{"id":166,"date":"2024-11-27T17:13:42","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T17:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2024\/11\/27\/the-contestant-review-the-cruelty-of-reality-tv-on-show-in-one-of-its-earliest-manifestations-film-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2024-11-27T17:13:42","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T17:13:42","slug":"the-contestant-review-the-cruelty-of-reality-tv-on-show-in-one-of-its-earliest-manifestations-film-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2024\/11\/27\/the-contestant-review-the-cruelty-of-reality-tv-on-show-in-one-of-its-earliest-manifestations-film-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"The Contestant review \u2013 the cruelty of reality TV on show in one of its earliest manifestations | Film | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>He was told that on winning a million yen\u2019s worth of goods his mission would be complete; moreover he was allowed to eat and drink whatever edible or drinkable prizes he could get, including dog food. And all the time his ordeal was being broadcast to a huge Japanese TV audience without his realising it.<\/p>\n<p>This was around the time of the movie The Truman Show and before our own TV staple Big Brother.<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2024\/nov\/26\/the-contestant-review-the-cruelty-of-reality-tv-on-show-in-one-of-its-earliest-manifestations\">www.theguardian.com\/film\/2024\/nov\/26\/the-contestant-review-the-cruelty-of-reality-tv-on-show-in-one-of-its-earliest-manifestations<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He was told that on winning a million yen\u2019s worth of goods his mission would be complete; moreover he was allowed to eat and drink whatever edible or drinkable prizes he could get, including dog food. And all the time his ordeal was being broadcast to a huge Japanese TV audience without his realising it. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}