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French polemic over fake game show electrocutions (AP)


Christophe Nick, TV producer of 'The Game of Death,' which is set to air Wednesday, talks to reporters Wednesday March 17, 2010 in Paris. State-run television is making headlines about a fake game show based on a 1963 experiment in the United States in which credulous participants obey orders to deliver increasingly powerful electric shocks to a man (an actor) until he appears to die. In the pilot, more than 4 in 5 believed they were participating in a real show and turned up the juice to the maximum, potentially deadly level . (AP Photo/Chrsitophe Ena)AP - A state-run TV channel is stirring controversy with a documentary about a fake game show in which credulous participants obey orders to deliver increasingly powerful electric shocks to a man, who is really an actor, until he appears to die.


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