Primetime
PRIMETIME: What Would You Do? - Part 2: 3/4/08
$29.95 (Item #P080304M)What would you do if you saw a gang beating up on a homeless person? What if you and your husband were at a romantic dinner and the waitress was openly flirting with your spouse? Using hidden cameras, ''Primetime: What Would You Do?'' sets up everyday scenarios and then captures people's reactions. Whether people are compelled to act or mind their own business, John Quinones reports on their split-second - and often surprising - decision-making process.
Scenarios include:
- Homeless Attacks: ''Bum bashing'' is an alarming trend, where teens around the country attack homeless victims for sport. Last year more than 140 homeless were violently attacked nationwide and, in most cases, no one is around when it happens. But what if people were? ''Primetime'' creates an example of this shocking phenomenon in a New Jersey town to find out.
Handicapped Parking: When a woman barges into a handicapped parking space and refuses to move, even when a handicapped person asks for a spot, will people do anything?
Stranger Flirtation: Imagine a couple out for a romantic dinner at a cozy restaurant. Everything seems lovely until the attractive waiter or waitress begins to openly hit on your spouse. How will six significant others react?
Embarrassing Moments: When someone has spinach in their teeth, toilet paper on their shoes, or an unbuttoned blouse.... will anyone tell them and save them from even more embarrassment?
''Primetime: What Would You Do?'' has won awards from the Chicago International Television Festival, as well as the Avon Foundation's 2006 Voice of Change Award for exposing ''injustice and wrongdoing against women, and bringing the message of domestic violence to the mainstream.'' According to a recent Columbia Journalism Review essay, ''Primetime: What Would You Do?'' is ''the flip side of reality TV... rather than show how people act in manufactured situations when they know they are being watched, they show us how people act when they don't.''

