Number 28
Number 28 was a reality show on Dutch television from 1991. The show, for the first time, filmed people unknown to each other in an artificial setting, a house with number 28, around the clock.
The show set standards in the then still young reality genre: For example, a room was introduced in which the participants could entrust their thoughts to a camera. This show also gave rise to the idea of adding suitable pieces of music to the scenes that were cut together in the program and thus "dramatizing" them.
In contrast to similar later versions of the genre, number 28 was not a game show , so the participants did not compete against each other for a price, as in Big Brother , for example . The participants were also not isolated from the rest of the world, so their normal everyday life should be filmed.
A year later, the broadcaster MTV adopted a practically identical concept for the show The Real World , which is still broadcast today. The show's producers later accused this broadcaster of plagiarizing their show, without at least naming the idea behind it.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Source: De wereld real , Harmen van Dijk, Trouw , September 15, 1999
- ↑ Source: Zeven werklozen samen op zoek naar een baan by Raymond van den Boogaard, NRC Handelsblad , September 28, 1996