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December 13th, 2005
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Space Cadets
December 13th, 2005
Here’s the pitch: UK Channel 4 picks a bunch of thrill seekers for Space Cadets, a reality show in which they get blasted into space for a week!
Or not. Actually, they get flown to Suffolk (decked out like a Russian cosmodrome) and then put in a fake spaceship. Now we get to watch the suckers bounce around believing they’re in space (with “gravity generators” to explain the lack of weightlessness). Oh, the schadenfreude, right? Truly a horrible idea for a TV show—clearly Endemol UK (the creators of “Big Brother”, among other things) believe it’s reality TV gold.
Except that the joke’s on us: All of the cadets are actors. Who are the suckers now? It’s like someone reversed the polarity on reality TV. [from /.]
Update: As always, Rod (Royal Defender of All Things British, Or, At Least, Those Things Worth Defending) sets me straight (see the comments).
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