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3.4 REALITY PROGRAMMING<br />
Reality shows, which are engineered to be suspenseful from episode to episode,<br />
lend themselves extremely well to viewer interaction, as they typically amass a loyal<br />
audience base through the season. In many reality programs, contestants on the show are<br />
pitted against one another. Audiences have been eager to speculate, for example, which<br />
suitor the bachelor/bachelorette will eliminate next, who will be fired from the job, who<br />
will win the ultimate prize, etc. Some reality programs allow votes from viewers to<br />
determine, in part, the path of future episodes. Within this genre, ABC Enhanced TV has<br />
offered interactivity for Super Millionaire, The Bachelor, The Bachelorette, and Celebrity<br />
Mole: Yucatan, among others.<br />
3.4.1 Representative Example for Reality Programming: Celebrity Mole: Yucatan<br />
Network: ABC<br />
Platform: Microsoft Media Center<br />
(a) (b)<br />
Figure 3.6 Celebrity Mole: Yucatan (a) and (b)<br />
In 2003, ABC Enhanced TV collaborated with the AFI eTV workshop and<br />
deployed an enhanced version of Celebrity Mole: Yucatan (see Figure 3.6). It was the<br />
first prototype from the AFI eTV workshop to ever be deployed in the market. In addition<br />
to being available on ABC’s proprietary two-screen interactive television platform, the<br />
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