Spurlock's '30 Days' on FX Menu ("Super Size Me" Director)

[Khephra]

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The FX cable channel has ordered six episodes of "30 Days," a documentary-style, reality series from the director of fast-food expose "Super Size Me."

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While "Super Size Me" centered on the damaging effects of Spurlock eating three meals a day at McDonald's for a month, "30 Days" plants an individual into a lifestyle that is completely different from his or her upbringing, beliefs, religion or profession. For example, in the pilot a Christian insurance salesman from West Virginia lives with a Muslim family in Michigan.


http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=televisionNews&storyID=6962102

[WildClarySage]

1. christian insurance salesman from WV?

Holy crap, Dad, why didn't ya tell me you were gonna be on TV?

[sui generis]

2. what a great idea

how about getting Sean Hannity to come live with a couple of progressive opinionated queers here in Dallas for a month? It would get great ratings, especially the part where after weeks of screaming matches, scorched souffles, intentionally misplaced hair gel, the episode where the cat pees in his shoe (or did it?), and the last straw - getting V-Chipped while watching television so the only things he can watch are rated G or lower, he "accidentally" falls in the pool while using the electric blower. Or was it an accident?

[Chovexani]

3. This sounds like a teen show I saw on Noggin once

I forget exactly what it was called, but various teens would literally walk a day in someone else's shoes. It was really interesting, one girl wore a fat suit for a day (it was fairly convincing too), and it really made her think about how she treated overweight people.