Dead Famous (novel) Dead Famous (novel) Dead Famous (2001) is a comedy/whodunit novel by Ben Elton in which ratings for a reality TV show, very similar to "Big Brother", rocket when a housemate is murdered. Unlike a typical whodunnit, Elton does not reveal the identity of the victim until around halfway into the book. The novel is about a murder that occurs on a reality television programme called "House Arrest", which is very similar to the program Big Brother, and the efforts of three police officers to identify the killer by watching all the video recordings of the ten housemates while the remaining
Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life Baron. The programme lacked the impact of "TW3" and lasted only one season before being replaced by the Robert Robinson-fronted "BBC-3" (which aired once a week). Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life is a BBC-TV satire programme produced by Ned Sherrin, which aired during the winter of 1964–1965, in an attempt to continue and improve on the successful formula of his "That Was the Week That Was" (known informally as "TW3"), which had been taken off by the BBC because of a forthcoming general election. It