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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