Taxi Orange (2000)

Country

Austria

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of people are locked in a house in Vienna and can only leave to drive an orange taxi. Each week viewers vote for a winner who then decides who gets kicked out of the show. The last person standing wins a cash prize.

reality-stylecompetitiveobservationallow-stakeseverydaysocial-dynamicinteractive

What happens

Taxi Orange was an alternative to the Big Brother reality show. It was broadcast by the public television channel ORF. The idea, like Big Brother, was to lock up a group of people in a closed environment, only allowed to leave operating an orange taxi within the city of Vienna as a source of income and interaction with the world outside. The habitat and the taxi interior were videotaped and used to produce a 30-minute daily summary. Each week, viewers elected a winner who had to decide on the exclusion of one colleague. The winner received 1 million Schillings. Two seasons (2000, 2001) were produced. The show was adapted into Turkish as "Biri Bizi Gözetliyor" (Someone is watching us). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

More like this

• Die Millionenshow (2000)
• The Bar (2000)
• Die Lugners (2003)
• Manhunt
• Foreigners out! Schlingensiefs Container (2002)
• Wahlfahrt
• Die Burg (2005)
• Dolce Vita & Co (2001)