Today, the wife and I started to watch the TV show "Siberia", which is supposed to be about a reality show in Siberia, Russia and it had real contestants.
Right off the bat, I thought something was wrong when the helicopter they were using had English on it instead of Russian and it went downhill for the rest of episodes we watched.
Well, Siberia was not filmed in Siberia, instead it was filmed in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
From News Max: "Siberia," NBC's new summer series that premiered Monday, is already drawing scorn from its namesake region, which accused the TV show of keeping with "the U.S. stereotype of Siberia mixed with a cocktail of Hollywood horrors and then frozen in a Cold War time warp."
Almost like "Survivor" gone wrong, the scripted drama tells the story of a fictional reality TV series in which 16 contestants must survive in what is purportedly the Siberian territory of Tunguska to win the $500,000 prize.
The only problem? The show was filmed in Manitoba, Canada, and Russians are not happy about it.
"U.S. viewers are conned into believing the action is in Siberia, which is after all the name of the show. In reality, this faux-reality show was filmed on the other side of the world, in a Canadian prairie province," a Siberian Times review reads. "It is Siberia's image in the world which takes another hit. Just at a time when it is rightly recovering a more positive image around the world, with inward investment and foreign tourism growing significantly. These investors and tourists come in search of the real modern Siberia, unlike the makers of this TV fake."
Read Latest Breaking News from Newsmax.com http://www.newsmax.com/thewire/siberia-tv-show-filmed/2013/07/02/id/512958#ixzz2aW3BHSlP
This really doesn't give me great confidence that NBC will be very truthful when it comes the Hillary mini-series scheduled just before the 2016 presidential elections.
But who knows, maybe they will make it into a reality TV show instead. Maybe Bill&Hillary& Cigars? How about "How many diplomats can you get killed in a foreign country"? Or perhaps: "How Many People Can I Fool At 1 Time?"
I'm open to other suggestions.
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