{"id":886,"date":"2003-04-07T08:18:33","date_gmt":"2003-04-07T08:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/reality-tv\/"},"modified":"2003-04-07T08:18:33","modified_gmt":"2003-04-07T08:18:33","slug":"reality-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/reality-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Reality TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The struggle to produce an original reality-TV show was becoming increasingly difficult for the BBC. They took Big Brother, crossed it with Popstars and got Fame Academy&#8230;which didn&#8217;t really cut it. They added celebrities&#8230;.but still. After that where do you go ?<br \/>\nThank Bush then for the Iraq Conflict! What could be better than 24\/7 footage of <i>real<\/i> shooting, and <i>real<\/i> dead bodies. Not even Endemol (the creators of big brother and just about every other realityfest) could swing a snuff series &#8211; but thanks to the free market, we now have one! Not only that, but one where the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/media\/video\/39060000\/rm\/_39060081_attack18_simpson_vi.ram\">main characters<\/a> can get seriously wounded, or even killed. They must have been dancing fucking jigs in television centre when war was declared. Like that episode from &#8220;The Day Today&#8221;, the graphics, sets, and speeches were all ready for action as soon as the shells started exploding.<br \/>\nThey even have the big brother style &#8220;day number&#8221; on screen. All that&#8217;s missing is a geordie voiceover:<br \/>\n&#8220;Day 18, and John simpson is in the diary room after the daily challenge, when Kamaran was blown to pieces by friendly fire.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The struggle to produce an original reality-TV show was becoming increasingly difficult for the BBC. They took Big Brother, crossed it with Popstars and got Fame Academy&#8230;which didn&#8217;t really cut it. They added celebrities&#8230;.but still. After that where do you go ? Thank Bush then for the Iraq Conflict! What could be better than 24\/7 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}