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The Greatest Show Never Made: how one svengali tricked 30 people into a wild reality show – that didn’t exist

A personal admission: for the first 24 minutes of Prime Video’s new documentary series, (from Wednesday 11 October), I thought it was a made-up script. Everyone here at Joel Golby HQ is sad to admit this, but I think I misread a press release, or skimmed the wrong page on the wrong website, and – long story short – I thought we’d crossed a new frontier in mockumentary that would change television for ever. From my notes:

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