[Dismas]

Reality TV just gets worse and worse... I imagine this show would be interesting, although that doesn't detract from the fact it's messed up.

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We have seen toddlers in tiaras, been left “Naked and Afraid” and met more real housewives than a postman.

But if you thought reality television had reached the boundaries of imagination and good taste, a show that went on the air in the Czech Republic this month has opened up a whole new frontier.

In “Holiday in the Protectorate,” an eight-part series from Czech public television, three generations of a real-life family are sent “back in time” to a remote mountain farm in 1939, when German invaders transformed the country into the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.

There, they must not only survive the rigors of rustic life with dated appliances and outdoor plumbing, but navigate the moral and physical dangers of life under Nazi rule.

German troops (played by actors) kick down their doors in the middle of the night. Local villagers betray them to the Gestapo. Food is scarce. Conditions are crude.
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If they survive through eight episodes and two months of filming they stand to win as much as $40,000, depending on how well they perform the weekly tasks assigned to them, like learning to milk a cow.

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I cannot handle reality TV altogether, no matter what context It's pertaining to.

I'm at a loss as to how people can sit there and watch such gibberish shows.