Game show in The Netherlands 'pits asylum seekers against each other'

listermint

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/8735932/Game-show-in-The-Netherlands-pits-asylum-seekers-against-each-other.html

A game show in The Netherlands supposedly pits failed asylum seekers against each other to win cash to spend after being deported back to their home country.

In the show called Weg van Nederland which means either Leaving the Netherlands or Mad About the Netherlands, contestants are flanked by women dressed as air hostesses as they answer questions about Dutch culture, language and history.
The would-be immigrant who has learnt the most about the Netherlands during his stay wins £3,500 to spend after deportation.
The losers win 'consolation prizes’ which include a bag of tulips bulbs and a bullet proof vest.
Among the contestants on Thursday’s pilot show on the VPRO channel is an aeronautical engineer set to be deported to Cameroon and a Slavic languages student who will be sent home to Chechnya.
VPRO editor-n-chief Frank Wiering said he was “pretty unenthusiastic” when production house Skyhigh first pitched the quiz.

Your thoughts ? Its an interesting Concept I suppose....

Snakeblood

listermint wrote: »

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/8735932/Game-show-in-The-Netherlands-pits-asylum-seekers-against-each-other.html





Your thoughts ? Its an interesting Concept I suppose....

They should arm them with nets and tridents. Old school.

Crazy Horse 6

Would love to see something along those lines here for the bankers.

Ghandee

Pilot show for RTE:

Running Roma.

Bit like Arnie in running man, only its loads of kids chasing them through Tallaght with bb guns and bottles..
The one left standing earns the right to beg at newlands cross!

thebigbiffo

those crazy foreign layabouts are good for nothing execept dumb as s'hit gameshows.

bloody Dutch.

prinz

Hardly 'pitting them against each other' if it's a quizshow for prizes. You don't say the people on winning streak are 'pitted against each other' because it's hysterical use of language to drum up controversy.

On the other hand it's shows a lack of class and tact. Dutch all over.

Rawhead

I've had an idea for a game show for years that I call " The Great Escape". The premise is that all the Nigerians in Ireland swim back home with a Traveller under each arm.

The House Of Wolves

The Dutch gave us Big Brother and XFactor. It was only a matter of time...

(I am Dutch and ashamed of the things Holland churns out. Ugh...)

entropi

I thought this was the moment I'd read about Battle Royale FINALLY happening

thebigbiffo

The House Of Wolves wrote: »

The Dutch gave us Big Brother and XFactor. It was only a matter of time...

(I am Dutch and ashamed of the things Holland churns out. Ugh...)

Xfactor

Shure doesn't that bollix cowel own that?

Paddy Cow

The House Of Wolves wrote: »

The Dutch gave us Big Brother and XFactor. It was only a matter of time...

(I am Dutch and ashamed of the things Holland churns out. Ugh...)

thebigbiffo wrote: »

Xfactor

Shure doesn't that bollix cowel own that?

The X-Factor was Cowell's brainchild. Didn't the Dutch come up with The Voice, which went to America?

AnonoBoy

"Pesky immigrants coming over here winning our gameshows."

:mad:

Richard Hillman

Would love to see this on Irish Tv. We could base it up at Mosney. Tv has gone too politically correct. RTE could make millions selling their own version abroad to countries afraid to do it themselves.

Minstrel27

Isn't The Voice coming to RTÉ also?

ejmaztec

thebigbiffo wrote: »

Xfactor

Shure doesn't that bollix cowel own that?

I think X stands for xenophobia in that post.

Glico Man

Snakeblood wrote: »

They should arm them with nets and tridents. Old school.

Fighting to the sound of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua_dSVxVehg

TheZohanS

listermint wrote: »

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Your thoughts ? Its an interesting Concept I suppose....

It's fake, just like the pretend gameshow they had for organ donations.

--Kaiser--

Snakeblood wrote: »

They should arm them with nets and tridents. Old school.

I though from the title there was an actual pit involved

upandcumming

Probably Endemol is it? I remember they pulled a great stunt for a tv show, where the winner would get a replacement kidney!
It was only a stunt to highlight the problem apparently. I was sorry it never came out!

dilallio

upandcumming wrote: »

Probably Endemol is it? I remember they pulled a great stunt for a tv show, where the winner would get a replacement kidney!
It was only a stunt to highlight the problem apparently. I was sorry it never came out!

Which - the show or the kidney?

Duggy747

Mooooooooooortal Kombat!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAwWPadFsOA

Wattle

The guy who wins the 3500 still gets deported? Wouldn't he then be a target for robbery in his home country?