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Title: Big Brother cancelled
Post by: Fedya on March 03, 2004, 08:00:44 PM

I don't see that this has been posted here yet, so....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3527433.stm (http://\"http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3527433.stm\")

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Arab Big Brother meets Orwellian end

By Julia Wheeler
BBC correspondent in Dubai

Big Brother Bahrain-style has turned out a little more Orwellian than anticipated.

And, controversially, not in the house.

The decision of the Bahrain Government to ban the programme being broadcast from Amwaj Island came after protests against the Arabian version of the popular reality television show.

Demonstrators in the kingdom numbered between 200 and 1,000 people, depending on which side you talk to.

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Title: Big Brother cancelled
Post by: uncamark on March 04, 2004, 12:49:15 PM

Meanwhile, a pan-Arab dating show was pulled off the air (http://\"http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040301/tv_nm/entertainment_arabs_reality_dc_2\") as too "indecent."

And there's much controversy (http://\"http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040303/ap_en_tv/arab_reality_tv_4\") over an attempt to bring the Endemol "Star Academy" format (basically "Idol" meets "Big Brother") to the Arab countries.

Finally, an episode of the first pan-Arab "Idol" ended in a studio audience riot when the crowd objected to the viewers' choice to be eliminated that week.

I wouldn't want to put on a reality show over there, if I were a producer.

Title: Big Brother cancelled
Post by: DrBear on March 04, 2004, 12:57:08 PM

Well, "Fear Factor" might work...although they'd probably think it was a documentary.

"How long will this former dictator stay in the spider hole we've built?"