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4.6 • 10K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

A TV crew offers 12 ordinary people the chance to take part in the adventure of a lifetime. But there’s a catch. The audience knows everything but the contestants are kept in the dark. As the cameras roll, no questions are allowed. Split Screen: Thrill Seekers is a new 6 part series that exposes how a TV show left contestants struggling to trust what’s actually real.

Host Nick van der Kolk (Love + Radio) asks: does reality TV only succeed when it exploits those involved? He talks to the set designers, crew, and the contestants themselves to learn what it took to permanently distort their sense of reality.

Welcome to Split Screen, an examination of the utterly captivating, sometimes unsettling world of entertainment and pop culture. From reality TV gone awry, to the cult of celebrity, each season of Split Screen takes listeners on an evocative journey inside the world of showbiz. Ex-contestants, producers, and cultural critics uncover complicated truths behind TV’s carefully curated facades, and question what our entertainment reveals about us. Split Screen: sometimes reality is twisted.

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0:12.5	Come on in. Have you seen my new living room? No? Really? You're here every day and I've never shown you my living room. Oh, nice. Have a seat. Lay back. Want a coffee? It's just I've got a lot of mail to deliver, sir. Tange, your home, your comfort zone.
0:15.0	This is a CBC podcast.
0:19.0	Hey there, I'm Nick Vanderkolk. I've been making podcasts for almost two decades now, beginning
0:28.8	with Love and Radio, which is the longest-running narrative podcast in the world.
0:33.0	I don't want to sound like some kind of hipster,
0:36.0	but I got started at this whole podcasting thing
0:38.0	way before your mom got into all those true crime shows.
0:42.0	My beat, I guess you could say, is stories that are
0:45.8	deliciously complex, absurd, and intense. And my work has gotten praised by some pretty
0:51.8	fancy people at The Guardian, the New York Times, and one time
0:55.6	the Nick Jr. blog recommended me, which is weird because a lot of my work is not very kid-friendly.
1:01.2	Anyway, right now, I want to play for you the first episode of my new
1:05.8	podcast series with CBC called Split Screen Thrill Seekers. It's a true story of a multimillion
1:12.1	dollar media experiment.
1:14.0	A TV crew offered 12 ordinary people the chance to take part in the adventure of a lifetime,
1:19.0	but there was a catch.
1:21.0	They couldn't ask any questions about what the show was actually about.
1:24.8	I would say more, but honestly, I don't want to give you any spoilers and I like for people to tell their own stories in their own words.
1:31.0	So I'm just going to shut up and let them do just that. Here's the first
1:35.0	episode of Split Screen thrill seekers.
1:54.0	I'm Nick Banderfolk. Chapter 1. Are you a thrill seeker? Hello and welcome to some.
2:14.0	How do you do it?
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