[Mark]

A French TV network is planning to screen a literary take on Big Brother.

Do You Know The Story? will involve four authors being filmed trying to write a collective novel while trapped in a country house near Paris.

They will have just four days to produce a 10-page novella.

Producer Antoine Henriquet told The Observer: "We are not influenced by the shallow, sensationalist agenda of Big Brother.

"There will be four bedrooms in the house, which the writers will be expected to keep to."

The names of the four chosen authors are being kept secret.

But they will be a mix of men and women, experienced writers and beginners.

British authors seem sceptical of the producers' aims and quality of the programme itself.

Whitbread judge Tobias Hill said: "This sounds atrocious; the only thing more boring than watching writers write would be watching paint dry.

"I can't imagine any decent writer agreeing to do it."

<<Article from Ananova>>

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Should be interesting....or not. Will make good TV watching people write books!

And what do they mean by "We are not influenced by the shallow, sensationalist agenda of Big Brother." Whats the bet she used to be a journalist...

What are your views?

Mark
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