Split Screen: Thrill Seekers from the CBC
Snap Judgment
Snap Judgment and PRX
4.8 • 11.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Would you go on a reality show if you didn’t know what it was about? Even if they promised you the adventure of a lifetime? In 2005, 12 people did just that. They answered an ad that read “Thrill Seekers wanted” and began auditioning for a show unlike any other in British television history.
This week on Snap, we're featuring Split Screen: Thrill Seekers, a new six part series that exposes how a TV show left contestants struggling to trust what’s actually real! Split Screen: Thrill Seekers is a co-production of Love + Radio and Vespucci for the CBC. All six episodes are out now and available wherever you get your podcasts!
This episode contains strong language, sensitive listeners please be advised.
The series producer is Meera Kumar. The story editors are Thomas Curry and Steven Jackson. Thomas Curry is the managing producer.
Audio mix and sound-design by Steven Jackson. Featured music from the RVNG catalog. Artwork by Anthony Campbell.
The staff of CBC Podcasts are senior producer Kate Evans, coordinating producer Anna Ashitey, Senior Manager Tanya Springer and director Arif Noorani.
The executive producers for Split Screen: Thrill Seekers are Chris Oke and Cesil Fernandes from the CBC, Matt Willis, Daniel Turcan and Johnny Galvin from Vespucci, and from Love + Radio, Nick van der Kolk.
Guest Interviews: Louise Dekker, Ryan McBride, Steve Hester, Charlie Skelton.
Season 15 - Episode 51
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| 0:00.0 | Snap Studios |
| 0:07.0 | Okay, so back in the day, I have a friend. |
| 0:12.0 | Really a friend of a friend. |
| 0:14.0 | She's super cute. |
| 0:15.0 | She shoots me down a couple times, but one day, out of the blue, |
| 0:19.0 | she leaves a message, talking about she has a big opportunity for me. |
| 0:23.8 | Okay. |
| 0:25.0 | I get her on the line and now she's a junior assistant casting director, right? |
| 0:31.0 | Fancy. |
| 0:32.3 | Since she has a role she thinks I'd be great for. |
| 0:36.2 | A role? |
| 0:42.1 | Acting Hollywood? For real, no doubt, I can act like crazy. Call me De Niro Denzel. She's like, well, not exactly acting. It's kind of a game show. A game show. |
| 0:50.5 | But not in the studio. And how good are you at camping? What? How far can you swim? Swim? Let me just send you the |
| 0:58.4 | material, okay? Whatever. I get the packet. It's asking about allergies and how many push-ups I can do. |
| 1:07.9 | And would I eat a horse? Would I eat a dog? All this stuff. And it finishes |
| 1:12.6 | with an arbitration agreement for me to sign in case of my severe injury or death. Nah, |
| 1:19.7 | nah, son, I know some nonsense when I see it. So I throw that noise in the trash. Then a few |
| 1:27.1 | months later, a new show comes out. |
| 1:30.5 | It's called Survivor. |
| 1:33.4 | And it changes the face of television. |
| 1:36.6 | The granddaddy of reality shows, everything from Big Brother to Amazing Race, the Bachelor, Housewives, |
| 1:46.3 | even the office and modern family, |
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