It could be done. Candid Camera approached that slightly. You could just take people in a small holiday hotel on the Costa Brava and film it. I suggest that this, as with certain psychology experiments proper, probably wouldn't get past the relevant ethics boards. In fact, the very next issue of New Scientist magazine that I picked up after speaking to Ballard had an article about a psychology professor at Stanford University who, frustrated at just those obstacles put in the way of research by ethics boards, is now running his own reality experiments in a TV series called Human Zoo .
Most television is low-grade pap, it's so homogenised it's like mental toothpaste.
But Big Brother as a slice of reality - or what passes for reality. I assume that the world's big electronic corporations are developing VR systems, which after all are going to take television and movies into completely new dimensions that I think potentially do represent a threat. It may lead to my phrase about playing with our own psychopathology as a game coming true with a bang. I see huge dangers there, but also huge possibilities. There might be a program along the lines of 'Be a messiah.