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There are some programmes (formats) that have been very successful in the EAST and in the WEST, but there are always little differences between them that make us squint our eyes and ask why? And sometimes these differences make the programme more successful with its intended audience.
This session a step towards finding out why.

How do we arrive at our perceptions? Is it something we learn? Do our genetics have anything to do with this? And our cultural background? This remarkable production is the result of research into the differences between people of the East and of the West. But what is the aim of such a programme? Do the results interfere with our perception of our world? What do the surprising and controversial conclusions lead to, and can these conclusions be trusted?

This programme challenges our perception of confrontation. We’re used to seeing confrontation on all sorts of programs, and it is usually between different people, or different groups and they compete to find out who is the best, by discarding all the rest, sometimes even ridiculing them. But here is a South Korean way of seeing a confrontation, a constructive way of seeing it, and it makes us wonder if this conception works in parts of the world where individualism is the ultimate triumph? Could other countries’ perception of what it means to win evolve?

We all know how politics work, don’t we? It’s “them,” the politicians, up there and “us,” the voters, down here. This show has dissolved those lines in a very entertaining way and thereby changed the perception of politics – especially for a younger audience. The format featuring former Prime Ministers grilling budding politicians has sold around the world. Last year, the producers took it to the next stage. The result is a remarkable multi-platform “dialogue” that has inspired spontaneous grassroots political movements. Is this a universal format or does it only work for a western audience?

Is beauty in the eyes of the beholder? What defines what we find beautiful? This TV Specific magazine takes us around the world to see what different cultures think about this, but it does so with a different perspective. We are used to seeing the rest of the world through our own eyes, the eyes of producers from our own country, who make the programs – but could all these different views of beauty also give us a glimpse into the ways different cultures see beauty through their own eyes?