It's
got pain, anxiety, tears, the blackest trench humour around,
and that 'romantic touch of medical stuff', but, mostly,
it's the screams of drills and pain that will have viewers
tuning in each week...
The Evil
Dentist™ is the latest reality TV
show from the creators of Death Row Junction, Terminal
Ward 69 and Transsexual Tension, and is coming
to a network near you soon...
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Open
wide! "Arrgh!" Classic moment of pain
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The
show is set in a real Dentistry in a medium size city (location
secret). Viewers can get involved as long as they don't
mind having all the treatment (and 'after-effects') filmed.
A
producer for the show told us: "Unfortunately, medical
ethics demands that we can't put our patients through more
pain than absolutely necessary, so we've got round that
by having three unqualified dentists. Any-hoo: The beauty
of dentistry is that pain is just a small slip away, accidents
just sometimes happen!"
The
weekly, hour-long show itself is filled with as many twists
and turns as those being treated in the dentist's chair.
Each
week, viewers are encouraged to vote for their favourite
dentist, or for special features, such as which dentist
is to get the faulty drill, the filling cement that just
won't set, or who has to work with the fiery alcoholic Portuguese
dental hygienist who doesn't speak any English - Margaretta.
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Larry
David operates in Belgium's version of the Evil
Dentist
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In
the top-rated Belgian version of the show, celebrity 'dentists',
who really have no idea what they are doing, were brought
in to operate on unsuspecting members of the public.
"There
really are so few legal opportunities to put people through
so much pain as dentistry allows. I think this idea will
run and run," said TV critic and Master of Pain, Herve
Mont.
