| REALITY TV phenomenon Big Brother could go on forever in a new version of the show planned in Germany. Instead of candidates living for several weeks inside a compound, German media reports say producers of the show are building a small town, complete with market square, church, shops, workplaces and a small forest. Contestants will be able to live in the town for decades, study or go to work, get married, have families and go about their everyday lives — in fact theoretically stay in their artificial world until they die. The planned format has drawn comparisons with the 1988 Hollywood film The Truman Show starring Jim Carrey, who is unwittingly the subject of a 24-hour television "reality" program. Production firm Endemol confirmed it was planning to launch the new Big Brother version in February or March next year in what the company's general manager for Germany, Borris Brandt, describes as similar to a soap series but "real, with real people". |