# Russian TV decides to make The Hunger Games real **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 16, 2016, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-tv-decides-to-make-the-hunger-games-real/774820 "2016-12-16T00:17:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2016, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-tv-decides-to-make-the-hunger-games-real/774820/1 "2016-12-16T00:17:10Z")
They are planning something quite different than some American “reality TV” Survivor bullshit. This one claims that a new show based in Siberia during the Winter is the real deal. \*"A new Russian reality show where crimes are “allowed” will begin next year. Game2: Winter will strand 30 contestants in the -104F (-40C) Siberian wilderness for nine months with the surviving winner receiving a $1.6m prize. It will stream 24/7 online."\* Of course, the article describing it is misleading in several ways. Crimes aren’t exactly allowed (but they aren’t going to go out of their way to prevent them either). Contestants that commit them will be prosecuted and won’t win of course. Also, -40C is nowhere near -104F (they are coincidentally the same at -40 and even Siberia doesn’t get down to -104F). However, it does sound like an elaborate and odd premise for a show if even some of it is right. It will be interesting to see if they really make it. > **[Russian reality TV show Game2: Winter to 'allow' rape and murder in Siberia](https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/dec/15/russian-reality-tv-show-allow-rape-murder-game2-winter?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark)** > > Contestants sign waiver acknowledging they may not survive nine-month Siberian wilderness challenge, and if crimes are committed, they will be arrested ---
**Author:** ![Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uosdwis_R.Dewoh)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2016, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-tv-decides-to-make-the-hunger-games-real/774820/2 "2016-12-16T01:06:58Z")
Yeah I’m calling bullshit on this one. Firstly, there’s nothing about this Russian IT-millionaire Yevgeny Pyatkovsky online except articles about the show that only reference one [Siberian Times article](http://siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/n0820-everything-is-allowed-fighting-alcohol-murder-rape-smoking-anything/). > [@](#): > > There won’t be a crew but rather 2,000 cameras dotted around the area. Each contestant will also have their own personal recording device. Willing participants need to be 18 and “mentally sane” to compete. Bullshit. > [@](#): > > “Each contestant gives consent that they could be maimed, even killed,” reads an advert. “2000 cameras, 900 hectares and 30 lives. Everything is allowed. Fighting, alcohol, murder, rape, smoking, anything.” > > Contestants will each sign a waiver acknowledging that they might be raped or killed but the rules also state that police are free to arrest anyone who commits a crime on the show. “You must understand that the police will come and take you away,” the rules state. “We are on the territory of Russia, and obey the laws of the Russian Federation.” By that same logic fighting, alcohol, murder, rape, smoking, anything is also allowed on _Family Feud_ but the police are free to arrest you. > [@](#): > > “The show promises to be international,” Pyatkovsky said. “Five countries have already expressed the desire to broadcast it for their audiences.” Bullshit. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2016, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-tv-decides-to-make-the-hunger-games-real/774820/3 "2016-12-16T01:11:26Z")
> [@](#): > > “You must understand that the police will come and take you away,” That way they can turn it into a Running Man sort of thing. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2016, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-tv-decides-to-make-the-hunger-games-real/774820/4 "2016-12-16T01:22:11Z")
Pretty sure the reason there hasn’t been a Survivor: North Pole is because people running around half naked gets more viewers. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2016, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-tv-decides-to-make-the-hunger-games-real/774820/5 "2016-12-16T03:08:24Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > Also, -40C is nowhere near -104F (they are coincidentally the same at -40 and even Siberia doesn’t get down to -104F). Looks like someone rather lazily converted 40C and got 104F, and assumed it worked the same way with negatives. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2016, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-tv-decides-to-make-the-hunger-games-real/774820/6 "2016-12-16T03:22:52Z")
I am just appalled that they claim they are going to allow explicit smoking on TV. I haven’t seen that in a while. I am not sure I will let my daughters watch it unless that part is censored. OTOH, all American “reality shows” are way too scripted and posh behind the scenes including the survival shows (I am looking at you Bear Grylls). It is time to crank things up a few notches and make a real Survivor show with a true dose of reality. I doubt that they will do it but it will be interesting if they do. They would be idiot volunteers after all and I am sure there are more than a few that would happily participate. ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2016, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-tv-decides-to-make-the-hunger-games-real/774820/7 "2016-12-16T05:02:36Z")
> [@Siberian Times via Uosdwis R. Dewoh](#): > > "Each contestant gives consent that they could be maimed, even killed,” reads an advert. So, pretty much like horse riding or rock climbing club, then? ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2016, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-tv-decides-to-make-the-hunger-games-real/774820/8 "2016-12-16T05:44:35Z")
“In post-Soviet Russia, TV show survives YOU!” ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2016, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-tv-decides-to-make-the-hunger-games-real/774820/9 "2016-12-16T06:31:28Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > -104F (-40C) This, plus the fact you got it from FARK, is the tip-off, as if one was needed, that this is fake.