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Rede Record, Globo’s major competitor, has come out with a new reality show to rival Globo’s Big Brother series. The show, called A Fazenda, is like Big Brother, but the participants are famous Brazilian actors and actresses who live together on a farm in rural Sao Paulo, rather than in a house on a set. (For those not familiar with Brazilian soap stars, you may know Jonathan Haagensen, from City of God.) They have to run the farm, getting up early, taking care of the animals, planting, and taking on the roles of actual farmers. The participants are voted off by the viewers, leaving an eventual winner who wins R$1 million.
Check out some scenes from the show, below.
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The latest American reality show to be adapted in Brazil is “Miami Ink,” which has become “Rio Ink” on Brazil’s People and Arts channel. Like the American version, the show follows the day-to-day operations of a tattoo shop, this time the Bonzai in Ipanema.
Over 22,000 people applied to be on the show, but the producers only picked twelve of the most interesting clients, and only six will be featured. The tattoo artists, which include the famed Lúcio Tatoo, had different requests than their American counterparts, which included Iemanjá, an Afro-Brazilian diety, and the Flamengo soccer team emblem.
The show is due to air later this year. To see the official site, click here.
