Your prize, reality contestants.
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Reality TV is struggling like a man trying to get out of a glass coffin full of scorpions on a Japanese game show.
How can the producers make it more interesting? We’ve surely seen everything.
Well, we’ve never seen the winners being shot into outer space, have we?
So it has come to pass that Mark Burnett, the very clever man behind such cultural artifacts as “The Apprentice” and “The Celebrity Apprentice,” has persuaded NBC to buy as show called “Space Race.”
This is not a competition between Americans and Russians, with Edward Snowden as its host.
Instead, as Deadline reported, it’s normal, everyday people battling to get seats on a flight into space.
Naturally, this flight into space will the on Virgin Galactic, the chosen space carrier of celebrities worldwide. In this case, a flight on SpaceShipTwo wi… [Read more]
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