Have you been watching tv on a tuesday evening recently?
After a couple of weeks of a show called Monster House, channel nine replaced it with the American show "Moment of Truth". This show is a game show based on contestants answering personal questions truthfully in order to try and win $500,000. In typical fashion there are many comercial breaks, when they preview upcoming questions or contestants, and then following the break they replay the lead up to the current question. This method of programing stretches a program that could be fitted into a half hour timeslot to fill a full hour with commercial time.
The aftermath of the game show has wrecked much of the relationships of the contestants. Basically the wording of the questions could be taken as having a yes answer from something that happened in the past or the way the person felt in the past or might feel in the future.
Sometimes the questions people have found to have lied about would seem to have an obvious answer, such as "Do you think you're a good person?" Her husband would have said no, after many of the answers to previous questions, like if she was still in love with her ex. Her father thought she was a good person, and she answered yes, only to lose the $100,000. So far no one has made more than $100,000 in ten episodes.
It would be a very difficult thing to admit these extremely personal things on national tv and in front of friends and family. Many questions are related to how committed the contestant would be to their partner or if they trusted them.
I was looking at Wikipedia about this show and the ratings started quite high with viewers in the US, but it dropped quickly each week until an episode screened that created alot of publicity in magazines about the contestant that ruined her marriage based on the questions that she answered.
I guess it would take a lot for them to ax this show. They have already created a second season which they previewed on the final episode of the first season.
Feel free to leave comments on this post. Would you go on a show like this?
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heck no! and i think it is wrong of the producers of 9 to be running with a show like this! they must really be trying to pull ratings, and be on hard times.
i think any show that asks potentially private and humiliating questions like that needs to rethink where its morals are coming from.
in other news, you should post on this blog more :)
from steph aka littlesteph from gush
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