Reality show wunderkind Mark Burnett will be launching a reality series for both television and online audiences that seeks to find one person to serve as the political voice of young America. The series, Independent, will launch sometime early next year on MySpace, and will also be seen on television, though at this stage no network has been found for the series.
Young adults can upload videos of themselves and will then be either accepted or voted off by their peers. The point, naturally, is to get young people interested in politics and current issues. This doesn't quite fit in with my preference of having the voting age raised to 75 and having all voting polls placed in the middle of a swamp, but whatever, I'm learning to change with the times.
More seriously, I think the real question is whether this new series will actually encourage kids to get informed about everything, or whether it will try to push a certain political agenda.
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4-25-2007 @ 2:57PM
Richard Ott said...
If this is what the world of Reality TV has come to,
that Mark Burnette can actually allow the privacy of
other people on myspace to be shown on national TV,
I hope it has come to the end with this type of trash.
If any channel picks this monstrocity up, I hope it's on
the channel I'll NEVER click my remote on, FOX RC 108.
We may depend on Independant to be scrapped from
the airwaves after the very first episode, but with today's
viewing TV public, that's of course, wishful thinking.
RICK.
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4-25-2007 @ 3:24PM
Adam in the SLC said...
Well, myspace is owned by Fox, so it'll be produced by Fox at least. I'd bet that it ends up on the Fox Net too.
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