It's all in the Producer's, Director's and Editor's vision....
This entry was posted on 7/24/2007 7:24 AM and is filed under Trades.
Those of us in TV know first hand that the show is always how "we" want it to look. Sometimes the curtain is pulled off the great wizard.
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'Man vs. Wild,' perhaps not as much wild after all
In recent weeks, there has been a lot of controversy in Britain about truthfulness in factual TV programming. Now that debate is spilling over into the U.S. This time the talk is about a Discovery Channel show called “Man vs. Wild.” The program features survival expert Bear Grylls surviving on his wits alone after being stranded out in the wilderness. It is also shown in Britain on Channel 4 under the name “Born Survivor.” But Bear may not be as tough as he appears. A member of Grylls’ team told Britain’s Sunday Times that the host sometimes spends the night in hotels when it would appear he has bedded down in the great outdoors. Furthermore, the source said, a raft that Grylls seemingly created in the wild had been made earlier by a production team and then disassembled for Grylls to put together during the show. There was also the issue of some wild horses that were actually not so wild. The Discovery Channel has said that it will make the show more transparent going forward.
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