| Mumbai:
Zone Reality, which focusses on real life programming, has launched new shows.
The new
line of reality shows cuts across many genres including rescue and survival, crime
and human interest. The four new shows launched are Treasure Island: Couples
at War, Weirdest Phobias, Saving Life and Limb and Prison
Week. Zonemedia
marketing director Flecka Picardo says that improvisation of subject matter is
the unique characteristic of the channel. "We are constantly looking at diverse
subjects so that we can strengthen our programming range. We ensure that the treatment
in terms of programming with respect to all our shows is such that the real life
element is overriding in each show.”
Treasure
Island airs till 18 May at 6:55 pm. This sees couples pitted against other
couples in a elimination based game show on a remote uninhabited island. Eight
abandoned couples embark on a 10-week mission to uncover a crashed plane's missing
cargo, the missing crew and the secret of Treasure Island. The
couples must survive inhospitable conditions, team challenges, chief challenges,
elimination challenges and each other, as they work to piece together the treasure
map. Surviving each other proves more of a challenge than the dangers of any remote
island.
Weirdest Phobias airs on 19 May at 8:10 pm. follows three people as they
battle to overcome their absurd irrational fears of perfectly harmless objects.
Most people are afraid of something. Often phobias are sparked by a traumatic
experience but in some cases are simply in-built fears. The
show tells the story of Sue’s phobia of knees. She doesn’t’ touch
her own knees, hates the sight of them and repulses at the sound of the words
knee cap. The show follows Sue as she invites a therapist into her home to help
her overcome her fear and allow her to live a life not so knee-cap focussed.
Prison
Week meanwhile profiles three women awaiting execution, each convicted of
committing murder. This programme retells their stories and examines the contradiction
between the feminine, maternal and in most cases, loving aspects of womanhood,
with the horrible, rage-filled murders they committed. The show airs from 28 May
– 1 June at 9:55 pm. | 
