CBS 'Kid Nation'

'Kid Nation', CBS Network's new reality show that is due out this fall, does indeed show a new and fresh approach towards the reality show genre. After great hits with such shows as 'Survivor', 'Big Brother', and 'Pirate Master', the network has been riding the reality show gravy train and making other networks follow their lead by creating new reality shows of their own, such as 'Treasure Hunters', 'The Search For The Next Doll', 'America's Top Supermodel', 'The Bachelor', 'The Apprentice', and so on. Now, with 'Kid Nation' on the table as a new concept, there still leaves a few questions that are left to be answered, and from the promotional spots alone, I was becoming slightly alarmed as the possibility of a new controversy being established came to my mind.

There has been very little in the way of scandal in the realm of reality TV, but once it does hit, it can have extremely harrowing effects on the network and not to mention the media blitz that could ensue from the emergence of it. For instance, on the hit summer reality show 'Big Brother', a film was found of a contestant that had managed to escape the confines of the house and bring another girl from the outside world back, only to threaten her later with a butcher knife and threaten to cut her throat on camera, asking if the girl wanted to die. We also have ABC's 'Brat Camp', which met with a great deal of scrutiny from child advocates who had deemed the show as a means of exploiting troubled youth, as well as sending allogations of neglect and abuse that had come from the camp counselors themselves, who were making the children march through the eastern deserts of Oregon on foot for eight to ten miles a day to have them think about the mistakes that they have made in their lives, what they were, and whom they have hurt along the way. But, with the now coming of 'Kid Nation', will CBS have a possible lawsuit on their hands?