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I’ve got a soft spot for celebrity fakeover shows, so I’m looking forward to Experiment Inkognito the latest version of the Anonymous format distributed internationally by Eyeworks. In the first episode Jeanette Biedermann undergoes a radical transformation with a lot of help from Robert Rebele.

There have already been shows in Ireland (Anonymous) and Spain (Anónimos) and there is apparently a Romanian version airing (on Direct Target?); Greek, Brazilian, Mexican, French and Norwegian versions are in the pipeline. If anyone has any information on — or better still, images from — any of these, please get in touch.

I’m far less keen — they generally make me cringe — on those ‘walk in my shoes’ reality TV shows that claim some serious agenda, but the makeups are interesting. So if anyone has information on versions of The Big Experiment format that originated in New Zealand and particularly on the forthcoming French version (to be called La Grande Expérience I believe), I’d like to hear about them too. 

update 21/02/2008: there are a selection of before and after images from various fakeover shows at my MySpace site.

While I was on holiday I was saddened by the deaths of Michel Serrault, Michelangelo Antonioni & Ingmar Bergman.

Michel Serrault appeared in more than 135 films in his native France: Zaza Napoli in La Cage aux Folles was probably his best known role internationally but my favourite was Beauvoir, The ‘Eye’, in Mortelle Randonnée.

Michelangelo Antonioni: L’Avventura, L’Eclisse, Blow-Up, Zabriskie Point…

Ingmar Bergman: sheer brilliance from The Seventh Seal to Fanny and Alexander.