Fox goes for the low ball yet again
Oh dear, Fox is at it again -- this time for its latest reality show, "Who's Your Daddy?" How does this work? As Media Guardian describes it:
- In each episode a young woman wins $100,000 if she guesses her biological father correctly from a line-up of eight men that she meets in the course of the show. If she is wrong then one of the fake fathers pockets the money.
Anyway, Media Guardian also notes:
- Fox is in trouble with another of its reality programmes. Two weeks ago Wife Swap producer RDF announced it would sue Fox TV for at least £10m, claiming another of its reality shows was a "blatant and wholesale copycat" of its hit Channel 4 series. RDF director of programmes Stephen Lambert claimed the Fox show, Trading Spouses: Meet Your New Mommy, was the "most clear-cut case of copyright theft in the history of the reality genre".
Copyright law is supposed to protect copyright holders from appropriating the "look and feel" of a product. That's a very vague standard, but we'll see if this suit goes anywhere.
posted by hdougie at 12/27/2004 04:26:00 PM
2 Comments:
I'm not going to lie- I was a fan of reality television, but lately I've been thinking it goes way too far. I liked the good old days when Survivor was just getting started, but now it seems like everything on television is a "reality show". All of these shows just lower the general IQ of America, and promote really horrible values. For example, The Swan. This is a show where they take people with poor self esteem and even poorer looks and perform complete plastic surgery on them. But that's America, right? As long as you look beautiful, who cares what's on the inside? Sure, reality shows can be fun if they are contests or competitions to see who is the best at something, but is it really necessary to see exactly WHO is going to Marry that Millionare?
Anna Crowley
I also am a fan of reality tv but some of it is being taken too far--to the point where it is not reality. For example, The Real World on mtv. This show is very entertaining but it is not displaying the "real" life of adults around the ages 18-25. What adult within that age range, in the actual real world, is living in a house or apartment suitable for a celebrity? Or gets a job with all of his/her housemates, no matter their college education? No one I know. Half of the people on the show are still in college. So why not air a show with kids living in cramped dorm rooms, eating nasty college food, depicting real life situations? Or for the graduated few, send them out in the real world while they live the graduated life in search of a "real" job. Also, while living in an apartment or house where they struggle to pay rent because the majority of the money they have is sent to pay off college loans. That's the real world.
-Kaitlyn Collins
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