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Transnational Learning Network

         Last year, a new concept appeared on French T.V. from the States: reality shows. The first broadcast was a real success: “Loft Story”. Five girls and six boys were shut up for two months in a house and they were filmed. Everyone watched this programme because it was a new one and people were curious.

After this first reality show, a lot of others were broadcast.  In “Star Academy” fourteen boys and girls had to  live in a castle, had different types of music lessons so that after many tests, one of them could  become a singer and earn  a lot of  money. That was also very successful.

“Koh-Lanta” (in U.S. “Survivor”) another reality show where two groups of people are on an island must survive for two months with what they find; in the end, one of them wins and gets a money prize. But people were not very interested in this concept.

Last summer “Operation seduction” appeared, where twenty boys were on a boat for around a month to seduce four girls and in the end (after the women had eliminated all the others), the girls elected a boy who became the seducer of the summer.

Another and last (for the moment) concept was broadcast this summer, called “Temptation Island”. Four couples come on an island to test their couple, to know if they really love each other and they are separated – a place for girls and another for boys. Then in those places, single boys and girls are here to seduce them; in the end, the couples decide to stay or not together.

       All of these concepts came from the United States where they were shown for a couple of years and invaded the world few years later like all the U.S. phenomena

 Some of these broadcasts are totally silly. In France, they interest from the younger to the elder people who often watch T.V. In France, it is a fashionable phenomenon and like every fashionable phenomenon , it will go out of fashion.

Hélène Ronceray