Wednesday, January 31, 2007

What topic could be next made into a reality television show?

How about mixing Paris Hilton, Jenna Jameson and 10 male virgins and what do you get? “Virgin Territory”.

That’s right Kevin Blatt a well known adult entertainment producer is developing the new reality series featuring Paris and Jenna as possible hosts or coaches.

Blatt is the man who distributed Hilton’s infamous porno, “One Night In Paris”, so the bizarre turn of events may end up seeing Hilton working with Blatt.

The show will feature 10 virgins who compete in challenges such as the “STD spelling bee” and the one who scores the lowest will be eliminated.

When there is one virgin left he will have to chose one of five a-list pornstars to whom he will lose his virginity to. Entrepreneur Bratt will film the ‘sexual encounter’ and distribute it through an adult entertainment company.

It makes you wonder where the boundaries of television, content and more broadly our own morals and ethics are. The development of this project is not only alarming, but distasteful and disgusting.

Audiences and ratings will not be a problem as I can guarantee a huge number of people would watch this program and the threat is that it could become the norm.

Cheap production costs and the increase in reality television is causing havoc amongst the social conscious. Just last year Prime Minister John Howard called for the axing of the distasteful “Big Brother” following the “Camilla Turkey Slapping Incident”.

I hope this program is never made and if it is, we do not see it here. We need to have some standard of ethics and morals and clearly this program does not meet any standards.

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