The first 24-hour live interactive Internet television reality program will debut on June 14, announced executive producer Darin Myman of BigString Interactive, a wholly owned subsidiary of BigString Corporation.
The program, OurPrisoner, features a 35-year-old-single-man, Kieran Vogel, who has volunteered to allow the Internet audience to control every aspect of his life for six months live, on camera, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Most aspects of Vogel's life in a suburban New Jersey home will be streamed in real time and unedited. Through an interactive media platform, viewers can vote to determine what he wears, what he eats, whom he dates, to whom he talks, what he watches on TV, what music he listens to, and much more. He will also react to viewer calls and emails.
Vogel, who suffers from a host of neuroses, waived his rights to privacy and doctor-patient privilege to allow viewers to see his twice-weekly sessions with therapist-life coach Diane Lang. Lang, an adjunct professor of psychology at Montclair State University and Centenary College, has a post masters in advanced counseling from Montclair State, and an MA in counseling and a BA in liberal arts from the New York Institute of Technology.
If OurPrisoner makes it through the six months he will win a prize package worth upwards of $500,000. If Vogel walks away before finishing his six-month commitment, he gets nothing.
OurPrisoner can be viewed on-line at
OurPrisoner.com 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
On Friday nights Vogel will host a party for friends that viewers decide to let visit him. Music, dancing and dance lessons will be seen live. And viewers can determine what dances he learns. Kieran, who is a world-class kazoo player, will accompany his guitarist brother to play viewer requests. Several times a day he will give away prizes to viewers who correctly answer his trivia questions via email. As Kieran builds a relationship with his audience, they will help decide if he should be rewarded or punished by either taking away or granting privileges.
Vogel, who is a graduate of the School of Visual Arts, is a freelance artist. He is a struggling cartoonist and writes poetry besides playing the kazoo.