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24
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12%
3 of 24 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
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not political
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Entertainment
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You might feel that reality TV has become tiresome, with B-list celebrity clashes and engineered arguments commonplace.
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clashes → feel → ?
Instead, you could tune into a 24/7 livestream of a Lagotto Romagnolo named Hilkka – dubbed the 'Big Brother for dogs'.
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you → tune → dogs
The adorable dog brought joy to millions after she gave birth to six puppies in the round-the-clock video feed.
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she → bring → feed
The Finnish programme follows a curly brown dog as she looks after a litter of four female puppies and two males.
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she → follow → puppies
The website has recorded 6.6million visits in the past six days alone.
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website → record → days
It is the sixth series of the show named Pentulive, meaning Puppy Live, aired by Yle, the national public service broadcaster in Finland.
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It → name → Finland
The canine version of Big Brother will follow Hilkka and her six children 24/7 for eight weeks.
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version → follow → weeks
It is filmed from inside the home of a breeder, with three cameras and lighting installed inside the puppies’ whelping box.
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cameras → film → box
A Lagotto Romagnolo named Hilkka has given birth to six puppies on a Finnish programme dubbed the 'Big Brother for dogs'
It is controlled remotely by a directorial team in Helsinki.
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It → name → Helsinki
Last year's programme featured an English springer spaniel named Muru.
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programme → feature → spaniel
Her litter of 11 puppies drew in one million viewers – around the same number that tuned into the evening news show that day.
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that → draw → show
Pirjo Koskinen, a science journalist at Yle who came up with the idea for Pentulive, told The Times that the public's response to the programme had been unexpected and overwhelmingly positive.
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response → come → programme
She said: 'We know that Pentulive helps to deal with loneliness, stress and sleepless nights.
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Pentulive → say → loneliness
It’s even been said to relieve physical or mental pain.'
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It → say → pain
Ms Koskinen said that the livestream was played in classrooms while children studied for exams and had helped people bond with elderly relatives suffering from dementia.
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people → say → dementia
She added: 'I think Pentulive brings out the best aspects of humanity.
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Pentulive → add → humanity
One explanation could be that there has been so much negative news since we started in 2021 — with Covid and the war in Ukraine, for example.
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we → start → example
Maybe people crave something opposite to all that.
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people → crave → that
What we call "the Pentulive bubble" is about loving and caring, the miracle of birth and growth and puppies doing funny things.
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call → call → things
The show now features interactive elements such as a live chat, an online game where viewers can predict when the puppies will reach key milestones and a weekly podcast.
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puppies → feature → milestones
The adorable dog brought joy to millions after she gave birth to six puppies in the round-the-clock video feed
Miiamaaria Kujala, adjunct professor of comparative cognitive neuroscience at the University of Helsinki, said: 'The livestream offers something that appears to be missing from many modern busy lives: something real, genuine, utterly vulnerable that taps your evolutionary meaning as a protector.
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that → bring → protector
Pentulive is said to draw on the Scandinavian concept of 'slow TV' – an idea that hours of mundane footage offers the antidote to the world of fast-paced media.
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hours → say → media
Ms Kujala added: 'Pentulive contains very calm periods and unexpected action periods.
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Pentulive → add → periods
As a live feed, it likely provokes more intense emotional responses from the observers.'
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it → provoke → observers
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