Posted on: Fri, Nov 20 2009 8:26 PM
Posted by: TriDog
Posts: 2,798
Now this seems funny. I hope we can get it over here.
The caption at the start seems to promise the most exploitative reality television show yet made: “Eighteen months ago Channel 4 marooned six disabled people on a remote island . . .” Two months after the station finally killed off Big Brother, has it really come to this?
Not exactly. The reality TV show is fictitious, but Cast Offs, a comedy drama about the making of a disabled take on Survivor, is about to become one of the most talked about programmes of the year when it begins this month.
Disability is one of television’s last taboos and Cast Offs tackles it head on, with a script stuffed with sex and politically incorrect jokes by writers from Skins, Shameless and The Thick of It. Each of the six episodes is from the viewpoint of a different character in the fictional show: a blind man, a deaf woman, a paraplegic man, a woman with dwarfism, a thalidomide-affected man and a woman with cherubism.
http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1939666,00.html?xid=rss-topstories
http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1939666,00.html?xid=rss-topstories
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