![]() Zheng Hu (郑虎) is a chubby 26-year-old music lover from China’s northern Shanxi province, who wants to lose weight and work on his career as a singer. Yi Qiu (易秋), with his unique look, is a vagabond with no stable job. ![]() The other participants range from 21 to 51 years old. The show’s oldest contestant is Tan Limin (谭利敏) a retired 61-year-old Shanghai woman with a young mind and feisty nature. Three of the 15 contestants, from left to right: Yi Qiu (the vagabond), Tan Limin (feisty auntie), Zheng Hu (wannabe singer). The contestants had different backgrounds as artists, singers, accountants, philosophers, carpenters, psychics, some jobless, one homeless.īesides an official website, the Chinese show also has an official Weibo account, that regularly updates with everyday developments on the show.Īccording to Variety, as many as 100,000 people applied to take part in the the Chinese Utopia. The show’s selected fifteen contestants have diverse backgrounds and ages. In the Netherlands, Utopia has seen a rich variety of participants gay and straight, black and white, young and old, religious and atheist. It is a joint production of Talpa and the Chinese online group Tencent. The Chinese version of Utopia is called ‘The Fifteen of Us’ ( 我们15个), and first aired on June 29 this year. Utopia is produced by Talpa, a top-notch Dutch production company that has launched various popular TV formats, such as The Voice, which also became a huge success in China ( 中国好声音). If they decide that they want to leave earlier without being eliminated, they will be fined by the television company. Apart from sporadic letters, they cannot communicate with their friends and family. Contestant are supposed the stay in the show for one year. Every month, the contestants have to vote on their least favourite resident, who will then be eliminated from the show and replaced by a new contestant. Besides the live streams, there are daily 30 minute recaps on TV. The show is recorded 24 hours per day, and can be followed by viewers through online live streams on the Utopia app. They can decide on their own rules or laws, but there is an important general restriction: contestants cannot leave the premises, that cover around 1,5-2 hectare. The contestants have to start from scratch, and learn how to make survive as a group. The reality show is a social television experiment that puts 15 people from different backgrounds together to create a new society. In the Netherlands, Utopia first aired on December 31st, 2013. The question is: what will Chinese Utopia look like? Who are the contestants? Will their society be communist or capitalist? What’s on Weibo brings you an overview of the show thus far. The format of Dutch reality TV programme Utopia has now made it to China. Fifteen people with different backgrounds build a new society: one place, hundreds of camera’s, starting from scratch.
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