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Wowed by "N.O.W."

I DVRd Phil Keogan's (of The Amazing Race fame) new show on Sunday night and got around to watching it yesterday after work--and I got totally sucked in! The premise is that Phil & Co. give a person 3 days and $3,000 to fulfill a life's dream. The 2 men featured on the first show were 1. a family man from Detroit who scuba dives for recreation. His problem is that he is deeply, deathly afraid of sharks, so despite *loving* diving, he's never gotten beyond the Detroit River and 2. an amateur sailor who wants to build a boat and sail to the Farallon Islands just outside San Francisco--a site notorious for treacherous, shark-infested waters. Their 72 hours begins the moment Phil bestows the money on them--and he takes them by surprise so they have NO IDEA the adventure is coming--so there is a definite "seat of the pants" feel to this show. There's very little in the way of slick production and it's not a foregone conclusion that an endeavor will have the desired outcome. So far the show pulls off the notion of just chronicling people pursuing a dream and pushing their personal envelope. If it's possible, I love Phil even more--he seems like the coolest, and I totally want to hang out with him (in a non-Mirna way, of course)--for his unflappable but not sappy optimism. Bottom line, check it out. It's more real than 95% of the "reality" TV going these days...and it got me thinking, what would I do with 3 days and $3000?? Hmm....

posted by ADD @ 06:55