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Luke Knowles’ transatlantic TV week
Monday has become a slightly dull television day for me. ITV has the awful series about a fictional Royal Family, Channel 4 has the better City of Vice, but I don’t really like things set in that time period so this week I turned to BBC2 for help and its new documentary series Paradise or Bust.
The premise: two twenty something men (who are very posh and look a bit like Prince Harry) decide to set up an online “tribe”, buy an island in Fiji and make it eco-friendly. The members of the tribe pay an online membership fee and are allowed to visit the island and help build it. Then, after three years, the newly refurbished island goes back to the Fijian people. Simple! At first the idea of an online tribe voting and making crucial decisions on the development of the island does sound a little bonkers. It sounds even more crazy that people are paying to have their say. My first thought would be scam, and I wouldn’t be parting with the money I save to buy DVDs.
Getting over the whole “sharing an uninhabited island with complete strangers” thing, the programme was interesting, even if nothing much happened. The Prince William look-a-like Ben did have to deal with a lot of tribal red tape which meant a hunt for a whale tooth and the sacrifice of a screaming pig, as well as trying to keep track of the unrealistic budget. He pulled it off, though, and you can’t knock them for their enthusiasm. The next episode does look more interesting and I want them to succeed so I’ll keep watching, but it would help me if they’d stop hugging each other and smiling! Plus I’m not sure how this can be stretched over the four episodes that remain.
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