Truth Or Consequences
Series title: Life's A Zoo.Tv
- Studio
- Cuppa Coffee Animation
Synopsis
Truth is stranger than fiction unless it's not true.
Featured Band: Hello Operator: "Chasing Satellites"
Featured Band: Hello Operator: "Chasing Satellites"
Characters
Ray, Jake, Morreski, Chi Chi, Dr. D, Rico, Minou, Claude, Bobbie
Production notes
Claymation series.
Take seven characters, lock them in a mansion, jam in elements of all your favorite reality shows, then watch the fur and feathers fly as they battle for 15 minutes of reality fame. Life's a Zoo.tv comes to you from a luxurious, gigantic mansion built in the middle of a wheat field in Saskatchewan. The housemates feature all your reality regulars - the vain, the villainous, the weak, the manic, the jock and the just plain stupid - all forging alliances, exposing their secrets and double dealing in a desperate bid to become top of the reality food chain and aboid being made extinct. It's reality gone wild and human nature at its best - and worst - with the added twist that they happen to be a bunch of animals. Conflict, drama and absurd humor are captured as hundreds of cameras follow this dysfunctional group. This is voyeuristic entertainment stripped bare with the kind of random twists and moments that you've come to enjoy from reality TV- but you've never seen it animated like this before! And there's more: each episode features an original music video from 20 hot indie bands. Life's a Zoo.tv- it's reality gone wild!
Aired during Teletoon's Detour programming block.
Adam Shaheen, the creator of the series, has never been to Saskatchewan, but said that the remote setting would assist in character development.
"Sure, we placed it in a wheat field in Saskatchewan as a slightly comic premise, but more to work with the fact that these characters have nowhere else to go. We needed isolation," he said.
He added: "Reality shows tend to be set in Las Vegas, or L.A. It's palm trees; it's glitz. We wanted to do something different."
Shaheen was determined that the series not be set in Toronto, his adopted home town: "It's the last place in the world that I would have set this show. I couldn't think of anything less interesting."
Take seven characters, lock them in a mansion, jam in elements of all your favorite reality shows, then watch the fur and feathers fly as they battle for 15 minutes of reality fame. Life's a Zoo.tv comes to you from a luxurious, gigantic mansion built in the middle of a wheat field in Saskatchewan. The housemates feature all your reality regulars - the vain, the villainous, the weak, the manic, the jock and the just plain stupid - all forging alliances, exposing their secrets and double dealing in a desperate bid to become top of the reality food chain and aboid being made extinct. It's reality gone wild and human nature at its best - and worst - with the added twist that they happen to be a bunch of animals. Conflict, drama and absurd humor are captured as hundreds of cameras follow this dysfunctional group. This is voyeuristic entertainment stripped bare with the kind of random twists and moments that you've come to enjoy from reality TV- but you've never seen it animated like this before! And there's more: each episode features an original music video from 20 hot indie bands. Life's a Zoo.tv- it's reality gone wild!
Aired during Teletoon's Detour programming block.
Adam Shaheen, the creator of the series, has never been to Saskatchewan, but said that the remote setting would assist in character development.
"Sure, we placed it in a wheat field in Saskatchewan as a slightly comic premise, but more to work with the fact that these characters have nowhere else to go. We needed isolation," he said.
He added: "Reality shows tend to be set in Las Vegas, or L.A. It's palm trees; it's glitz. We wanted to do something different."
Shaheen was determined that the series not be set in Toronto, his adopted home town: "It's the last place in the world that I would have set this show. I couldn't think of anything less interesting."