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Iraqis opt for an alternative reality on television
By Elizabeth Davies
Published: 28 October 2006

They play spin-the-bottle. They build barns on mountainsides and haul cargo across rivers. At home, they play happy families in a made-to-measure, ultra-modern hub of domesticity, as 24-hour cameras pick up their every move and word. In the checklist of reality television they tick all the boxes - but there is something remarkable about these new-found celebrities: they are Iraqi, and their show is a rare display of harmony in a country being torn apart by civil war.

Reality television may be known the world over for its tendency to warp real life into an outlandish perversion of itself, but the creators of Beit Beut, or "Playing House", have managed more than most production teams to ignore the outside world.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article1935938.ece