The Greatest Shows on Earth - Season 1

The Greatest Shows on Earth - Season 1

Season 1

Network
Episodes4
DatesJun 17, 2013 - Jul 8, 2013

Episodes

Brazil
Season 1Episode 160 min

Brazil

Daisy is in Brazil looking backstage as the country prepares to explode onto the world stage with the World Cup and Olympics in 2016 – and she finds extremes of television, from programmes objectifying and humiliating women to a bloody version of Crimewatch.

Jun 17, 2013
India
Season 1Episode 260 min

India

This week Daisy's exploring India, a nation obsessed by the small screen - from hard-hitting talk shows to countless talent shows and soap operas. In a country of 1.2 billion people, where almost every household rich or poor has a television, there's no lack of choice with a staggering 800 channels.

Jun 24, 2013
Arab World
Season 1Episode 360 min

Arab World

This week Daisy is exploring the TV of the Arab world - it's a journey that sees her sucked into the darkest of Egyptian comedy and inspired by the most sublime talent show on earth.

Jul 1, 2013
South Korea
Season 1Episode 460 min

South Korea

Daisy goes behind the scenes of TV in South Korea. She meets an online TV star who cooks - and eats - for an audience of people who live alone. And she takes a role in the top-rated TV show where six top comedians, whose sense of humour is hard for outsiders to understand, face a series of madcap challenges. With tensions between North and South Korea higher than they've been in decades, Daisy goes behind the scenes on Now on My Way to Meet You, an extraordinary Loose Women-style TV talk show featuring a panel of 15 female North Korean 'defector beauties' who chat, dance, share jokes and flirt with male celebrities. But, alongside the chat and fluff, the women also reveal shocking details of their lives in the isolated dictatorship, including torture, starvation and brainwashing, and every show ends with a defector telling their heartrending story, and often looking for lost family members. Daisy finds out about South Korea's obsession with gaming and meets a professional 'e-sport' team who live and train together 24/7 in a specially created residence and compete for hundreds of thousands of pounds in prize money, playing a sophisticated strategy shoot-em-up game on dedicated TV channels.

Jul 8, 2013

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