. :hihi: :hihi:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4643056.stm

BBC News article on it.

:shakes: You think *that's* bad? In the States we have reality TV shows where:-

- An adult who was adopted as a child, comes on the show and meets 5 guys - one of whom is her birth father. She then has to make them do challenges/answer questions & at the end identify who her dad is!

Fox (oh the things they get away with) was actually trying to pitch a show where couples who can't conceive fight to win a baby from a single, teen mother (who can't raise her child) -- but I think that is a little too far! :suspect: Isn't it? When I go home in the Spring, I'll lyk if it actually did get picked up. :hihi:

I'd make a baby for £100,000... do I have to be a dad though? lol

:shakes: You think *that's* bad? In the States we have reality TV shows where:-

- An adult who was adopted as a child, comes on the show and meets 5 guys - one of whom is her birth father. She then has to make them do challenges/answer questions & at the end identify who her dad is!

Fox (oh the things they get away with) was actually trying to pitch a show where couples who can't conceive fight to win a baby from a single, teen mother (who can't raise her child) -- but I think that is a little too far! :suspect: Isn't it? When I go home in the Spring, I'll lyk if it actually did get picked up. :hihi:

Its funny you mentioned that, it was refered to at length in the programme, it was called "Who's the Daddy?" or something. And fox were one of the most interested networks in the fake TV pitch

Fox will *literally* show anything and I mean anything - the network should have already been sued into oblivion, but the truth is that people will watch shows that have unsavory themes :shakes:
Re Reality shows: I was so :o to hear about 'Bum fights' ["homeless men given rewards to fight each other and perform other cruel, harmful stunts"] -- that one made me :(

Its funny you mentioned that, it was refered to at length in the programme, it was called "Who's the Daddy?" or something. And fox were one of the most interested networks in the fake TV pitch