Reality TV

I’m thinking of pitching a reality TV show.

I’m bored of all the dancing and baking and marrying off, I want to return to basics, the original survival reality show.

I want people in an isolated, foreign desert-land having to make a camp and getting voted off by merit of their Machiavellian minds and raw survival instincts.

There will be a slight sexual undertone to the whole thing also. Something about the heat and the pressure of living together and competing will build (orchestrated by the producers) to create an intense sexual tension between contestants.

I’m thinking “Survival! Hot in Timbuctu”.

There will be a special weekly show that details the eviction process, gets the contestants to compete for the remaining places and finally vote off a fellow cast member. The eviction process will consist of a camp based vote to determine who shall face the ‘Balancing Act’. The BA is, quite literally, a balancing act, a huge free floating platform on a central pivot on which the contestants must stand. They must try and un-focus, and thus unbalance, each other until the pivoting platform up ends and someone is lost over the edge and evicted.

It shall be called “Survival! Hot in Timbuctu: Balancing act- Let’s lose someone’.

I imagine it will be lauded as the greatest reality TV show of all time, a return to the glory days of the original voyeuristic television.

What I most look forward to is people discussing #SHIT and #SHITBALLS on twitter.