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Article: SLEEP TALK: COULD YOU STAY AWAKE FOR A WEEK?; Channel 4's latest reality TV show, Shattered, is like Big Brother with a twist - the longer you can stay awake, the more money you stand to win. If you don't go mad in the process, that is...(Features)
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- Sunday Mirror (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 4, 2004
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Byline: Deirdre O'Brien
It's a Saturday afternoon in a Central London basement, and 40 people are pretending to be an electric blender. But it's not experimental theatre - it's a team exercise which makes up part of the audition for Shattered, a new reality TV show that investigates the effects of sleep deprivation.
Shattered is like a shorter, sharper and more sadistic Big Brother. Twelve contestants will spend a week in a specially constructed glass studio in East London, competing to stay awake the longest, with a possible pounds 100,000 up for grabs. ...