An interesting, interactive TV puzzle is coming to South African viewers from 1 April every night when The Booth at the End will start on Fox Entertainment (TopTV 180) that will have viewers become participants in a mystery that builds step by step as an elusive, mysterious man sets a plan in motion.
The Booth at the End is a new form television production that integrates your cellphone and the internet to create a multimedia ''game''. Viewers can watch the The Booth at the End (and just watch the show and do nothing more), or immerse themselves and have even more fun.
The Booth at the End will start on 1 April at 20:15 with a new episode every night with The Man (Xander Berkeley) sitting in a diner. Over the course of every episode, different people come to him. They want various things, and he tells them to do certain (difficult) things. If they do what he asks and completes their ''assignments'' they get what they want. However, its morally difficult things (shoot someone, rob a bank), physically challenging things etc. As the show progress, the various things start to overlap, the people start to overlap and interact and not everyone carries through and complete the tasks they're asked to do. This is when things become interesting in this psychological drama with this mysterious figure.
Neither TopTV nor Fox Africa have announced the website yet, but you can go HERE to http://thebooth.foxafrica.com/ where the special website for South Africa is now active and where The Booth at the End will start on 1 April when the show/''the game'' starts. Will there be prizes? I don't know. How does sit all come together? I don't know. But it seems interesting. It will clearly involve Facebook and Twitter as social media as well besides just television.
''The Booth at the End is a highly anticipated new multi-platform series and we are very pleased to secure the rights for our audiences around the world,'' says Thandi Davids, director: sales and broadcast of Fox International Channels (FIC) for Africa and South Africa. She says The Booth at the End has ''an intriguing and globally relevant premise.''
