Virgin Media Television has launched a fully interactive gaming channel in collaboration with Two Way Media.
Channel Jackpot is now available on digital TV, via interactive television, and online. It will sit in the entertainment section of the Virgin TV EPG at channel 154, immediately alongside Challenge and Challenge+1.
After midnight, Virgin1 and Bravo 2 will also carry daily simulcasts of Challenge Jackpot, meaning it will be available to Freeview and Sky homes. It is also available at www.challengejackpot.com
Two Way Media will produce all of Challenge Jackpot's live output and all of the transactional elements will be run by Two Way Gaming, a subsidiary of Two Way Media.
The channel will carry at least eight hours of live studio games every day. At launch, the flagship slot will be Roulette Nation, but this will be joined later by other casino-style games.
Outside the live broadcast hours, viewers will be able to play along with a range of automated games that will include Get Set Roulette, Face Up Hold 'Em and Hot Shot Keno.
VMTV managing director Jonathan Webb said: "Challenge Jackpot is the first step in reinventing Challenge for the twenty-first century. We want this new channel to continue the values of fun and excitement that have long been synonymous with Challenge – but also to take the relationship with our viewers to the next level of interactivity."
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Reality Television is a genre of television programming which presents purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and features ordinary people instead of professional actors. Although the genre has existed in some form or another since the early years of television, the term reality television is most commonly used to describe programs of this genre produced since 2000. Documentaries and nonfictional programming such as news and sports shows are usually not classified as reality shows.
Reality television covers a wide range of programming formats, from game or quiz shows which resemble the frantic, often demeaning shows produced in Japan in the 1980s and 1990s (a modern example is Gaki no tsukai), to surveillance- or voyeurism-focused productions such as Big Brother (TV series).
Such shows frequently portray a modified and highly influenced form of reality, with participants put in exotic locations or abnormal situations, sometimes coached to act in certain ways by off-screen handlers, and with events on screen sometimes manipulated through editing and other post-production techniques. (Credit: Wikipedia)
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Reality television covers a wide range of programming formats, from game or quiz shows which resemble the frantic, often demeaning shows produced in Japan in the 1980s and 1990s (a modern example is Gaki no tsukai), to surveillance- or voyeurism-focused productions such as Big Brother (TV series).
Such shows frequently portray a modified and highly influenced form of reality, with participants put in exotic locations or abnormal situations, sometimes coached to act in certain ways by off-screen handlers, and with events on screen sometimes manipulated through editing and other post-production techniques. (Credit: Wikipedia)
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