The Phone

The Phone
Genre	Reality television
Created by	Park Lane TV
Presented by	Frederik Brom
Country of origin	Netherlands
Original language(s)	Dutch
Production
Location(s)	Various
Running time	40 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	AVRO (Nederland 3)
Original airing	July 6, 2007
External links
Website

The Phone is a Dutch television reality show, which is created by Willem Brom, Beau van Erven Dorens and Marc Bennink.

In each show two cell phones will be hidden at random places by the producers of the show. The phones will start ringing and the people answering the calls are from that moment participants in the game. These two people now have a chance of winning €25,000 by collaborating in the hunt for accomplishment of the given missions. The unique aspect of the show is that it's filmed as being a movie rather than a reality show. It was inspired by movies like Die Hard with a Vengeance.

The first episode of The Phone was aired by Dutch public broadcaster AVRO on July 6, 2007. The show has already been sold to 52 different countries. ^{[citation needed]}

It won the Best Reality prize at the 2008 Rose d'Or ceremony.^[1]

International versions

Country	Name	Channel	Premiere	Voice on the phone
Australia	The Phone	FOX8	January 19, 2009	Justin Melvey
Brazil	The Phone – A Missão	Band	April 12, 2011	Sérgio Albert
Israel	הטלפון HaTelefon	Channel 2 (Reshet)	July 2, 2009	Oded Leopold
Netherlands	The Phone	AVRO	July 6, 2007	Frederik Brom
		RTL 5	2010	Eddy Zoëy
Romania	Telefonul	Prima TV	October 8, 2009	TBA
Russia	Звонок Zvonok	CTC	September 7, 2007	Oleg Aksenov
United Arab Emirates	The Phone Abu Dhabi	Abu Dhabi TV	May 13, 2010	Hamad Almazrooi
United States	The Phone	MTV	April 21, 2009	Emmett J. Scanlan

References

External links

• The Phone at the Internet Movie Database
• The Phone at TV.com