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japan's reality tv, a little to far

Wow! Now that's what I call reality TV. Why can't we have more shows like that over here? I'm tired of these shows where people are trying to "survive" in the jungle, facing challenges for the right to eliminate an opponent. And the ones where people are picked to live with each other tend to put me to sleep. What's the deal with the shows where people are forced to eat the innards from various animals or face scary circumstances?

What I want to see is some guy who has no idea what's going on, locked in some house with nothing. That's interesting!
 
There was recently something called Average Joe on TV in Britain where some generic lovely has to pick between a gaggle of ugly suitors. Sounds crap. It was.

At the weekend I saw something at 03:45 while channel hopping that took it one step further: The Littlest Groom. While not a sequel to The Littlest Hobo this show features a guy suffering from dwarfism with a number of other girls suffering the same condition vying for his heart. So many weeks in they introduced some plain Janes of an average height to create some conflict.

Won't be long till we get the Derek Jarman channel with around the clock showing of Blue. Or the webcam channel - a webcam strategiclly placed on a ledge in some city just watching people pass by.
 
The worst I've ever seen is "trampoline girls". Just ordinary girls on trampolines on Saturday night. Jumping up and down. Yup.
 
Japanese people being tortured on tv for entertainment isn't really a new thing, and I don't think it's really them jumping on any sort of reality tv bandwagon. Back as a kiddy in the 80's I can remember watching Endurance on Clive James' tv show, and later Chris Tarrant would show clips on his truly dreadful excuse for a show. These people were starved for days on end and then made to share a room with a big plate of noodles. If they ate the noodles they got kicked off and won nothing. They'd be forced from ice cold water into almost boiling water and back again, repeatedly for hours on end all in the name of entertainment.

Takeshi's Castle is currently being run on Challenge, though I believe it was actually filmed several years ago. It's basically a Japanese version of It's a Knockout. Numerous guards physically attack the contestants in order to prevent them reaching the castle. They're rugby tackled, pushed down hills, shot with footballs from a cannon so they fall off a bridge into a net that's filled with previously fired balls, they're squeezed into a teeny plastic ball and then rolled down a giant pinball machine.

I would think by now that anyone signing up for a Japanese game show has a pretty good idea of what to expect.
 
Themistocles said:
It'll still never defeat Iron Chef. That's the ultimate Japanese TV show.
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Ehh... I got burned out on that show shortly after they aired the episode with Bobby Flay against Morimoto on Food Network. Bobby Flay is such an ass, and he made a total ass of himself on the show. Food Network should have just left Iron Chef the way it was without trying to squeeze there people onto the show.
 
watercrystal said:
HERE is some umm, no adjective term, maybe pervert, so-called food cultural.
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I like that she kept her little socks on. Stops it being dirty that does. Keeps the whole thing classy.

Mort said:
A man was killed by a falling boulder yesterday during an "adventure challenge" in Washington. They referred to it as a reality TV show on the news tonight.
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So is anything that isn't scripted now classed as reality tv? :confused:
 
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