D8 launches this Monday, December 15 “undercover Policies”, a program in which elected officials play ordinary people to experience the daily life of the French. Abroad, the reality and political mixture is not new and has sometimes been pushed too far. Examples …
The Senator of Bouches-du-Rhône Samia Ghali single mother looking for an apartment, the former Minister Thierry Mariani in the wheelchair to a disabled, former president of the National Assembly Bernard Accoyer in the coat of a stretcher-bearer and the regional councilor for Ile-de-France Jean-Luc Romero disguised as a community activist. This is the cast of the first episode of undercover Policy , a new reality TV program broadcast on D8 from this Monday, December 15, 2014.
Grimes not to be recognized, they go and immerse yourself with “real French” to experience their lives everyday. But the four elected representatives are not the first to cross the Rubicon. There was of course the pioneers dinners made by Valéry Giscard d’Estaing in ordinary fellow, immortalized by the camera of Raymond Depardon in 1974 a house party .
the fall of 2003, TF1 announced with great fanfare the launch of a new concept of political immersion presented by journalist Ruth Elkrief and based on the immersion with “French means” . Code Name: 36 hours . It was Pierre Bedier, then Secretary of State, to teething by inviting in the daily life of a midwife Argenteuil. A driver is shot, in which the elected sleeps at the hotel, attends births and even caesarean sections. Alas, the show will never be aired, and Jean-Francois Cope (with the spokesman of the government Raffarin time), which was to result ultimately remain at home.
In the press Prime Minister reminded his flock to order: “We do not need to be in pajamas to express his convictions” . More recently, in 2009, there had experience Home Policy . Vincent Peillon one has had time to sit down in an ordinary family: the program aired directly on Dailymotion, will know only one number
In other countries, however, of. Other formats launched in the niche of political reality, met with more success and in the most varied formats. Illustrations
In England: policies that play (too) the game
In 2008, David Cameron – who was not yet Prime Minister -. opened the door of his intimacy reporters ITV News. It showed the elected Tory home, at the table of breakfast, chatting with his wife, cuddling his children … “How far do they have the political stage their families to boost their careers? “, then questions the press. The debate rages, the person concerned is a tackle by some of his fellow politicians, including his Labor opponent Gordon Brown, Prime Minister. Six years later, it was at least evidence that it has not served its ascent …
His compatriot George Galloway, still remembered for imitating the cat (furry and head on the knees of another candidate) in the fourth season of Big Brother on Channel 4, he suffered a drubbing. Defeated in parliamentary elections in 2010, he was re-elected in a by-election in 2012. The same year, the MP Nadine Dorries (conservative, too!) Made known its intention to participate in I’m a celebrity, get me out of here! (which gave France I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! ). Its engines? Changing the image of political and stem the abstention. Its means of action? Trudge through the jungle and being bombed insects. Without fear and without reproach, she will go far as to compare the House of Commons with the world of reality TV – “At Westminster, is obtained by voting! “ Suspended time by his party, it will eventually return to work
In Lebanon and Palestine. Star ac ‘to renew the political class
In early 2013, the chain (public) Lebanese Al-Jadeed launches Al-Zaim – “the boss” in VO – a TV hook jury (! policies) and audience vote to choose a responsible future. For two months, fifteen candidates clashed five nights a week, on tests intended to demonstrate their leadership qualities debates, organizing meetings, practice sessions … Finally, it is Maya, a student of 27 years barded degrees, which was considered the most convincing. And received the promise of the chain to see finance his campaign for the parliamentary elections. Scheduled for June 2013, these have been postponed twice because of the great tension climate in the region, and should not be held before 2017. Go to the polls, Maya?
In 2013 always a few cables there, the chain pulls Maan Al-Rai s – the “leader” in the original version. An almost identical format called to emerge Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas coming decades. Given the fragmentation of the Palestinian territories, tour issue in Ramallah (West Bank) includes a videoconferencing for Gazan candidates. Among the jurors supposed to decide between them (from very serious issues on the local political climate) is supported including a member of the PLO
In Canada. The speaking contest student at the talent show which cases
Released between 2006 and 2008 to the Canadian public television, Canada’s next great Prime minister , allowed three students (two in political science, a physics), earn 50,000 dollars each, after a jury of four former prime ministers found their particularly relevant political ideas. The show, which was a great success, was inspired in fact a student oratory contest ( As Prime minister awards ) sponsored by a large private company. Since then, the three winners did not really talk about them on the political scene. But the concept has been emulated beyond borders, adapted Bulgaria, Germany and France. It was called Who wants to be President , it happened on France 4 … and it made a big oven
In the US:. Of Sharks of the Senate in the Pacific
Forget Man vs Wild and Bear Grylls, Moundir and Koh-Lanta ! Latest in the family of survivalists concepts, the show Rival / survival . On air on the Discovery Channel since October 2014, follows two elected antagonists convictions – Jeff Flake is a Republican, Democrat Martin Heinrich – helicopter on a deserted island in the archipelago of the Marshall. Overall, despite the “seventy-four times they voted against one another in the Senate” , they must learn to survive, to make fire, to fish food, without serving them -Same bait for big fish … As noted in that section of the Washington Post both Robinson promised between two coconuts they would work to better understanding between the two parties … Attention insolation, boys.
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