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[Brugdor]

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i7e5a336a9153b9a5744dcab807673361

'Secret Millionaire' set for Fox
Reality series is a modern 'Prince and the Pauper'

By James Hibberd

May 13, 2008, 01:00 AM

"Secret Millionaire"
Fox's newest reality experiment is a modern-day twist on "The Prince and the Pauper."

The network is set to announce "Secret Millionaire," a new series from RDF USA in which wealthy benefactors go undercover in impoverished neighborhoods. For about 10 days, a multimillionaire meets financially destitute locals and experiences what it's like to live on a meager budget for the first time in their lives. At the show's conclusion, the millionaire reveals his true identity to the community and gives a minimum of $100,000 of his own money to at least one deserving person.

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Interesting idea if it's done right.

[BlueCross]

bah...

*doesn't have a big enough cynic hat to wear properly*

*avoids these kinds of shows like the plague*

*if it doesn't have a ball that people hit or throw, or enough gratuitous T&A, then it's not worth watching*

[AcdQueen89]

didnt oprah just do soemthing like that?

[Jeff]

The network is set to announce "Secret Millionaire," a new series from RDF USA in which wealthy benefactors go undercover in impoverished neighborhoods. For about 10 days, a multimillionaire meets financially destitute locals and experiences what it's like to live on a meager budget for the first time in their lives. At the show's conclusion, the millionaire reveals his true identity to the community and gives a minimum of $100,000 of his own money to at least one deserving person.[/i]

This premise is breathtakingly arrogant and astoundingly absurd.

[Brugdor]

The network is set to announce "Secret Millionaire," a new series from RDF USA in which wealthy benefactors go undercover in impoverished neighborhoods. For about 10 days, a multimillionaire meets financially destitute locals and experiences what it's like to live on a meager budget for the first time in their lives. At the show's conclusion, the millionaire reveals his true identity to the community and gives a minimum of $100,000 of his own money to at least one deserving person.[/i]

This premise is breathtakingly arrogant and astoundingly absurd.

It will all depend on how they do it. The end result is that some homeless person(s) will be getting enough money to turn their lives around and someone with a lot of money might be more inclined to care about people that they probably didn't think much about previously. Also hopefully it will effect the viewers in such a way that they'd want to help.

[BlueCross]

*replaces Cynical Hat with Even Bigger Cynical Hat*

[Solwyn]

*replaces Cynical Hat with Even Bigger Cynical Hat*

I doubt it's that big.

[Hoopy Frood]

*replaces Cynical Hat with Even Bigger Cynical Hat*

I doubt it's that big.

He's just compensating.

[BlueCross]

Apologies are in order:

[The SysMan]

Man, Did you see that guys computer?
That stuff is freaking ancient, man!

[TK]

A program very much like it has been on the go for a while here, I suppose it's a worthy thing but it just seems like a vehicle for rich folk to get all misty eyed and sentimental about the poor little disadvantaged people they meet. 

I believe it gives some eposure to charities etc too; but honestly instead of pouring out your heart, in something I can only see as contrived and fundamentally insincere, they should go and experience the life of other people away from this little PR vehicle, and then publically endorse whatever cause they end up supporting.  I'd have more resepect for someone who says, "I'm giving money to this or that because I believe in it" than I would for someone who's came on TV just to try to prove that they are human, the whole 'unintentional' positive PR is what irks me.