Hi,

I read an extract from this book in the paper today, has anyone got the book? It looks really good, and I don't even watch BB that much!

Cheers

James

Description of Billion Dollar Game - Google:

Cash Mountain. Survive. Project X. In the mid-1990s, these three innovative television shows had hit a dead end before they had even made production.

Rejected time and again by the networks, they seemed destined never to reach the screen. But thanks to the brilliance and determination of three men, not only did they get made, they became the biggest and most successful shows on earth: Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, Survivor and Big Brother.

BILLION DOLLAR GAME is the compelling story of how Paul Smith, Charlie Parsons and, above all, John de Mol defied overwhelming odds to take the industry by storm, make personal fortunes and transform the map of popular culture.

Peter Bazalgette, the man who brought Big Brother to the UK, charts the astonishing rise of reality TV from its humble beginnings on the Internet to the billion-dollar industry it is today.

Should be interesting reading in charting how our addictions began with a gamble each by the Big 3.

With all the productive times spend on line and before the TV screen, at home and at work, and then more time spent buying and reading Heat, OK!, Closer, etc and the NOTW, Daily Star, etc, a part of me wishes that they had lost their gambles.

Lost massively till bankrupt.