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Member Since: May 2004 Posts: 2,077 Send Message	Paul Barton, Special Agent	Report	29 Jul 2013 21:54
Member Since: May 2004 Posts: 2,077 Send Message	Long Lost Family is a great television programme, full of genuine emotion and real people. However, interspersed through each episode are promotional clips from GenesReunited with actors faking their emotions. Am I the only one who finds this really creepy? Surely placing this fakery next to the genuine article only serves to make the programme seem exploitative and cynical. How did GenesReunited come up with such a counterproductive concept?
Member Since: August 2003 Posts: 62,779 Send Message	ErikaH	Report	29 Jul 2013 22:42
	What else would you expect? It's called 'advertising'
Member Since: July 2008 Posts: 18,042 Send Message	MarieCeleste	Report	29 Jul 2013 23:13
Member Since: July 2008 Posts: 18,042 Send Message	Don't forget that the real people and the genuine emotion is directed and manipulated by a production team .....
Member Since: August 2003 Posts: 62,779 Send Message	ErikaH	Report	29 Jul 2013 23:40
	.......who have set up themselves and their cameras in the person's home ready for the 'surprise' knock on the door by one of the presenters