Survival-style shows capture imagination
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Few sane people want to visit a storm-tossed Bering Sea, the sizzling Sahara Desert and Canada's Northwest Territories in January. Experiencing them from a comfortable chair in front of a flat-screen television, however, is all the rage.
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MTV's fiction show effectively evokes the hot, tribal mentality of high school kids who might just redeem their adolescence with sex.
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Vivid but concentrated, this absolutely beautiful show presents, mostly through paintings, a cultureÂs version of its own origins.
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Some are unusual but compelling, while others are rather gruesome.
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Researchers are trying to turn the simulated realities of science-fiction movies into the armchair realities of everyday life
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In a boom market, a P.S. 1 show focuses on the unthinkable: artworks their creators wonât sell.
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For the past 30 years scientists have scoured the most inhospitable environments or life. Just about everywhere they look, they find it thriving in microscopic form.
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Chances are, field crews  working on most reality shows don&#39;t continually put their lives  -- or their subjects&#39; -- in as much danger as the people behind  MSNBC&#39;s documentary series &quot;Lockup.&quot;
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HBO's offbeat reality show, which follows an unusual family around, is a bit too close-up and anthropological for comfort.
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âVince Vaughnâs Wild West Comedy Showâ imagines itself a contemporary equivalent of rootinâ- tootinâ traveling entertainments like Buffalo Billâs Wild West Show. Thatâs a tall comparison to draw.
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"Jozi-H", a new television series set in a fictional Johannesburg hospital, enters a crowded genre, but this medical drama offers something different -- a glimpse at life in a society ravaged by violent crime.
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Times are a-changing in TV Land, and this company is on the cutting edge.
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LOS ANGELES  - Part sci-fi, part   mystery and wholly unique, "Heroes" is one of TV's most   imaginative creations and might, with luck, become this year's   "Lost." Its mix of danger, humor, drama, romance and science   creates a unique and surprising flavor of programming. At the   same time, it fills scene after scene with characters that   wouldn't or couldn't easily fit into any other show.
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In the world of bug-eating,  bungee-jumping reality television, here's a twist: Christian  missionaries living a travelogue life while viewers watch their  aches, pains and trials trying to spread the Gospel.
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The latest crop of workplace reality shows can be seen as a playbook for the behind-the-scenes fear and scheming at NBC and Fox.
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Off Broadwayâs latest survival strategy, called piggybacking, involves two shows saving production costs by sharing a stage and equipment.
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Back on the island, things are looking up for a show that a lot of us had almost given up on.