http://www.mattromaine.com/2003/10/21/trump-style/ Tokyo and tech through the eyes of a split pea Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:20:52 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.mattromaine.com/2003/10/21/trump-style/comment-page-1/#comment-131 aragoto Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mattromaine.com/?p=130#comment-131 I think Japan has had a few reality shows. Denpa Shonen is the first that springs to mind, in particular a section where they shut a group of people in a room for several months and made them come up with ideas for TV programmes; a winning idea would enable you to "graduate" into the heady world of programme planning (whoopee). Very similar pattern to "The Apprentice," in fact. The other one that springs to mind is Ainori, where a group of people tours the globe on a bus, hopefully finding love with one of their co-passengers, at which point the two go home together and new members are picked up. (I hear the course that things take is in fact fairly heavily influenced by the TV station, though.) I think Japan has had a few reality shows. Denpa Shonen is the first that springs to mind, in particular a section where they shut a group of people in a room for several months and made them come up with ideas for TV programmes; a winning idea would enable you to “graduate” into the heady world of programme planning (whoopee). Very similar pattern to “The Apprentice,” in fact. The other one that springs to mind is Ainori, where a group of people tours the globe on a bus, hopefully finding love with one of their co-passengers, at which point the two go home together and new members are picked up. (I hear the course that things take is in fact fairly heavily influenced by the TV station, though.)

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