Reality TV gone really badly mental

[votingfloater]

This is off the scale nuts, from - you guessed it - Endemol:

http://news.independent.co.uk/media/article327528.ece

Precis:

Nine "suggestible" contestants (a.k.a. idiots) are to be fooled into thinking they are being trained at a Russian cosmonaut school. They'll then be duped into thinking they've been sent into near-space orbit to carry out experiments for a few days.

This is clearly bonkers. And if any of them twig it's a wind up, it could lose Endemol millions.

[dubman]

imagine how it must feel like to think that you've been in space, if you care at all about that sort of thing.
now imagine being told by some jerk mugging for the camera that this was just one big expensive trick and that you never went to space at all, you got duped, whatever you were feeling at the time was a total lie, and it's all on television...



that's kinda where it goes wrong, imo, apart from the vacuity and depressing nature of those shows to begin with.

and then in the same article they bitch about "the Swan" being so much more ridiculous...