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Sci Fi Channel gets into the Reality Craze
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Sci Fi Going to Mars
Mon, Mar 31, 2003 06:19 PM PDT
LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - The Sci Fi Channel is planning to send a dozen civilians to Mars.
Mind you, ratings for "Taken" weren't so good that the cable network can actually afford a mission to the red planet. Instead, Sci Fi is developing a new unscripted series that will simulate what it might be like if earthlings were ever to colonize Mars.
The series, titled "Life on Mars," is one of several unscripted shows (Sci Fi calls them "alternative reality" programs) the network has in development. Others will follow average people living "Real World" -style with a psychic, a witch, a voodoo priest and a self-described vampire and try to get at the truth behind enduring beliefs that we are not alone in the universe.
Sci Fi has been working to develop more original programming to run alongside scripted series like "Stargate SG-1" and its slate of movies. The new unscripted shows follow the late-night dream-analysis/talk show "The Dream Team" and the upcoming "Scare Tactics," a hidden-camera show hosted by Shannen Doherty.
"Life on Mars" will place two teams of people in what Sci Fi says will be a realistic simulation of conditions on Earth's neighbor, lack of oxygen presumably included. The "explorers" will then have to adapt to living in conditions that are almost literally otherworldly.
The "Real World" and "Big Brother"-esque "Mad Mad House" will bring regular people under the same roof with a group of folks who dabble in the paranormal. The "normal" people will then try to complete a series of challenges to win prizes.
The channel is also planning a handful of original documentaries on unexplained phenomena titled "Sci Fi Declassified." They will follow in the wake of "The Roswell Crash: Startling New Evidence," which is the highest-rated original special in the channel's history.
Other shows in the works include "Lab Rats," in which human guinea pigs test the claims of products that promise to cure baldness or help people lose weight in their sleep; and "Psychic Investigators," which profiles psychics who work with law enforcement.
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