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* ImmoralRealityShow: ''The Live Life Show'' becomes one once the producers start putting the participants' lives at risk to make things more interesting.
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''The Year of the Sex Olympics'' is a TV movie that first aired on [[Creator/TheBBC BBC2]] in 1968. It was written by Creator/NigelKneale, and stars Leonard Rossiter, Tony Vogel, Suzanne Neve and Creator/BrianCox.
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''The Year of the Sex Olympics'' is a TV movie that first aired on [[Creator/TheBBC BBC2]] in 1968. It was written by Creator/NigelKneale, and stars Leonard Rossiter, Tony Vogel, Suzanne Neve and Creator/BrianCox.
Creator/BrianCox. Although shot in colour, only a black and white version survives.
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''The Year of the Sex Olympics'' is a TV movie that first aired on [[Creator/TheBBC BBC2]] in 1968. It was written by Creator/NigelKneale, and stars Leonard Rossiter, Tony Vogel, Suzanne Neve and Creator/BrianCox.
It is set in a future where the majority of the population is kept passive with a diet of low-brow television programming, such as the Sex Olympics of the title. The main focus of the story, however, is ''The Live Life Show'', a new reality program about a family sent to live on a remote island, and the consequences when one of the program executives decides to manufacture some extra drama.
In the 21st century, it has been praised by many commentators for its prescience about the rise of RealityTV and lowest-common-denominator programming.
!!''The Year of the Sex Olymics'' provides examples of:
* BreadAndCircuses: With television in place of the circuses.
* DeadlyGame: What ''The Live Life Show'' becomes in order to boost audience interest.
* NonIndicativeName: ''The Year of the Sex Olympics'' is not really about the Sex Olympics.
* RealityTV: ''The Live Life Show'', prefiguring ''Series/BigBrother'' by thirty years.
* TrumanShowPlot: The protagonist does know that he's on a reality show, but he's not aware that the situation is being manipulated, to his cost.
* {{Zeerust}}: The costume and set designs make this very much a 1960s vision of the future.
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It is set in a future where the majority of the population is kept passive with a diet of low-brow television programming, such as the Sex Olympics of the title. The main focus of the story, however, is ''The Live Life Show'', a new reality program about a family sent to live on a remote island, and the consequences when one of the program executives decides to manufacture some extra drama.
In the 21st century, it has been praised by many commentators for its prescience about the rise of RealityTV and lowest-common-denominator programming.
!!''The Year of the Sex Olymics'' provides examples of:
* BreadAndCircuses: With television in place of the circuses.
* DeadlyGame: What ''The Live Life Show'' becomes in order to boost audience interest.
* NonIndicativeName: ''The Year of the Sex Olympics'' is not really about the Sex Olympics.
* RealityTV: ''The Live Life Show'', prefiguring ''Series/BigBrother'' by thirty years.
* TrumanShowPlot: The protagonist does know that he's on a reality show, but he's not aware that the situation is being manipulated, to his cost.
* {{Zeerust}}: The costume and set designs make this very much a 1960s vision of the future.
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