Interactive Premiere of ‘The Escape’ On BlogTV
Posted by REALITY REHASH on December 31, 2008 under Reality
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Billed as “the Internets first interactive reality tv show”, The Escape premiered last night on BlogTV. Although shrouded in controversy, like many other mainstream reality shows, The Escape is an all internet show similar to Voyeur. The main difference is that the show is filmed live on location rather then through webcams. The concept takes seven internet celebrities (ok only five are) and locks them into an abandoned office building. Here they must live for a week, voting off fellow cast mates and searching for clues to release themselves from their dwelling. As cast members are eliminated they must give all their knowledge to one other cast member. When it gets down to only two players the one with the most knowledge of how to escape will win the game.
On the premiere episode we met the seven participants. Steven Binko hosts the game and is present in many of the shots as well. The seven players are BlogTV broadcasters: Chuck, Joey, Amanda, Jordan and Shane with two locals to Florida also joining the cast: Rob and Joleen. After being awoken from their hotel room, the cast was then blindfolded and led to their new home for a week. After three were locked in a cage, three tied together in shackles and straight jackets and one locked into a wooden coffin, the blindfolds were removed. Their first challenge was on and it was for reward. If all the cast could be freed within 10 minutes their personal belongings would be returned. If not, they would not see their cell phones and other items for the remainder of the week.
The three in the cage were Chuck, Jordan and Amanda. They worked well at first to help get a few of the shackled players free being Joleen, Shane and I think Joey. I’m not sure if Joey or Rob was in the coffin but they didn’t get free for the first five minutes. Everything seemed to be going well as two of the three shackled players were completely free quickly and the third was released after the coffin. The main issue was with the caged players who had the numbers to a combination lock on their blindfolds. They tried the right combo several times, supposedly, but Joleen got it unlocked in the end by forcefully pulling the lock apart. With all seven free Steven returned to let them know how they did. He told them that they finished just over 15 minutes, meaning their personal items were lost for the week.
None of the cast took the news well and blamed a faulty lock for their loss. It seems they tried the lock several times, with the right combination, it just took a little extra pull to get it apart. The end of the first episode featured confessionals from the cast. The one from the coffin was not too happy as he felt had he been set free earlier they could have win. Several others also were unhappy but felt they performed as well as they could, mostly those from the game. Chuck and Amanda ended the episode by discussing alliances. None believe alliances are going to help as there are only seven cast members but you never know. Before the episode left Steven returned to let the cast know that clues to escaping are all around them. A few found pictures of infamous BlogTV broadcaster Dee_InBC laying on the floor. Chuck let everyone know his bad times with Dee and Amanda agreed. Only question is, will those not from BlogTV, especially Rob and Joleen even know who these people are and the clues they may lead too?
The Escape airs news episodes here on BlogTV every Tuesday at 9pm est.
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Part One
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