The Greatest Shows on Earth

Brazil (1x1)

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Daisy is in Brazil looking backstage as the country prepares to explode onto the world stage with the World Cup and Olympics in 2016 – and she finds extremes of television, from programmes objectifying and humiliating women to a bloody version of Crimewatch. She goes behind the scenes of Brazil’s most revealing talent show, Miss Bum Bum, where young women go cheek-to-cheek to decide who has the best backside. Although shocking to her eyes, Daisy finds that Brazilians regard the programme as a harmless celebration of the female form. Digging deeper, Daisy discovers a darker side to the froth and frivolity of Brazilian entertainment TV when she meets an ex-member of the ‘Panicats’ - a group of bikini-clad women who are subjected to what Daisy sees as degrading challenges in the name of TV entertainment. Brazil has one of the highest crime rates in the world, as Daisy finds out as a live guest on Na Mira, a bloody version of Crimewatch. The programme is filled with shocking footage of dead bodies on pavements and buried corpses being pulled from the ground – all the more disturbing for being scheduled at lunchtime after kids’ cartoons.