Extract from Ben Elton's 'Dead Famous'

Day Seventeen. 10.00 a.m.
Back at work ? It was incredible. Terrible. Devastating.
During all the time she had been in the house, and indeed ever since she had recieved the thrilling news that she had been selected to join the House Arrest team, Layla had hardly dared to think of what she would be doing three days after leaving. Of course, she had allowed herself to dream a little and in her wildest fantasies had imagined herself juggling offers to model gorgeous clothes and to present exciting television programes about beauty products and alternative culture. In her worst moments of fear and doubt she had feared being lampooned in the tabloids and having to go on radio chat shows to defend her dippy-hippie ways. What she never ever imagined, however , was that she would be going back to work

The book "Dead Famous" by Ben Elton

It is an interesting book. The story is about a murder that occurs in a TV contest, named 'House Arrest', that copies the idea of the TV programme, we know it in Spain like 'The Big Brother'.
There it has been a murder in the show, and the police is reviewing all the recorded programmes in order to look for any kind of trace that could lead to find the assassin.
The book describes the show from inside, the manipulation that the contenders suffer from the editors and management of the television, how everything that appears in the homes screen has been set up before the exhibition. How the programme is focused to gain the attention of the viewers. Even the show is absolute rubbish, it only pretends to entertain and catch as much people as possible, to ensure the publicity paying for it. In a word is absolute business, despite de gossip and morbiness kept around the contestants of the programme.