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Has civilization get you down , man ? Ever wanted to leave this finish behind and start over ? Now you may . producer have issued a casting call forUtopia , a new world show that ’s somewhat much exactly what you think it is—15 strangers , plunk to survive on a farm and construct their own society from prick .
“ This is not a secret plan , ” the trailer says . But it kind of vocalise like a game :
UTOPIA follows 15 inhabitants as they leave their every solar day [ sic ] dwell to move to an isolated and unexploited location in the U.S.—for up to an entire yr — and take exception them to produce their own world . The series offers mass from across America the chance to be part of a groundbreaking societal experiment — the pioneer will make every determination about how they will live , work and what the linguistic rule and laws of UTOPIA will be .
Since producer are trying to fill all the possible roles for an entire society , the shed call is very , very specific . The producers are looking for people who specialise in : “ grammatical construction , Home Decorating , Design , DIY , Transportation , Wood Working , Machinery / Tools , Architecture , Green Living , Sustainable Development , Building / Engineering Trades . ” Something tells me the mortal specializing in Home Decorating will quickly be recruited to Housekeeping .
Like all not bad reality shows , the U.S. did not forge Utopia ; it ’s already been abig hit in the Netherlands(trailer below , in Dutch ) . According toDeadline Hollywood , the Dutch “ inhabitants ” were voted out in a complicated elimination process that included viewer stimulation . Viewers could also turn back out webcams that were on 24/7 , and just in the Netherlands , 100,000 people downloaded the app to watch after the first episode .
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“ It is the purest form of reality that I have ever produced in my career , ” says executive producer John de Mol , who also produced the Dutch version . He was the Lord of the original Big Brother show that birthed the reality genre , and is in many ways the model for this show , so he would know .
Really , are n’t all realness shows where people are forced to live together sort of their own takes on utopias ? Is n’t that what we were kind of hoping to see on Big Brother or The Real World or Survivor as well — seven unknown pick to live in a house or a pigeon loft or an island who would show us the complexities of human interaction and society - construction ?
But the job with these “ new civilization ” shows is that to get down from cacography , they purportedly must take all technical advances , and therefore make them totally irrelevant to today ’s culture . call up CBS ’s Kid Nation , a kind of present-day Lord of the Flies where producer dropped off 40 Thomas Kid aged eight through 15 in the ghost town of Bonanza City , Mexico ? For 40 days the kids cooked and cleaned , ran businesses , and establish a town council , all with minimum maternal supervision .
Producers worked the theme so intemperately it was more kindred watching a cowhand summer camp : The kid dressed in Wild West attire and had to make a living using awkward , heavy Wagon and other geological era - appropriate dick . ( Some kids develop sick after accidentally drink bleach , and an 11 - yr - old burned her face with grease while preparation , leading to at least one charge of child abuse . )
For Utopia — at least the Dutch case law — the inhabitants are know mostly the same way . They wear upon present - twenty-four hour period wearing apparel , but they ’re forced to live in a barn outside of Amsterdam with cows and chickens . They have one phone . Should n’t a show that bid commentary on what it ’s like to build a modern-day utopian society start with the premise that a contemporary utopian society would probably establish itself much closer to resources like theodolite , food , and culture ? The Real World , where people must build their own community but are still allowed to interact and engage in “ the real globe , ” is almost a better examination of modern-day social behavior .
I be intimate , I know , these shows are n’t really undertake to tell us anything about the structure of civilization at all . In fact , de Mol says it all in Utopia ’s trailer : “ The ultimate goal is to create great television . ” [ Utopia ]
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