E!’s Child Star Confidential: Or How to Make a New Show Out of Old Ones
Written by TV Guy on May 21st, 2006
Okay, so I’ve been on something of an E! Channel binge today, and ran across a new/old episode of “Child Star Confidential”, basically a “Whatever Happened To…” type show about former child stars and their problems. But the most interesting thing about the show? Every episode is compiled completely from old E! interviews of the former child stars being profiled for that particular episode. The whole thing is basically some editors in a stock vault grabbing interviews and making episode topics around them!
For the most part, anyway. Each episodes did have, I think, about 5 minutes of original footage, where some college interns would go interview one of the child stars (one per episode) and ask him about what happened to him. This is their “In their Own Words” segment, which is used to bookmark most of the episodes.
This is pretty brilliant stuff here, folks. It’s 5 minutes of work on a 30 minute episode. Brilliant!
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