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June 30, 2004
“The Price Is Concussion” With Larry Emdur
TV can be bad for your health, as one gentleman found out recently after being told to “come on down” on television game show The Price Is Right.
Dean, a Melbourne resident, rushed to the stage to try his luck and after enthusiastically spinning the super showcase wheel, found himself with a rather nasty head wound after copping a smack on the noggin from the spinning circle of death.
The contestent continued to play on after the blow, until Australia’s most affable host Emdur noticed blood trickling down Dean’s face.
Clearly, this is the way of the future for game shows, and Dean’s “accident” is merely Channel 7’s test case to see how the Australian public reacts to violent but entertaining television. I for one give it two thumbs up and can’t wait to see more contestants earn their cash after suffering gruelling torture inflicted by medieval instruments.
Posted by Jess at June 30, 2004 3:05 AM— Filed under Common , The Topic Of Television
Comments
Reminds me of the novellas The Long Walk and The Running Man by Richard Bachman (aka Stephen King), the latter later corrupted into an ordinary Arnie movie. Depicted a future wherein the class imbalance had grown and the majority of the population lived in squalor and were used as expendable fodder for game shows. Any King fans who ain't encountered it, I think The Long Walk is probably the best thing he has written.
I wonder sometimes if reality TV as it is today is a step in this direction. The quintessence of many of these shows is deriving pleasure from the suffering of others...well maybe it's not the be all and end all but it happens a lot in these types of shows, case in point BB where conflict is orchestrated for our amusement...and I'd like to see what would happen to the Australian Idol ratings if they couldn't get 'Dicko' back.
Posted by: epicurus | July 5, 2004 1:33 AM