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The Unger Report: Stealing Reality TV

NPR's Madeleine Brand speaks with Brian Unger about this year's meeting of television critics, where charges of reality TV idea theft were rampant among network executives.

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Brian Unger
Brian Unger’s satirical reports on culture and politics can currently be heard regularly on NPR.
Madeleine Brand
Madeleine Brand is the host of NPR’s newest and fastest-growing daily show, Day to Day. She conducts interviews with newsmakers (Iraqi politicians, US senators), entertainment figures (Bernardo Bertolluci, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Ricky Gervais), and the everyday people affected by the news (an autoworker laid off at GM, a mother whose son was killed in Iraq).
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