Reality TV > Big Brother producers resurrect Nazi Germany
May 29, 2007
Written by: Josh Karp
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This has got to go down as one of the significant disasters in the already checkered history of reality TV. The producers of the British reality series Big Brother are refusing to inform one of the current show participants that her father has passed away. Show contestants are sequestered in a mansion, forced to form alliances, and fight for their own personal fortitude, much like a more civilized version of Survivor. The issue at hand here is that no one in the house is allowed to have any sort of contact with the outside world during the production cycle. Each participant signs a contract legally barring them from sending or receiving info from anyone outside the walls. The producers appear to be taking this contract to an absolutely obscene level, refusing to tell poor Emma that her father passed away over a week ago. This is absolutely ridiculous. These people should not only be forced by a court of law to divulge this info immediately, but they should be held up on criminal charges. What charges, you may ask? I have no idea. I'm not a damn lawyer. I'm just a little angry that the confines of reality television have been taken to such an extreme, fascist, and inhumane level.
