Not even counting the ones on cable, the new one tonight is on network TV. Greg Louganis teaching celebrities to dive, both springboard and platform. At least there will be eye candy in the form of Katherine Webb, Nicole Eggart, and others, but for that we also get Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Louie Anderson, and Ndamukong Suh.
Seriously?
when people start cutting cable and stop watching it. until then, every idea seems to make money because people are obsessed with watching other people do things.
This really just harkens back to the early days of reality TV, Battle of the Network Stars. Except here they can actually hurt themselves, which is the only reason anyone will watch.
Not even counting the ones on cable, the new one tonight is on network TV. Greg Louganis teaching celebrities to dive, both springboard and platform. At least there will be eye candy in the form of Katherine Webb, Nicole Eggart, and others, but for that we also get Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Louie Anderson, and Ndamukong Suh.
Seriously?
Besides Suh, Abdul-Jabbar, and Louis Anderson, I have absolutely no idea who any of those people are.
Never because all you need is celebrities and an idea. ‘Reality’ TV is dirt cheap for the networks to make and people (for some reason that I’ll never understand) can’t get enough of it.
For the record, I never watch ‘Reality’ TV. And yes, reality should always be in quotes when referring to ‘Reality’ TV.
Besides Suh, Abdul-Jabbar, and Louis Anderson, I have absolutely no idea who any of those people are. 
Katherine Webb (Miss Alabama?) is on the right. The girl next to her was the little girl on The Cosby Show. I don’t know the others.
Greg Louganis is still alive?
Mmmm.
How about “Hitman Wars”. Get a few assassins and see who can kill the most B-grade celebrities.
I don’t know why but I just looked up who will be on this show. My favourite ‘celebrity’ is Kendra Wilkinson: ‘Reality’ TV star and former girlfriend of Hugh Hefner.
when people start cutting cable and stop watching it. until then, every idea seems to make money because people are obsessed with watching other people do things.
I could watch this guy for hours.
I don’t know why but I just looked up who will be on this show. My favourite ‘celebrity’ is Kendra Wilkinson: ‘Reality’ TV star and former girlfriend of Hugh Hefner.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splash_(TV_series)
She’d be perfect for my Hitman show.
So on her resume, does she list “Former girlfriend of Hugh Hefner”? Or does she just put prostitute?
Prostition is illegal in California.
Mooching off of a rich dirty old man with a supply of boner pills is ok, though.
I think her business card should just say “Bimbo”.
Prostition is illegal in California.
Mooching off of a rich dirty old man with a supply of boner pills is ok, though.
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Prostition is illegal in California.
Mooching off of a rich dirty old man with a supply of boner pills is ok, though.
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I think it all depends on how much you get paid.
When will they run out of reality shows?
When the reality show phenomenon has grown to the point where everyone is too busy watching them to have a life worth covering in a reality show. Even then, they’ll probably have reality shows about people who watch reality shows, at least until the audience gets bored with that. 
It seems like when reality shows first became popular it was a given that a former member of the Brady Bunch would be on one. Now it seems like anyone can get one. Case in point is a local snowplow driver who was dumb enough to post video of himself during a blizzard last month plowing huge amounts of snow over people’s cars and ends of driveways and gloating about it, in some instances laughing and swearing at people as he’d block the end of their freshly cleared driveway, and then going on the local news stations saying how much he likes pissing people off. The contracting company he worked for wasn’t amused where it was their name on his truck and he got fired as a result. Within a day or two he supposedly was mulling three different reality show offers. Unbelievable.
“The mass media first convinced us that the imaginary was real, and now they are convincing us that the real is imaginary; and the more reality the TV screen shows us, the more cinematic our every day world becomes. Until, as certain philosophers have insisted, we will think we are alone in the world, and that everything is else is the film that God or some evil spirit is projecting before our eyes.”
Umberto Eco, 1989, from How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays
Greg Louganis is still alive?
Mmmm.
How about “Hitman Wars”. Get a few assassins and see who can kill the most B-grade celebrities.
I was going to say, until we get back to Gladiator games in some form or another, they will keep on with this stuff. Once we accept that we are all savages and could not help but watch people kill eachother, that would become the only entertainment, or account for most of it. We would have death races, public executions, the running man, plain ol’ gladiator fighting. We’ve been teatering around this for decades, if not centuries.
Not soon enough.
Judging by the number of times people have asked me to post videos of me"swaggering"I can start my own reality show! I need a camera person and producer. Anyone volunteer?