| In recent years, the whole world has witnessed the rise and flourishing of the TV Trueman Show. As a fresh program mode, the Trueman Show gathers the characteristics of reality of the documentary film, of the story-telling of TV series and of competition of gaming programs. The rate of reception surged Once it showed up on the stage, bringing significant rewards to the program. Its craze in the west gave rise to many followers in China. Ever since the Survival Challenges of the Guangdong TV in 2000, this program mode has landed in China for nearly five years. A period of fives can be ranked as long in a times with rapidly refreshing programs. Although it was sensationalized by various domestic media, and some medium experts predicted that it would grow into the new main force on the Chinese screens by replacing traditional variety shows, it didn't meet good enough market responses; what's more, spectators cannot appreciate not many genuine Trueman Shows. Rather, the concerned moral disputes when it was introduced still linger in the air. Apparently, if the imported Trueman Shows, with many characteristics contrary to Chinese traditional culture and morals, want to bud in the soil of Chinese cultures, the process would be not the least easy.However, Trueman Show is a new variety show form after all. Rather than accidental, its appearance is closely related to the whole cultural background, the change of spectators' program-receiving psychology and the development of TV itself. Therein lays many advanced production ideas which are of great potential. As a result, domestic TV workers have been always contributed to the localization of the Trueman Show, though the way is rather arduous.This essay gives a general introduction to the process of the localization of the Trueman Show program, focuses on the difficulties of its localization and related resolutions and offers a prospect for its development in the future. |
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