WHAT ELSE IS ON?For those of you who couldn't give one hoot about Celebrity Mole: Hawaii, there is a choice of new reality programming this Wednesday at 10 p.m.
On TLC, Escape from Experiment Island is a mini-series reality show, which, given its locale, is probably produced by one of the British t tv networks.
As anyone who has seen any British reality programming knows, the main difference from American shows is that there are no huge cash prizes. In fact, there aren't any cash prizes, period.
British reality tv is all about the Experience. Whether it's going back 100 years to live in The 1900 House, sending a group of families to be Castaway for a year on a cold Scottish island or going back thousands of years to try Surviving The Iron Age, the Brits make reality tv that is ALL about the Experience.
This latest offering promises a little bit more in the artificial problem- solving arena, with a time-limit on solving the essential problem of putting together a means of escape.
My tv guide blurbie appears to have drawn on a press release or an official website for the following description:
"Eight strangers are stranded off the west coast of Scotland (on an island) and have 4 days and 4 nights to 'overcome a series of challenges and design & build often-outlandish vehicles using only their ingenuity, some natural resources and scraps of civilization' in order to escape from the island."
I'll be checking this show out and reporting back here about it. I do hope it's worthwhile. It sounds very interesting.
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