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 Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 9:17 am
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ACHTUNG!
You are about to enter RANT country
I have a strong feeling that I'm preaching to the choir here, but hell, I'm going to do it anyway....
What the <********> has happened to television?!?!
I remember a time, not too long ago, when there was something entertaining on the idiot box pretty much every night of the week. Well scripted dramas, laugh-a-minute sitcoms, general, good ol' fashion escapism. These it seems like these days I can only ever find episodes of Who Wants to Marry America's top weight loss dance star for a chance to win 50,000 dollars! Are people really so hollow, so...unfulfilled...that TV shows with a bunch of vapid, fame-whoring nobodies who have about as much personality as a sample of berber carpeting passes for entertainment?!
I bring this up because I just happened to turn on the television yesterday and over a span of a few short hours I came across no less than ELEVEN different courtroom reality shows. I also see they gave a show to the big bald dude who used to do security for Jerry Springer (who is still on the air himself). Hopping over to cable proved no better, G4 TV, the supposed channel for geeks, was running the shows Cops and Cheaters, VH1 had Hulk Hogan's show, Hulk Hogan's daughter's show, a show with some loudmouth lady who used to be on Flava Flav's show, some new show with Ricki Lake and I see Irv Gotti (a guy who hasn't been relevant in the Hip-Hop industry since I was in High School) even has his own show. By god, someone's even brining MC Hammer back for his own show. Are these shows really that inexpensive to produce that these networks can pop them out like the Octomom (who, surprise, is apparently getting one of her own)?
We won't even get into the parody that MTV has become in recent years.
This post has no real point or direction, I just needed to get these thoughts down.
I do think, however, it'd be cool if we went to a network and pitched our own idea for a reality show. It'll go something like this:
1.) We approach the lobotomized monkeys that run a network
2.) The show gets pitched and sees us living in a lavish, fully furnished house somewhere in SoHo where we're free to create artistically to our hearts desire as the network provides us with money
3.) ???
4.) Profit!
Who's with me?
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Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 11:16 am
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Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 11:43 am
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Headhunter ACHTUNG!You are about to enter RANT country I have a strong feeling that I'm preaching to the choir here, but hell, I'm going to do it anyway.... What the <********> has happened to television?!?! I remember a time, not too long ago, when there was something entertaining on the idiot box pretty much every night of the week. Well scripted dramas, laugh-a-minute sitcoms, general, good ol' fashion escapism. These it seems like these days I can only ever find episodes of Who Wants to Marry America's top weight loss dance star for a chance to win 50,000 dollars! Are people really so hollow, so...unfulfilled...that TV shows with a bunch of vapid, fame-whoring nobodies who have about as much personality as a sample of berber carpeting passes for entertainment?! I bring this up because I just happened to turn on the television yesterday and over a span of a few short hours I came across no less than ELEVEN different courtroom reality shows. I also see they gave a show to the big bald dude who used to do security for Jerry Springer (who is still on the air himself). Hopping over to cable proved no better, G4 TV, the supposed channel for geeks, was running the shows Cops and Cheaters, VH1 had Hulk Hogan's show, Hulk Hogan's daughter's show, a show with some loudmouth lady who used to be on Flava Flav's show, some new show with Ricki Lake and I see Irv Gotti (a guy who hasn't been relevant in the Hip-Hop industry since I was in High School) even has his own show. By god, someone's even brining MC Hammer back for his own show. Are these shows really that inexpensive to produce that these networks can pop them out like the Octomom (who, surprise, is apparently getting one of her own)?
We won't even get into the parody that MTV has become in recent years.
This post has no real point or direction, I just needed to get these thoughts down.
I do think, however, it'd be cool if we went to a network and pitched our own idea for a reality show. It'll go something like this:
1.) We approach the lobotomized monkeys that run a network
2.) The show gets pitched and sees us living in a lavish, fully furnished house somewhere in SoHo where we're free to create artistically to our hearts desire as the network provides us with money
3.) ???
4.) Profit!
Who's with me?
But back to the rant. They'll put anything on the air nowadays...Jackass and its ilk for example. Kinda hard to believe people find moron's purposly getting themselves hurt entertaining. |
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Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 9:12 pm
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Man-Hungry Conversationalist
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Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 9:19 pm
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Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 8:52 pm
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Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 7:56 am
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Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 1:43 pm
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Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 2:16 pm
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Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 3:33 pm
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Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 3:39 pm
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Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 5:51 pm
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Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 5:56 pm
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Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 7:07 pm
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Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 9:03 pm
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