Reality Bites Back

Now that Survivor is over, what will we watch? The networks are doing their best to translate other foreign "reality" shows to American tastes: ABC has picked up Britain's Jailbreak (10 "prisoners" under 24-hr. surveillance try to escape for big money), and NBC has locked up Holland's Chains of Love (one person chained to a quartet of the opposite sex). But we found some gems they may have overlooked...

71 DEGREES NORTH (Norway) Contestants race from Norway to the Arctic Circle. In extreme conditions. On foot. One trekker is voted off the glacier every two days

VILLA MEDUSA (Sweden) Eight young...

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