The Prisoner for the Sci-Fi Channel – as a reality show? Maybe One Day...

While Larry Young may best be known for heading up AiT/PlanetLar as well as being an outspoken comic industry pundit, he also has a secret life. Thanks to a childhood friend, Young is also an occasional pitchman. His latest work up: re-imagining The Prisoner for the Sci-Fi Channel – as a reality show.

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"We were trying to think of things that would make good reality shows, and one of the things that fell to me was to scour existing properties and see if there was some way we could re-jigger those things to see if they could be turned into something interesting as a reality show,” Austin said. “In doing so, I came up with The Prisoner.

“Larry and I had both been fans of The Prisoner growing up, and I’d gotten more into it, and grown to appreciate it more as I got older. It was a Kafka-esque, stylized, intellectual show that was unlike anything else that had ever come out. I don’t think you could ever do that show today.”

But what impressed Austin about the show, decades after it originally aired, is how similar it was to a reality show. In the original series, a former British secret agent resigned in disgust from his position, was gassed in his flat, and woke up in The Village. It was an idyllic setting where nothing ever went wrong – if you didn’t question who was in control, who you were, and why you couldn’t leave.

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I always said if "Oz" were "Survivor", Ryan O'Reilly would be the last man standing.

And not people who have only worked with Reality Shows, then I might watch it. I like your Oz/Survivor comparison.