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Article: A challenge to `Survivor' `Big Brother' also hopes to capitalize on voyeurism
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- June 21, 2000
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Leave it to the network whose logo is an unblinking eye.
Hot on the sandy heels of CBS' "Survivor" next month comes "Big
Brother," another voyeur's delight looking to become a national
summer soap opera.
We are expected to be swept up again in the drama of ordinary
people under extraordinary circumstances caught, as the pranksters on
"Candid Camera" used to say, in the act of being themselves.
While "Survivor" asks us to daydream about being stranded on an
exotic isle for 39 days with a group of imperfect strangers, "Big
Brother" demands we contemplate three months under house arrest with
nine other extroverts and no privacy.
If "Big Brother" is half as successful as CBS hopes, running ...