Ok something new.
We mostly moan about reality tv being intrusive and boreing to view.
So id love to see what you lot would come up with if you was a tv producer.
Make a tv programme right here right now see what you can create.:razz:.


I think id go with this.
Big blubber, instead of big brother.
12 housemates all overweight all wanting to be slimmer.
Must live on what food is in the house, certain portion sizes ect or have to do a forfeit.
Also have chocolate and calorie laden food around just to put a spanner in the works.
Same nomination process as big bro, same public vote ect.
The winner gets a cash prize OR cosmetic surgery to enhance there looks after loosing weight on the show.
Id love to enter it lol.
Over to you lot let your imagination go overboard.:rolleyes:

Mine is more like stealing a TV prgramme format. It was a show that ran for a few series on British TV called 'The Mole'. Ohh it was so good.

There were some peeps, about 12 I think, but they weren't in a house all together or anything, they travelled about with each other to different locations, stayed in different hotels etc. Everywhere they went, they had to complete a challenge. This challenge could be anything - from abseiling, to a huge game of hide and seek throughout a whole town, to solving puzzles, to spending the night in a haunted house - basically anything you can think of. If they completed the challenges successfully then a set amount of money would be put in the pot. If they failed, they wouldn't get the money. Simple as that.

Or was it? The evil aspect was that one of the players was a mole, put there to sabotage the efforts of the rest of the team. Only the producers of the programme knew who the mole was. He or she would get instructions on how best to sabotage the challenges. The other players would have to guess who the mole was, so obviously they couldn't be too obvious in their sabotages, and would sometimes help the group to avert suspicion. Each week there was an elimination - the group would have to answer questions on who they thought the mole was, such as 'who was sitting next to the mole at dinner' or 'what month was the mole born in'. The person who got the most of these questions wrong would be eliminated. Of course, the mole would never be eliminated cause they would know all the answers. The other players would sometimes pretend to be the mole, obviously sabotaging a challenge, so that the group would think it was them, answer the questions with them in mind and therefore be eliminated.

So, that's how it went. The last player won all the money. There were also clues each week in the show put there by the programme makers to hint to the viewers who the mole was. These clues were without exception completely impossible to solve, lol. I LOVED this show. There has never been a gameshow with so much intrigue, backbiting, tactics, gameplans etc. And Channel 5 axed it because they said it was too trashy for them to show. I almost fell off my chair when I heard that! The best think they ever showed on that channel and they thought it was beneath them!!!

I think the next year they had that awful cowboy show where a woman had to guess which of the cowboys were gay, and which were straight... omg. Trash TV at it's worst :(

Bring back The Mole!!

Well this isn't my idea but I'm not sure if you are going to see it in the UK or anywhere else. Starting tonight there's a new [rogramme on called Kid Nation. They basically lock 40 kids fropm 9-13 years old in an old western town and you watch how they build it up and live.

The kids are seperated into teams and the teams must complete tasks in order to stay in the town. Now there are no adults or nothing telling them what to do. No contact with their famillies or anything. It's sort of like big brother but I think it will be interesting because we're talking about children. Will be funny to see what sort of things they come up with :)

Sounds like a great format there ducky hun, id love to see it over here for some asbo kids lol.:eek:

Oooh.. there'll be pig heads on sticks before you know it...

Oooh.. there'll be pig heads on sticks before you know it...

ROFL at the literary reference. As long as they don't kill the fat kid. My gosh I loved Piggy :/

wildcherry, that reminds of of The Biggest Loser. It's good motivation to lose weight though, so it's a good premise.

Kid Nation already premiered here in the states. And TBH, you're not missing much. It's not like they left kids without total parental supervission or anything, since there were cameras and everything. Not to mention ambulances just in case something happened (and yes, some kids were injured...). I personally felt it was kinda boring, but others might like it.

I loved the Amazing Race though. The one where pairs would race across the world doing various challenges in a shorter amount of time than the other teams. There was always a cute old couple, but they would never win. And then you had the arguing boyfriend-girlfriend team who would be a real bugger but win :rolleyes:

One really bad show that I remember being promoed was Welcome to the Neighborhood (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome_to_the_Neighborhood_%28TV_series%29). It's such a bad plot, since people can pick based on favoritism and not on who truly deserves it. Thank goodness it was never aired.

Oooh but anyone remember Gladiators (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22nNG5QzIFo)? I <3 battling with giant q-tips =D

heh I think we kinda turned this topic into a "what's our favorite reality show" type of thing. It's hard to come up with a reality show though. Hm... my gosh I ranted.

Those are great ideas you guys, and I'm sure that you would be awesome producers, but personally, I'm not into reality TV very much. At all. My ideal "reality" show would parody reality shows, or it would end up being the complete opposite of the typical reality show. Or, it just wouldn't have anything to do with reality TV. :P

Did anyone see that show called Mr Nice Guy, or Nice Guy Eddie, or something like that... it was a bit like sketches was talking about. Basically, before the show began, the producers combed America looking for the nicest guy they could find - and the guy really was the most awesomely nice guy ever. Then they got a ton of actors and put them together in a Big Brother meets that MTV show.. The Real Life? or something... type of house. The whole show basically revolved around this guy and the more and more outrageous things they would do, leaving him thinking he'd stepped into the twilight zone, for sure. They really took all the reality TV stereotypes and took them waaaay too far, on purpose. Right at the end they announced the winner of the show and it was this total jerk who had done nothing but annoy everyone else for the whole time, but then they told the Nice Guy that he was the real winner, and he got tons of money and they told him he truly was the nicest guy in America etc... it was kind of sweet, but they were so cruel in places!


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OK, but sticking with the original question, this is my reality TV format.

Do you remember that game, Scotland Yard? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland_Yard_(board_game) <--- in case you don't know it. It's a cool game. Anyways, I'd love to see it played out with real people in different cities! You'd have to change it a bit to make it work, but basically the 'criminal' would be somewhere in the city and the 'police' would have access to bus, train, underground tickets used by him/her. The places he/she were allowed to hide would be limited and he/she would have to move every hour/day/whatever the time frame was. He/she would have to take a picture of him/herself every few moves to let the police know where he/she was. Either that or they'd carry a tracker which would be turned on every so often. Oh I don't know, if the criminal won, they'd win a ton of money and if the police caught them, they themselves would win it, but it would have to be shared. They could really incorprate a lot of cool technology into it. That's my idea. Call me a kid, but global scale hide and seek really appeals to me :P

Or a global treasure hunt! How cool would that be? Clue one in Paris takes you to New York, where you find a clue which takes you to Tokyo... and teams have to race each other.

OK, so I guess these aren't exactly reality TV shows, but this is what I want to see on TV! (If I had one!) lol

Or a global treasure hunt! How cool would that be? Clue one in Paris takes you to New York, where you find a clue which takes you to Tokyo... and teams have to race each other.

Like Treasure Hunters (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure_Hunters_%28TV_series%29)? I'm American, so I'm unfortunately tv savvy :/

And if you want to watch the show:
http://www.youtube.com/user/treasurehuntersfan

Bah I couldn't find the Family Matters where Urkel and Carl were on Gladiators.:cry:

If only I was as book-smart as I was tv-smart :(

Vik, that sounds a bit like a show we had in the UK a few years back, called "Wanted". It was hosted by Richard Littlejohn. From what I remember, teams of two had to go on the run with the show's hunters trying to catch them during the week and people could phone in during the show and basically snitch on them. It's a shame it didn't last, was a good show.

Quick edit: More info on Wanted (http://www.daweaver.free-online.co.uk/wanted/wanted1-1.html)

My idea would be a cross between Celebrity Big Brother and a nature show. You put a group of celebrities in a house full of cameras and then, each week, the viewers get to vote which of a selection of venomous and/or savage animals gets put into the house with them. The celebrities have to then survive the week, last one standing is the winner. Sounds like a winner to me:razz:

Vik, that sounds a bit like a show we had in the UK a few years back, called "Wanted". It was hosted by Richard Littlejohn. From what I remember, teams of two had to go on the run with the show's hunters trying to catch them during the week and people could phone in during the show and basically snitch on them. It's a shame it didn't last, was a good show.

Quick edit: More info on Wanted (http://www.daweaver.free-online.co.uk/wanted/wanted1-1.html)

My idea would be a cross between Celebrity Big Brother and a nature show. You put a group of celebrities in a house full of cameras and then, each week, the viewers get to vote which of a selection of venomous and/or savage animals gets put into the house with them. The celebrities have to then survive the week, last one standing is the winner. Sounds like a winner to me:razz:
LMAO.
Sounds like fun to me, but the public have to pick the celebs that go in.
Oh i can think of many id like bitten by a snake.

I like the idea of WIFE SWAP!

Only the format I would choose is where you don't trade spouses with someone else (although if a specific iSketcher's husband would be up for a swap on a permanent basis I'd go with that).

The format would be that you get to swap your wife for something else - I would like to swap my wife for a 1968 Shelby Cobra GT500KR

http://www.madness-us-cars.com/actualite-vehicules-americains/shelby-gt500-kr-1968.jpg

Heres one:
Remember Alf?(Alien Life Form- cute furry Jim Henson looking alien with a big nose, was on years ago? He liked to eat cats?)
Well bring him back on his own show where he's given a gun and a mission. He has to kidnap fifty people who are doing wrong. Like muggers, benefit cheats and chavs. Alf then chains them up in his basement with no food (it won't really be his basement, it'll be a set made to look like his basement).
Alf then has to bet on who will be the first one to pass on. If he gets it right he wins a prize. He can then gamble that prize on who will be the next to die, for a better prize and so on and so on. If he gets it wrong the prisoners are released from their chains and get to eat Alf.
The gun comes into play so that if it looks like his wager is going wrong he can kill the one he bet on. But he only gets 5 bullets so use them wisely Alf!
Of course he can try and kill them with his bare hands but he's too cute and cuddley for that bless him.

Anyway I still havent heard back from Channel 4 yet. Watch this space.

Heres one:
Remember Alf?(Alien Life Form- cute furry Jim Henson looking alien with a big nose, was on years ago? He liked to eat cats?)
Well bring him back on his own show where he's given a gun and a mission. He has to kidnap fifty people who are doing wrong. Like muggers, benefit cheats and chavs. Alf then chains them up in his basement with no food (it won't really be his basement, it'll be a set made to look like his basement).
Alf then has to bet on who will be the first one to pass on. If he gets it right he wins a prize. He can then gamble that prize on who will be the next to die, for a better prize and so on and so on. If he gets it wrong the prisoners are released from their chains and get to eat Alf.
The gun comes into play so that if it looks like his wager is going wrong he can kill the one he bet on. But he only gets 5 bullets so use them wisely Alf!
Of course he can try and kill them with his bare hands but he's too cute and cuddley for that bless him.

Anyway I still havent heard back from Channel 4 yet. Watch this space.

Pnigh you are a really sick, and disturbed individual! I like the way you think!

Perhaps rather than sending your idea to Channel 4 you could consider sending it to Her Majesty's Court Service (http://www.hmcourts-service.gov.uk/) Then perhaps some law reform might occur.