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Article: Cambodia gets a taste of reality: while reality TV may have reached saturation point for many viewers in the West--what happens when it's tried upon an audience unacquainted with the genre? Television Asia Plus reports from Cambodia.(programming)
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- Television Asia
- Article date:
- April 1, 2009
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Soap opera veteran Matthew Robinson--nicknamed the 'Pope of Soap' in the British press and best known for his role as lead director and executive producer on the BBC's flagship drama TV series Eastenders--has joined forces with Cambodia's new youth channel MYTV to bring reality TV to the people of Cambodia.
Robinson, for 25 years a celebrated TV producer and director in the UK, is now the founder and owner of a Phnom Penh-based production company KMF (Khmer Mekong Films).
KMF has been commissioned by MYTV to oversee the production of Cambodia's first ever 'real', 'live' reality TV series--a version of TV Azteca's La ...