{"id":6994,"date":"2014-03-19T19:32:46","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T19:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6994"},"modified":"2014-03-19T19:32:46","modified_gmt":"2014-03-19T19:32:46","slug":"reality-tv-shows-proposed-for-mars-one-and-mars-society-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6994","title":{"rendered":"Reality TV shows proposed for Mars One and Mars Society projects"},"content":{"rendered":"

The plan by the\u00a0Mars-One<\/a>\u00a0project has always held media, especially reality TV shows, as the key to funding their effort to put a human settlement on the Red Planet. It appears that one television production company,\u00a0Lions Gate<\/a>\u00a0is the first to give it a try:\u00a0Mission To Colonize Mars To Become Reality TV Series – Deadline.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For the next several years, the series would be covering the different stages of preparation for the mission, starting with participant selection and the finalists \u2014 called candidates \u2014 undergoing an 8-year training protocol. The series\u2019 cast will evolve as candidates in the mission drop out and new ones are brought in. \u201cThis is a social experiment that focuses on the people that would sign for something like this \u2014 they have to agree to participate and be willing to go on a one-way mission, knowing that if you go, you can never come back,\u201d said\u00a0Roy Bank, who is producing the project as part of his overall deal with Lionsgate TV.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Robert Zubrin, co-founder of the <\/span>Mars Society<\/a>, was recently on The Space Show<\/a> and he discussed <\/span>Mars Arctic 365<\/a>. MA365 involves putting a “crew” on the\u00a0Mars Society’s Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station<\/a>\u00a0(FMARS) at\u00a0Devon Island for a full year rather than just a few months as in previous expeditions.\u00a0<\/span>Dr. Robert Zubrin, Thursday, 3-13-14 – Thespaceshow’s Blog<\/a><\/p>\n

There might be a reality TV show based on this project as well:\u00a0Mars Exploration Reality Series Shopped By Thinkfactory Media – Deadline.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The production company\u00a0ThinkFactory Media<\/a>\u00a0has been developing<\/p>\n

an unscripted TV project that would document Mars Society\u2019s year-long Mars simulation in the Canadian Arctic. Thinkfactory had been working with the Mars Society on the project for the past four months. It took the series out to networks last week, with two outlets interested and currently in discussion with the production company. Tentatively titled\u00a0Mission To Mars, the series is one of two Mars colonization reality projects in the marketplace, along with Lionsgate TV\u2019s\u00a0untitled series done in collaboration\u00a0with Lansdorp\u2019s\u00a0Mars One,\u00a0the international Mars mission backed by Dutch billionaire entrepreneur Bas Lansdorp.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The plan by the\u00a0Mars-One\u00a0project has always held media, especially reality TV shows, as the key to funding their effort to put a human settlement on the Red Planet. It appears that one television production company,\u00a0Lions Gate\u00a0is the first to give it a try:\u00a0Mission To Colonize Mars To Become Reality TV Series – Deadline.com. 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