I hope so, but I doubt it.
Yahoo!: Kids reality TV series filming draws complaint from participant's mom, kudos from others
Seven years ago, when Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire? aired on Fox TV, I thought that I was watching Rock Bottom. I retrospect, I could not have been more wrong.
I still can not believe that there are so many people willing to humiliate themselves in order to be on TV.
Blogger Tracy Coenen at Sequence Inc has some excellent commentary on this:
Sequence Inc: “Kid Nation” controversy
Yahoo!: Kids reality TV series filming draws complaint from participant's mom, kudos from others
CBS reality series in which youngsters run their own town
has prompted complaints from one of the children's parents, and may have skirted
New Mexico's child-protection laws.
Seven years ago, when Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire? aired on Fox TV, I thought that I was watching Rock Bottom. I retrospect, I could not have been more wrong.
I still can not believe that there are so many people willing to humiliate themselves in order to be on TV.
Blogger Tracy Coenen at Sequence Inc has some excellent commentary on this:
Sequence Inc: “Kid Nation” controversy
It sounded interesting, but my mind immediately went to
safety issues. I wondered what parent in their right mind would send their young
child or teenager off to live with almost no supervision. There was supervision,
wasn’t there? Or were the cameras rolling while the adults weren’t allowed to
interfere? It’s not clear, and I suppose that’s part of the mystique that CBS is
hoping will draw in viewers.
As I commented on her blog, this is a breathtakingly obnoxious way to monetize "Lord of the Flies"
I really don't know what else to add to this, aside from figuratively shaking my head in disgust.
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1 comment:
You nailed it Lee! All the time my boys were growing up there were perpetually 15 minutes away from a "Lord of the Flies" scenario - five minutes if we were near the woods and sticks were lying about - and that was with adult supervision close at hand.
There's a "Piggy" in every crowd and our sinful natures are programmed to single them out ASAP. If no one gets clocked in the first episode it'll be because the producers were maintaining a VERY strong grip on the situation. I expect that there won't be a shot that runs over 8 seconds in the entire show in order to edit the final results into a vision of the "real" utopia we all know every group of kids can create.
This show will have about as much "reality" in it as a politician's pre-election promises have substance.
Watch if you want to but even pigs are more discriminating about what they consume than the average TV viewer. I'll be watching movies on my home theater. At least the plot will make some sense (Jackie Chan movies aside).
'Nuff said!
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