comparing EdTV and Quiz Show
... In the movies EDTV and Quiz Show you can see how networks deal with real people in different ways. ... Herbert Stempel is a brash working-class Jew from Queens, who is picked to play on a game-show called “Twenty-One. ... After a few weeks of having the same man on they feel that it is time for a change up in the cast of this particular show. ... He uses Herbert Stempel then humiliates him on national television and removes him from the show. ... ” When you take a look at Quiz Show and see the rules that are set before the contestants you ask yourself the same question. ... They get contestants to stay with the show by giving them the answers to all the questions that will be asked so that they will win and be available for the next show. Yet their audience thinks that the questions are locked in a vault until 10 minutes before the show when they are brought to the studio. Knowing the answers is how Stempel stayed on the show and when he was removed it’s how Van Doren stayed on the air. ... In EdTV there is a different morality issue. ... ” Miller says talking about EdTV and The Truman Show. ... In EdTV, Ed wants out of his contract so he decides to turn the game around and find out secrets about the network executives so that they will be humiliated in front of the nation. ... He goes to announce the most embarrassing moment in one of the executive’s lives and just as he is going to say the name his show is cancelled.