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Old 22-11-2003, 02:59
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'Hungry' Russians Stranded in Berlin Gameshow

Almost two weeks ago, 12 young Russians arrived in Berlin, without money, food or any idea where they were - it's all part of the latest gameshow to hit TV screens.

In under three months, one of them will have won $US1,000 a month for the rest of his or her life.

The six men and six women aged between 20 and 28 are competing for the prize in a new Russian TV show called Golod (Hunger), where contestants are deposited in a container in an unknown city and forced to find their own food and money.

After the first three weeks, the audience votes to eliminate one person every week until just the winner remains, having - in the words of the show's website - survived for 100 days without food or money.

A German tabloid reporting on "Hunger" thought this meant the contestants would actually be starved.

"Russian TV lets young women starve in a Berlin container", said an outraged Bild newspaper.

It branded the show "perverted television" and reporting police warnings which threatened to pursue any contestants caught stealing food.

TNT producer Dmitry Troitsky rebutted the claims they would be left to starve, saying contestants could eat all the boiled pasta and potatoes they wanted, as well as a special vitamin drink.

He said they would be closely monitored by doctors to prevent them from coming to any harm.

Speaking to reporters through an interpreter near the closed-off container on the edge of Berlin, Troitsky said the show aimed to make contestants feel an emotional hunger for home and familiar comforts but would not turn them into criminals or force them into prostitution.

"The contestants are sent into the city with camera teams, so there is no question of them resorting to crime," he said.

The contestants, selected from 10,000 applicants, are taken out in pairs to try their luck on the streets of the German capital.

"One of the show's main objectives is that the participants develop a means of communicating which transcends cultural boundaries so they find a common language with Berliners, win their sympathy and make friends," said TNT in a statement.

So far the contestants' attempts to earn an honest crust in the city have not met with outstanding success.

The "Hunger" website said that Yana, 24, had managed to earn 40 cents for singing in Russian, while the first pair to be sent out had to fall back on the kindness of some Russians they met who gave them some bread, cheese and ham.
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Old 24-11-2003, 14:43
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This sounds like despicable TV.
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Old 24-11-2003, 20:44
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This sounds like despicable TV.
should be on Bravo soon then.
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Old 24-11-2003, 22:05
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Originally posted by gmguru
should be on Bravo soon then.
They'd have to fight Sky One for it

And Channel 5 would show 'The Making Of....................."

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