The sight of small white figures endlessly regrouping, wandering about, pondering the light, all seen from one fixed angle, made poor spectator sport and even worse television.

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Then Billy's friend set up a television under his desk, mounted at an angle so if Billy was sitting just a foot back in his chair, he could look down and see the picture.

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Unlike comparable real estate and travel shows currently on television, A Place in the Sun takes a fresh, original angle.

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Even more, television loves a spectacle that has a script, a live event for which every camera angle can be plotted that is, a ritual.

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