14 DAY TRIAL // A collaboration between SyFy cable television and Relativity Television could result in a show depicting bits of the life of real computer hackers.
The show is intended to present the activity of the skilled computer users featuring information straight from the source. Both sides of the fence would be presented as offenders and law enforcement officers are interviewed.
The project, simply called Hackers, is touted as an unscripted series that takes the audience “deep inside the shadowy and dangerous world of high-tech hackers,” according to a post in Variety.
It is difficult to grasp how much of the illicit activity will be presented in the show, considering that the action is mainly confined to a keyboard and a screen.
Viewers are used to the eye-candy visuals in the movies describing the movement of a hacker inside a network, and the producers may resort to sophisticated graphics to immerse the audience into the experience of the hackers. Otherwise, the severity of a network breach to its full extent would be quite difficult to comprehend.
Variety says that this is exactly the kind of solution the producers would adopt in order to really depict an “experiential ‘hacking’ scene that exposes what actually happens when a computer network is broken into.”
One thing is for sure: it will be nothing like the virus coding scene in Swordfish, or the scenes in War Games, or the network break-in in Hackers, or the hackathon part in Chuck.