Guardian: Gore TV targets US twentysomethings

Update: Al Gore releases new reality TV series, ‘Extinction’

Washington, DC—Shortly after announcing IndTV’s acquisition of News World International from Vivendi, Al Gore outlined at least one show planned for the fall. “It is a survivor-type series,” said Gore, “… only, instead of tracking the struggles faced by a pack of twenty-somethings in the Australian outback, we are gong to train our cameras on several species of plants and animals, observing their real-life struggles with pollution and development. We are calling it ‘extinction’ and its going to totally rock.” In response to reporter questions, Gore admitted that the show’s schedule would be somewhat different “While we are concentrating on endangered species, we plan to have a five-to- ten year contest window… there will be some time lapse photography but we are going to try to make it as real as possible—think of it like the show “24” but now its “43,829” or, in the ten year version “87,658”… how cool is that?” Asked about contestants, Gore named two species of tree frog, the California Condor and one species of endangered Lichen. Prizes have not been determined at this time but could include a new stereo system or tickets to a shopping spree at REI.

- posted by JB @ 7:28 PM