Re: I'm only surprised it took till 2017.

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The unfogged reality show: Contestants are isolated on an island with nothing but overcooked steaks and ketchup to eat. A broken ekranoplan is their only hope of escape. To get parts they have to do a five minute standup routine of cock jokes. The audience votes on how funny they are and parts are handed out to the funniest. The sex grotto has infra-red cameras covering every angle, natch. What else?


Posted by: togolosh | Link to this comment | 03-27-17 7:19 AM
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The whole thing is set up Oregon Trail style, where you have to type what you're doing and get a prompt.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 03-27-17 7:21 AM
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"Eden" is 600 acres? That's not even a square mile.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 03-27-17 7:23 AM
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Atlatl contests for immunity.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 03-27-17 7:23 AM
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Atlatl is too a word, fucking firefox.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 03-27-17 7:25 AM
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Reminds me slightly of the opening of "Apollo 13" with the astronauts doing all those cheery broadcasts from space and NASA not having the heart to tell them that no one's watching because the networks (and indeed the rest of the nation) has lost interest.


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 03-27-17 7:27 AM
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I often glom paragraphs together when quoting in the interests of alleviating the critical asterisk </blockquote> shortage.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 03-27-17 7:34 AM
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The OP is very Ballardian.


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 03-27-17 7:49 AM
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7: Also, never apologize.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 03-27-17 7:51 AM
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I don't understand why the production company didn't call them in. It had to have cost a lot of money to keep filming.


Posted by: jms | Link to this comment | 03-27-17 10:19 AM
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It's all very Biosphere 2.


Posted by: J, Robot | Link to this comment | 03-27-17 12:18 PM
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Or "Bio-Dome."


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 03-27-17 12:22 PM
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Anyway, I like the idea of Pauly Shore starving on 600 acres in Scotland.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 03-27-17 12:37 PM
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11: But with Bannon otherwise occupied in the reality-entertainment world.


Posted by: lurid keyaki | Link to this comment | 03-27-17 1:06 PM
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It's not even the first UK reality series in which people had to make a new life for themselves on a remote Scottish island/peninsula, either.

It had a rather bigger setting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taransay


Posted by: nattarGcM ttaM | Link to this comment | 03-27-17 1:11 PM
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There's an update with the TV station saying they are actually going to air more episodes. I wonder if this is a response to this becoming a viral news story rather than something they were already planning to do.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 03-27-17 1:13 PM
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16: The Independent is super-clickbaity. (They're also the ones who spread the story that the big Trump-backed repeal-and-replace bill was called the World's Greatest Healthcare Plan Act.


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 03-27-17 1:49 PM
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17: Good point. They also spread the "Trump gave Merkel a bill for $300 billion" story, although it was the Times that originally reported it.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 03-27-17 1:56 PM
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Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 03-27-17 2:24 PM
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