Underplayed Gems

The Bar (2000)

The Bar poster
Original title
Baren
Genre
reality television
Country
Sweden
Length
6 seasons, 399 episodes
Rating
6.8 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
The 3D catalogue: film cases on wooden shelves, with the cat sitting at the counter next to its greeting.

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

Contestants live together and run a bar for two months. Each week the public votes to evict someone, and the last person standing wins a cash prize.

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What happens

The Bar (Swedish: Baren) is a reality competition television franchise that originated in Sweden in 2000. It also started to air in Norway the same year and was developed in other countries starting from 2001. The premise of the show is that for around two months, a number of contestants work in a bar while attempting to avoid periodic public-vote evictions from a communal house and hence win a cash prize. The show was devised by the Swedish company Strix. The show first aired on TV3 Sweden on 24 April 2000. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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