Channel cashes in on recession with reality show where staff of struggling companies choose who to fire
Channel cashes in on recession with reality show where staff of struggling companies choose who to fire A new reality show from the Dutch-based creator of the hit TV series Big Brother will allow staff at companies struggling in the global recession to choose which colleague should be fired.
In each episode of Someone's Gotta Go, produced by Endemol, workers at a struggling business will choose who should get a salary cut or raise and who should be fired based on information about pay and past performance.
"It will be an interesting experiment to reverse the power roles," said an Endemol spokesman.
Endemol, which developed internationally popular reality show formats such as Big Brother and game show Wipeout, has sold the format to Fox Television in the United States and hopes to broadcast it in other countries, the spokesman said.
Fox says it has no air date yet, but the show format reportedly has a different company laying off an employee each week.
