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Hidden camera

In 1996 the genre was given an overhaul by Travis Draft who introduced the glasses cam with his show Buzzkill.


Ahmed Akkari

In a documentary published by French television channel France 2 on 23 March 2006, Akkari was recorded - using a hidden camera - in conversation with Sheikh Raed Hlayhel (who was the head of the delegation to disseminate the "Dossier about championing the cause of the prophet Muhammad peace be upon him").

Howie Do It

The series features practical jokes in the vein of earlier shows like Just for Laughs, Punk'd or Candid Camera – the supposed twist being that the cameras are in the open, not hidden as in the other series.

Let's trim our hair in accordance with the socialist lifestyle

In the North Korean capital city of Pyongyang, Western news articles reported that a hidden camera was placed to catch citizens with improper hairstyles.

Patrick van der Eem

On February 3, 2008, SBS 6 aired a program produced by De Vries in which one time Dutch suspect Joran van der Sloot discusses his knowledge of the Natalee Holloway case with Van der Eem while riding in a Range Rover that contained hidden cameras.

Robert Palfrader

There he has mainly done comedy shows, the most popular being echt fett, a hidden camera prank show (based on British format Trigger Happy TV), and Wir sind Kaiser (We are Emperor), a political satire where the Austrian Habsburg Monarchy is restituted.


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A Little Trip to Heaven

Holt bluffs, claiming a hidden camera will help sort out who was truly on the bus; many leave, and his co-worker (Peter Coyote) quickly tells him their company wants him to investigate a crash in the remote and desolate town of North Hastings, Minnesota.

Bangaru Laxman

Laxman was involved in a major controversy when a private TV network when Tehelka allegedly showed him taking bribes from Mathew Samuel on a hidden camera while he was the president of the BJP.

Don't Dress for Dinner

The play was famously featured as the basis for a hidden camera prank on Lionel Blair on the television series Noel's House Party.

Eye Spy

Eye Spy (TV programme), a British TV programme broadcast in July 2013 on Channel 4, where a hidden camera captures people's reactions to pretend discrimination events happening around them.

Henning Carlsen

Based upon the Nadine Gordimer's 1958 novel about apartheid, the movie was shot covertly on location in South Africa through Carlsen's use of a hidden camera.

Hong Kong Journalists Association

The complaint was about several journalists from a Hong Kong magazine "Easy Finder (Chinese: 壹本便利)" who took photos of a local female artist, Gillian Chung (Chinese: 鍾欣恫), in a dressing room using a hidden camera.

James Yoshimura

Yoshimura was inspired to write it based on an episode of the HBO hidden-camera documentary show Taxicab Confessions, where a New York City detective discussed a similar real-life event.

Jorge Batlle Ibáñez

In 2002, after Uruguay was hit by the Argentine economic crisis, an off-the-record conversation between president Batlle and a journalist from Bloomberg Argentina was recorded by a hidden camera from that channel.

Missy O'Reilly

Missy O'Reilly is an actress/comedian best known as a cast member on MTV's hidden camera show Boiling Points.

Nonpartisanism in the United States

In 2009, in the wake of a scandal that emerged following the release of several "hidden camera" videotapes, Republican politicians called for an IRS investigation of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, claiming the organization had engaged in improper partisan political activities as well as various forms of fraud.

Remote Control Star

Remote Control Star is a hidden camera game show on CBBC presented by JK and Joel.

The Crocketts

The Crocketts have been featured on the soundtrack of British hidden camera sketch show Trigger Happy TV; "1939 Returning", from their second album was used in the second series.

The Tim Conway Show

Tim Conway's Funny America, a 1990 American comedic hidden-camera-prank show starring Tim Conway