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26 June 2004

Animal Cruelty as a Reality Show 

I'm sad to say "I told you so" in this case. Three years ago a Norwegian TV channel started a reality show called "The Farm", in which ordinary people from both urban and rural areas around the country live together on a farm without any electricity or running water and they have to raise and kill animals "the old-fashioned way" in order to get anything to eat. The producers have made sure there's a vet supervising all of the butchering, but I was appalled when I first heard of the show and I'm appalled still. Especially now, as Arts France, the animal suppliers for the French version of the show, Celebrity Farm, has sued the Endemol production company for negligence of and cruelty against their animals. Some of them died because of this.

Seriously: If people want to humiliate themselves and/or friends by entering some reality show, then I don't care, but bringing innocent creatures into the game makes it all go sour. About time we made a reality show in which all the previous reality show producers are put in a house for 365 days, with no electricity and running water and only cold pizza to eat and ordinary coke to drink. They will be given only humiliating tasks (and only once a month, so that the rest of the time they'll be bored out of their minds and will start rowing and snogging at every opportunity) and there will be cameras following them everywhere, especially in the showers and on the toilet. One by one they'll be voted off...but only into the garden, where they'll have to stay in a sleeping bag for a week before being let back into the house. There will be no winner and therefore no prize, but they'll all be famous for about 15 minutes and will never work in showbiz again (quite frankly, I don't think they'd like to, either.)

Or how about just going all the way...Dead Famous by Ben Elton.

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