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Originally posted by saralk
BNN is a public service broadcasting company, and so doesn't always have to put things on TV for entertainment.
Finally a non-Dutchie understands the nature of this program and public TV channels in general.
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Originally posted by ayjay
Regardless of what people say - it IS for entertainment - otherwise it wouldn't be being shown on TV and no one would be watching it.
If so you could label the news on TV as "messing around with people's emotions for entertainment" too. Obviously not all TV programs are made for entertainment, especially on public channels.
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Originally posted by CookieRevised
Please do not compare it with Big Brother. It is absolutely nothing like that. And it isn't because Endemol also created the concept of Big Brother that this is the only thing they think of.
Exactly, the one and only link between this show and Big Brother is the same production company... other than that it is a totally different concept, different channel/network, different goals, different people, different type (onetime program instead of a multi-season series). Reality TV as genre for this is highly mislabeled too.
I'll be watching tomorrow (if i have the time) out of curiosity. Hope somebody will upload it with subs for the curious people outside the Netherlands, so you can see if its really that bad as some seem to think.
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