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# Reality TV
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/1300/
- Published: 2005-06-09T10:32:47.000Z
- Updated: 2005-06-09T10:32:47.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Culture, #wpChunk

Fox Cable Networks announced the debut of Fox Reality--a network that provides 24/7 reality programming. Sound unique? No, there are already two other cable channels that provide 24/7 reality coverage, and the rest of the world has had it since 2003\. Consider these programs:

> **Terrorism in the Grip of Justice (Iraq):** Imprisoned terrorist suspects confess to the camera, discuss their motives (usually financial), and sometimes face the families of their victims. The show airs six nights a week on a state-run network.

> **Sperm Race (Germany):** Samples of the contestants' frozen sperm are sent to a studio in Cologne, where they are placed in a petri dish and raced toward an egg. The winner receives a red Porsche and the title "Germany's Most Virile Man."

> **Spets (Russia):**  Produced by the real-life mobster Vitali "Spets" Dyomochka, who was irked by TV depictions of organized crime in Russia, the seven-part series portrays mafia life in Usssurisk, a city near Vladivostok. The gangsters play themselves.

Source: *The Atlantic Monthly*, July/August 2005, p. 36 (no link available).

Observation: All three of these shows highlight a problem in their particular country: terrorism in Iraq, lack of fertility in Germany, the mob in Russia. We wonder what that says about successful American reality shows? What does it say about *American Idol*, *The Apprentice*, and perhaps most intriguing, *Fear Factor*?