U.S. nets import Chatterbox realities
By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 9/27/2002 4:00:00 AM
If U.K.-based Zeal Television and format company Chatterbox are any indication, the reality-show wave continues to gather force. According to Zeal, which has a first-look deal for Chatterbox properties, it has sold five of Chatterbox's reality formats to U.S. buyers The WB Television Network, Game Show Network, VH1, Bravo and reality vet Stone Stanley Entertainment.
Zeal said The WB has bought the rights to Resistance, a show billed as "a take on the evergreen concept of finding out how much money it takes to get people to do the outrageous." In the show, people on the street are asked to do outrageous things, with a monetary ante upped until their resistance (hence the title) is broken. The show debuts this fall on BBC Choice in the United Kingdom.
Bravo has signed on for Demolition, in which teams race to deconstruct items -- for instance, reducing a van into pieces small enough to "slam dunk" through a basketball hoop. Evolution Film & Tape Inc. optioned Demolition and Resistance and is developing the shows for the United States.
VH1 has picked up Bands Reunited, which does just what the name implies for one last concert.
GSN has picked up game show, Risky Business, where couples "bet on the answers to extraordinary and intriguing questions" that "have no exact answers."
And fittingly last, Stone Stanley has bought Resurrection, a show about graveyards and their "untold stories."
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