National Association of Television Program.One of the more bizarre syndicated shows offered at the recent National Association of Television Program Executives convention was "Cheaters." The one-hour weekly program gives men and women who think their spouses or loved ones are cheating a chance to confront them. "It's a morality play morality play, form of medieval drama that developed in the late 14th cent. and flourished through the 16th cent. The characters in the morality were personifications of good and evil usually involved in a struggle for a man's soul. The form was generally static, but it contributed significantly to the secularization of European drama. The first known moralities were called the Paternoster plays. The greatest English morality is Everyman. See miracle play.," said Chris Lancey, chief operating officer of Western International Syndication, which is selling the show. The program is produced by Dallas-based Goldstein/Habeeb Productions, which interviews possible participants before deciding whether to pursue their case. The suspicious party is then shown how to bug telephones and secretly videotape the suspected cheater. A "Cheaters" camera crew, accompanied by a licensed private detective, shadows the person in public places (to avoid any issues of privacy) before the aggrieved party confronts them on camera. "We are like investigative reporters, only the subject is cheating," Lancey said. "Of the people whose cases we take, 98 percent are correct. |
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