In This Issue

A group of strangers agrees to live together in a specially designed house – mind you, also the setfully wired with cameras and microphones that register everybody’s moves 24 hours a day for a period of no less than three months. During their time in the house, members of the group are cut from all forms of communication with the external world. Every week, each member of the group ‘votes’ for the roommate that they would want to see expelled from the house, giving way to a list of “nominees” candidates for expulsion. The audience, in turn, is “invited” to ‘vote’ a candidate from the list, and the subsequent losers in the ‘election’ process are thrown out of the house one by one. Viewers must pay to emit their vote via a phone call or sms. That’s how they ‘participate’. As I write this, the website of Argentina’s fifth edition of the “reality show”, now in progress, indicates that 25.000 people ‘voted’ online for the expulsion the three nominees in the past week.