I'm really excited to see a new season of 30 Days this fall!
30 Days is a TV show created by Morgan Spurlock. He made the documentary Supersize Me, where he showed the effects of eating only McDonald's food for 30 days. Now he has a TV series where people walk in each other's shoes for a month long period. I like it because the people on the show tend to lose a lot of their prejudices, and it can be an eye-opener for viewers. Oprah has frequently featured the people who have appeared on 30 Days on her show.
Last season began with Morgan and his girlfriend living on minimum wage for 30 days. There was also a man who undertook an anti-aging regimine, a Christian man who moved in with a Muslim couple, a straight man who moved in with a gay man, a convenience-loving couple who went to live on an eco-farm, and a mom who took up binge drinking to try to convince her college student daughter to stop.
This season will feature a man spending a month with a family of illegal immigrants, an unemployed man travelling to India to see the other side of outsourcing, an atheist living with a Christian family, a man using new-age methods to improve his personal well being, and a pro-choice advocate living in a pro-life home for pregnant women. The season will conclude with Morgan Spurlock going to county jail for 30 days.
Morgan is also currently working on another feature length documentary about the commercialization of Christmas called What Would Jesus Buy?. This film is due out at the end of 2006.
30 Days is a TV show created by Morgan Spurlock. He made the documentary Supersize Me, where he showed the effects of eating only McDonald's food for 30 days. Now he has a TV series where people walk in each other's shoes for a month long period. I like it because the people on the show tend to lose a lot of their prejudices, and it can be an eye-opener for viewers. Oprah has frequently featured the people who have appeared on 30 Days on her show.
Last season began with Morgan and his girlfriend living on minimum wage for 30 days. There was also a man who undertook an anti-aging regimine, a Christian man who moved in with a Muslim couple, a straight man who moved in with a gay man, a convenience-loving couple who went to live on an eco-farm, and a mom who took up binge drinking to try to convince her college student daughter to stop.
This season will feature a man spending a month with a family of illegal immigrants, an unemployed man travelling to India to see the other side of outsourcing, an atheist living with a Christian family, a man using new-age methods to improve his personal well being, and a pro-choice advocate living in a pro-life home for pregnant women. The season will conclude with Morgan Spurlock going to county jail for 30 days.
Morgan is also currently working on another feature length documentary about the commercialization of Christmas called What Would Jesus Buy?. This film is due out at the end of 2006.
posted by Karen | Sunday, August 27, 2006
1 Comments:
I haven't seen any of those shows, but they sound interesting. I liked the movie he did earlier... so I may have to "stay up late" and catch one or two. We used to watch Wife Swap once in a while which is similar, but its only for a short time. Usually the people trading went to families that were the opposite of their home family.
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