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The first season of 5 Takes, a Travel Channel show, had all the right elements to attract its young target audience: interactivity, an exotic locale, energetic subjects, and a narrator with a voice suited for public television. Wait a second... That last part didn't fit, and 5 Takes' viewers were quick to point it out in the discussion board on the show's website. Since the website ran concurrent with the making of the interactive show, the audience wasted no time complaining - they did so immediately after the first show aired.
April 1, 2007

The first season of 5 Takes, a Travel Channel show, had all the right elements to attract its young target audience: interactivity, an exotic locale, energetic subjects, and a narrator with a voice suited for public television. Wait a second... That last part didn't fit, and 5 Takes' viewers were quick to point it out in the discussion board on the show's website. Since the website ran concurrent with the making of the interactive show, the audience wasted no time complaining - they did so immediately after the first show aired.

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