On 1/26/06, Daniel Davies <d_squared_2002 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Doug forwarded a profile of some "confident young man" or other which contained
> this line:
>
> >>Never mind that reality shows are about as
> European as Burger King<<
>
> Unless you count MTV's "The Real World" as a proto-reality show (which I don't,
> not really, it didn't use hidden cameras and the participants knew when they
> were being filmed), arguably the first reality show was "Big Brother", which is
> pure European and was invented by Endemol of the Netherlands. Reality shows
> have always been very popular in Europe; people only think of them as American
> because they're vulgar.
>
> Actually, even if you count "The Real World", it was predated by "Sylvania
> Waters" which was a coproduction between the BBC and an Australian network.
>
> best
> dd
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