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ABC Brat Camp
Anonymous:
The ABC version of Brat Camp is set to air soon:
http://www.realitytvworld.com/index/art ... php?s=3452
Sometime in July, ABC will debut its other two summer reality series -- Brat Camp and Welcome To The Neighborhood.
Like Dancing With The Stars, Brat Camp is based on a United Kingdom program of the same name created by Twenty Twenty Productions. Produced stateside by Arnold Shapiro and Allison Grodner (the same folks responsible for the last four editions of CBS's Big Brother, UPN's The Road To Stardom With Missy Elliott, Bravo's Blow Out, etc.), Brat Camp will follow six families that decide to send their troubled teenagers to the Sagewalk Wilderness Therapy Camp, a therapeutic wilderness intervention program located in the high desert country of Central Oregon.
"This show will feel more like a documentary than most reality shows," said Wong told Daily Variety when the network first announced plans for the show back in January. "It won't feel as fabricated."
If the concept sounds familiar to some diehard reality viewers, it should -- the network's ABC Family cable channel aired broadcasts of the original UK Brat Camp series earlier this year.
According to Variety, the nine participants range in ages between 14 and 19, and while they're not delinquents, Grodner stated that "virtually all of them are doing illegal things involving drugs and alcohol."
Despite the fact that ABC describes Sagewalk as a "boot camp-style program" in its press announcement, Grodner had stressed to Variety that the program wasn't an adolescent boot camp. "This is not about yelling or screaming at kids. It's not a military camp," she told the trade paper. "It's about taking kids out of their comfort zone, getting them back to basics and helping them learn how to face their issues."
Anonymous:
I feel like I woke up in Orwell's 1984 recently.
Anonymous:
http://www.thefutoncritic.com/cgi/pr.cg ... 50526abc03
ABC TO PREMIERE A NEW REALITY SERIES, ?BRAT CAMP," WEDNESDAY, JULY 13
Released by ABC
What would you do with a teen that curses at you, breaks the law in your house and doesn?t listen to anything you say? That?s the dilemma facing six families with out-of-control teenagers in ABC?s new reality series, ?Brat Camp,? announced today to premiere with a two-hour special broadcast, WEDNESDAY, JULY 13 (8:00-10:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network. The six families make that tough choice and decide to send their kids to Sagewalk Wilderness Therapy Camp, a boot camp-style program in the wilds of Oregon, in the desperate hope that, once it?s over, they will get back the children they once knew and loved.
::puke::
?Brat Camp? is from Shapiro/Grodner Productions and Twenty Twenty Productions with Arnold Shapiro, Allison Grodner, Peter Casely-Hayford, Jamie Isaacs and Claudia Milne serving as executive producers.
Nihilanthic:
Orwell? you betcha! Nothing like doublespeak.
"This is not about yelling or screaming at kids. It's not a military camp," she told the trade paper. "It's about taking kids out of their comfort zone, getting them back to basics and helping them learn how to face their issues."
It is not about breaking them down... oh, it IS about breaking them down. Both states at once... so its quantum bullshit? :lol:
Now, this little gem of a line here makes me laugh:
--- Quote ---The six families make that tough choice and decide to send their kids to Sagewalk Wilderness Therapy Camp, a boot camp-style program in the wilds of Oregon, in the desperate hope that, once it?s over, they will get back the children they once knew and loved.
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So, it IS a boot camp? LOL. Aaanyway... why do rational human beings listen to bullshit such as "we desperately hope that once its over, we'll get back the children we once knew and loved."
So, no idea about how it works, no details whatsoever, except it is what it isn't, and it isn't what it is, and these teenagers are going to just MAGICALLY turn back into the kids they once knew? Hallelujah! What a lovely innocent way to say that they want their kid 'broken down' and regressed into a childlike state. Hmm, where have I seen that before?
Oh yeah, psychological regression is brainwashing, and the north koreans pioneered this bullshit, and we've been messing with it in various forms (SEED, Straight, et all) for decades.
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Anonymous:
Just wanted to point out that it appears you are confusing TWO DIFFERENT TELEVISION SHOWS.
The original "Brat Camp" was an English show featuring SIX familes who sent their kids to a 'bootcamp' in the States...it won some awards in Europe, and had a repeat airing several months ago on the ABC Family Channel (hence the confusion).
The UPCOMING "BRAT CAMP" is produced by Shapiro/Grodner Productions and sends NINE kids to a camp in Oregon called Sagewalk, which, for the record, is NOT a bootcamp...but is indeed an award winning wilderness therapy program, where certified clinical therapists try to help troubled teens deal with the difficult issues of their lives. No one is yelling at these kids or telling them to "drop and give me 20!" No double-speak intended, it just may be that your definition of a "bootcamp" is different than mine.
This new "BRAT CAMP" is a well-made, uplifting and emotional series...and you might want to watch an episode or two before making premature judgements based on incomplete 'research.'
I'm not trying to brainwash you or anything...it's just that you might actually like it! I hope you do anyway. It was a labor of love for all involved. And I'm very proud of this show.
Sincerely,
John Platt
Co-Executive Producer, "Brat Camp" (the new American one...!)
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