My First Blog

I think almost every channel has had their reality show. Pop idol, Big Brother etc. All of them are very popular. But that’s nothing new about them now. So TV-men try to think out something really NEW and controversial.

Channel Four was going to broadcast reality show “Make me a Muslim” (I don’t watch British TV so I don’t know the future of this reality show). But I’m shocked of the idea! People watched
“non-Muslims living under strict Sharia law for three weeks”. Participants are “mixed race couple, a gay hairdresser, an atheist taxi driver and a glamour model . . . all of whom are called upon to give up unmarried sex, alcohol and pork, pray regularly and dress modestly”.

Producer of the show said: “I wanted to make a series that had some humour in it. I’m tired of seeing guys with beards who are a bit scary. I wanted to explore how white people come to grips with a religion they’ve kind of heard of. I wanted to portray those people as human beings who go through a range of emotions.”

Or another Dutch reality show! “A 37-year-old woman suffering from an inoperable brain tumor wants to donate a kidney before she dies and will choose the recipient from among three contestants on Dutch national television, a TV network said Tuesday, claiming it wants to highlight a crisis in organ donations.”

People were supposed to decide who would survive and who would die. I thought it was God’s role!

Or in Russia! We have a reality show “Dom 2” (“dom” means house) which has been shown for FOUR YEARS without any stop! It is the longest reality show in the world! Their slogan is “Build your Love” but people go there just to become famous!

And everything is presented as something natural and with good intentions. Popularization of Islam, organ donation and true feelings. For me everything is cynical in those reality shows and I even don’t want to imagine what is going to be next!