Artificial Life, RDF Digital USA introduce interactive TV show in US

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By Team Diginews4u ⋅ September 2, 2009 ⋅

RDF Digital USA and Artificial Life recently announced a collaboration to produce an interactive animated TV show entitled ‘Sleuths’.

Implementing Artificial Life’s MoPA-TV system (‘mobile participation television’ that enables live TV broadcasters to support real-time viewer interaction with their shows using their mobile phones), ‘Sleuths’ is being promoted as the ‘first’ television show in the United States to let audiences become part of the storyline.

‘Sleuths’ is a half-hour animated episodic series featuring four kids solving a mystery every week. In the show, the audiences register and customise their own avatar, which will appear on the screen representing them while the show airs live on national television.

Three times per episode, the avatars of the registered audience members will appear in the show for voting sessions. A question will be asked in each session and they will have to text in their vote within a limited time frame. Those who get it wrong will be eliminated from the screen; those who get the question right will be congratulated on the correct answer and stay for the next question.

At the end of each episode, the top five avatars who answered all of the questions correctly will appear on screen one final time standing with the main characters. All audience members will have a shot as seeing their avatar standing next to the show’s stars, the company explained.

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