Primetime: What Would You Do?
| What Would You Do? | |
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| Genre |
Newsmagazine Hidden camera series |
| Presented by | John Quiñones |
| Starring | Various actors |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 12 |
| Production | |
| Location(s) |
New York metropolitan area (various locations) (most episodes; some episodes filmed on-location in U.S. states not within the area) |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Production company(s) | ABC News Productions |
| Release | |
| Original network | ABC |
| Picture format |
480i (SDTV) 720p (HDTV) |
| Original release | February 26, 2008 – present |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | Primetime |
| External links | |
| Website | |
What Would You Do? (formerly known as Primetime: What Would You Do? through its fifth season) is an American newsmagazine and situational hidden camera television program that has been broadcast on ABC since February 26, 2008. It is hosted by news correspondent John Quiñones and was created by Chris Whipple.
The program was conceived as a format-based series for ABC's newsmagazine Primetime, however all on-air references to its parent series were removed from What Would You Do? following the discontinuance of Primetime as a standalone program by the network in 2010 (with subject-based formats of the program, such as Primetime: Family Secrets, airing thereafter during the summer months or as a temporary replacement for entertainment programs cancelled during the fall-to-spring television season).
The program features actors acting out scenes of conflict or illegal activity in public settings while hidden cameras videotape the scene, and the focus is on whether or not bystanders intervene, and how. Variations are also usually included, such as changing the genders, the races or the clothing of the actors performing the scene, to see if bystanders react differently. Quiñones appears at the end of each scenario to interview bystanders and witnesses about their reactions.
As the experiment goes on, psychology professors, teachers, or club members watch and discuss the video with Quiñones, explaining and making inferences on the bystanders' reactions.
Many of the scenario actors appear in only one or two episodes. Several, however, have become staples of the program, including Yuval David, Diana Henry, Vince August, Jeremy Holm, Michael J. Lyons and Traci Hovel.
Reruns of older What Would You Do? episodes began airing on the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) on February 15, 2011, under the title What Would You Do?: OWN Edition (in a manner similar to the specialized network-based titles of other network newsmagazines aired in the form of episode compilations on cable channels such as Dateline on ID and 48 Hours on ID on Investigation Discovery).
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