All I know is that we DO watch them. And we don't know that the audiences are completely manipulated.
>Then why do the Dutch watch American tv shows and movies?
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>>Charles, thank you for this reply. Finally a serious one. Although I liked reading all, I comment on only one paragraph, to keep it focussed.
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>>>You don't think they could get that kind of Dutch audience becuase no one who knows how has bothered to try. But I assure you, if the Dutch market were large enough that anyone cared to do it, it would not be hard to find enough people to fill a studio audience or a contestant list for pretty much anything. I bet it wasn't hard to find grunge or punk or hiphop clubs in Amsterdam over the years.
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>>I think that Dutch culture won't tolerate it. We'd feel and show aversion about such manipulation. There have been cases where 'we' discovered only afterwards that outcomes were setups, were manipulated. People felt betrayed and showed their disdain, which was esp. targeted at the hosts and producers.
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>>>And I apologize for hip hop.
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>>Apologies accepted. :)
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