Wetlook World Forum

Current time: Sat 20/04/24 10:43:46 GMT

Translate page FROM -> TO

Translate page TO <- FROM

Message # 15830.2.1

Subject: Re: Re: Ciao Darwin - around the world - status report

Date: Sun 01/05/05 11:56:16 GMT

Name: MK

Email: wamtec@compuserve.com

Website:

Report Abuse or Problem to Nigel at Minxmovies
If you enjoy this forum, then please make a small donation to help
with running costs: (you can change amount)

FYI...in the Italian version they always have this "going back in time" segment where the contestant go back to an earlier time period...e.g. like a Roman setting...and then they have a naked girl in a bubble bath and in the shower....the nudity has no relevance at all to the show....so it does not matter they they drop the nudity in the other versions shown in other countries.

As to why it is unfit for the USA.....very simple...most Italian and Latin American shows are very balatantly sexist and love to show parades of scantily clad ladies in lingerie and bikinis etc. This kind of thing is no longer "in vogue" in the UK and USA any more.

The best example being....look what happened to poor BENNY HILL. His shows were always titilating and featuring scantily clad ladies...and were deemed as great fun in the 1970's and early 80's.....and then....suddenly in the mid 1980's....the UK suddenly cancelled The Benny Hill show...due to pressure from womens' groups...and so Benny went off the air in the mid 1980's...cos the very same scenes that were deemed to be "great fun" in the 1970's....i.e. girls in short skirts and stockings being oggled at....were suddenly deemed to be "sexist and inappropriate".....so Benny had his tv show cancelled...and he died only a few years later.

The "rule of thumb" with UK and American gameshows now seems to be....you can have wet or messy scenes.....but ONLY when the girls are not made to look sexy....i.e. no nice clothing is allowed. You can only have wet or messy scenes when you make the scenes "gender neutral"....i.e. girls must wear the same ugly sweat pants or jogging suits that the guys do...and then they must wear HELMETS and GOGGLES and ARMPADS and KNEE PADS.....so....if you make the girl look like "The Michelin Man"...thats acceptable....but she cannot look sexy and wear some nice clothing...cos then it because a sexy scene...and they don't want that to happen.

In reply to Message (15830.2)

Re: Ciao Darwin - around the world - status report

By Alabama - Sun 01/05/05 10:01:10 GMT

Website:

Poland's law does not allow nudity before 11PM on regular channels as TVN and we don't have any topless women in our version... I really don't see why it's unfit foe the USA :-/

Mike.

In reply to Message (15830)

Ciao Darwin - around the world - status report

By MK - wamtec@compuserve.com Sun 01/05/05 09:03:49 GMT

Website: http://ciaodarwin.onet.pl/_i/k1/akwarium/1.jpg

For those of you who enjoy the CIAO DARWIN gameshow with the well dressed ladies in the flooding water tank scenes

http://ciaodarwin.onet.pl/_i/k1/akwarium/1.jpg

....here is a status report on how this show (originally created in Italy) has now been sold to many other countries...where we have folks taping those shows, where are have nobody taping those shows, and where future NEW versions of the show will soon be appearing..

ITALY: (Original version of the show)....currently we have collectors taping all the Italian version of this show, so we have this well covered. Check the MEDIASET channel in Italy if you wish to tune in.

POLAND: The polish version of this show is being taped by Mario and many of these scenes are even better than Italian version. Check the TVN channel in Poland if you wish to tune in.

ROMANIA: The Romanian version of this show is being taped by EuroWAM TEAM and he has sent me many of the Romanian scenes and those are great too.

MEXICO: I have been taping all the Mexican shows for the last 3-4 months....they were originally being aired on the Galavision network, but last month they have moved this show over to the UNIVSION channel instead.

HUNGARY: This is the one series we are missing. The Hungarian version of this show probably has some of the best scenes ever...check the Hungarian Ciao Darwin website.....but nobody in Hungary is taping these scenes and saving them. EuroWAM TEAM in Romania is not able to receive the Hungarian tv channels...neither can Mario in Poland....so we need somebody from Hungary on this forum to start saving them.

RUSSIA - FUTURE SHOW....COMING THIS SUMMER: I just read a press release last week.....issued by the original producers of the series in Italy...and they say they have just sold the rights to this show to be made in a Russian version on the NTV network in Russia. So...if you live in Russia...watch for a Russian version of the Ciao Darwin water tank show on the NTV network later this year. FYI...NTV channel is also broadcast on digital satellite thru out Europe and I can also receive NTV on my dish in Florida too....so if nobody from Russia is taping these scenes...I will do it myself on my dish system.

GERMANY - FUTURE SHOW....COMING THIS SUMMER: Likewise...in the same press release...the Italian owners of Ciao Darwin say they have also signed a deal to sell this show to German television too. They did not mention which channel....but it will probably be ZDF or RTL...so those of you in Germany should see a German version coming later this year.

Sadly.....no news of any "American" or UK version for this show.....they don't go for gameshows like this in the USA any more....cos I guess they feel this is politically incorrect.....feminists would complain that this show exploits women...e.g. the Italian version of this show has topless nudity during some of the games...there is no way they would allow that in an american gameshow.

Report Abuse or Problem to Nigel at Minxmovies
If you enjoy this forum, then please make a small donation to help with running costs: (you can change amount)