by Thinus Ferreira
Lockdown living in South Africa is becoming a TV reality show with kykNET (DStv 144) that has picked up Kwarantyn as an Afrikaans reality series in which viewers will be able to follow the couped up exploits of two families.
In Kwarantyn - with no broadcast date yet announced - two quarantined families will get to live their house-bound lives on television similar to the Big Brother reality show.
Kwarantyn follows after the massive success earlier this year of a South African version of the format show Trap! Dis My Huis on VIA (DStv 147) produced by Afrokaans, which saw a gaggle of contestants forced to live together in a small 2-bedroom complex unit with a cash prize for the last one standing.
Now kykNET is looking for two Gauteng families - with all families who have to be older than 18 - who are willing to be filmed 24 hours per day with lives that are interesting enough to grab the nation's attention.
The families will be under "quarantine" and camera-surveillance for television for 2 months showing all the drama and intrigue of their daily living without being able to leave the home. The family that manages to win the hearts of the most viewers will win R250 000 as well as other prizes.
Gauteng families who think they've got what it takes will have to film a family video and send it on Whatsapp to 067 799 1444.
