Solitary is a reality show on Fox Reality Channel whose contestants are kept in solitary confinement. It is the channel's first original series commission with its debut on May 29, 2006. In August, Fox started filming the third season of the series, Solitary v3.0, which premiered on Saturday, January 17, 2009 at 9p/8c.
The show calls itself a "social experiment" in determining the physical and mental endurance of the competitors.
The show's theme...
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Solitary is a reality show on Fox Reality Channel whose contestants are kept in solitary confinement. It is the channel's first original series commission with its debut on May 29, 2006. In August, Fox started filming the third season of the series, Solitary v3.0, which premiered on Saturday, January 17, 2009 at 9p/8c.
The show calls itself a "social experiment" in determining the physical and mental endurance of the competitors.
The show's theme is based on solitary confinement; accordingly, the contestants are placed in isolated pods, with only an artificial intelligence named Val to communicate with. In reality, Val's voice is a computer-modified human voice. In season 1, Val was likely voiced by a male, whose voice was altered. In Season 2, Val is voiced by a female, with little computer modification. However, some "corruption" can be heard in the voice pattern where Val speaks a word or two in a similar voice to Season 1. In the recent rebroadcast of the Season 1 episodes, the...
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