/b/veterinary-news/posts/139700 Production company Keo Films is on the hunt for a veterinary surgeon that wants to take a year out and help set up a new community in a remote part of the British Isles for a high profile TV documentary series. The documentary is essentially a socialen-USTelligent Community 10https://www.vetsurgeon.org/b/veterinary-news/posts/139700Wed, 14 Oct 2015 15:48:38 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:40bacbe9-ada4-4778-ac83-17d0778a6857Virginia Campbell0<p>Oh- they&#39;re remaking Castaway 2000. Do they pay your student loan/mortgage for a year while you&#39;re donating your professional services? Don&#39;t think I&#39;m young and beautiful enough to be the Ben Fogle character- I&#39;d be one of all the rest who didn&#39;t get famous. I wouldn&#39;t like to be cast as the argumentative one/ the weird one/ the drama queen/ the complainer. Cos if a dog belonging to one of the community got sick, and the owner had already been cast as a &quot;goodie&quot; and I was cast as a baddie, it would probably only take a few carefully edited bits selected out of hours of film to make me look domineering or indecisive; arrogant or incompetent; cold-hearted or an overly emotional sap- whatever fitted the brief.</p> <p>Is this sociology experiment being funded by a sociology institute with an interest in selecting a truely representative cross section of society, or a TV comany interested in ratings, and therefore drama, and therefore a group pre selected for the likelihood of personality clashes? </p> <img src="https://www.vetsurgeon.org/aggbug?PostID=139700&AppID=5&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">