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The crazy world of reality TV laid bare in Cannes

Naked and stripped of all possessions in an empty flat: what will you choose to have back first? Viewers can look forward this year to love-sick priests, super-talented child musicians, manhunts, puppet competitions and ever more dangerous challenges, said television expert Virginia Mouseler, from The Wit, a television consultancy. The market for reality TV ideas — “formats” in the professional jargon — is worth a staggering two billion euros ($2.1

South Africa names bidders for 1,000 MW of green power

By Peroshni Govender JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa has named preferred bidders for the fourth round of a series of renewable energy projects, that will add about 1,000 megawatts (MW) of power to its ailing grid, industry insiders said on Tuesday. Africa’s most advanced economy is committed to introducing green energy into its power mix, 95 percent of which is coal at the moment, to redress its chronic electricity shortages.