Question: What do you do when your entire concept already hit rock bottom and left a dent?
Answer?: Buy the baddest John Deere excavator on the planet and start digging, naturally!
Just in case you were endearingly delusional enough to think the 'reality' genre couldn't get any worse, Fox have announced plans to import a British concept that already spawned a flurry of lawsuits when shown there, and is likely to bury Rupert and the bubbas under an infeasible number of them if it's ever allowed near daylight here.
The show, called 'There's Something About Miriam,' has the tag line, “Six eligible men, one beautiful model...and an enormous, secret reveal you never saw coming.' Widely criticized as "the cruelest reality show idea yet," it debuted on British TV in 2004, and its participants promptly sued for conspiracy, defamation, breach of contract and personal injury in the form of psychological and emotional damage.
Would you care to imagine the amounts involved when [at least] one star of the US clone does the same thing? But, hell, why stop at the participants? I'd say the entire audience would have a fightable case! Also, by announcing the show's arrival didn't Fox just blow their 'enormous secret reveal'??
Having already poached "The Office," "Millionaire," "Deal or No Deal," and a litany of similar concepts, it's a sad commentary on American TV that those charged with its creation and governance are so intellectually and creatively barren they are copying yet another example of someone else's ideas. And this is the kind of mindless fare for which we're supposed to need Hi-Def. Somehow, I don't see the logic.
Reality is cheap TV. And cheap TV means big bucks. It's that simple. But the blinkered desperation implicit in this latest attempt to forestall its long-overdue demise makes it arguably the most insulting yet. 'Miriam' bows on the Fox Reality channel on October 31. Yes, Halloween. And a finer example of apposite scheduling I've yet to see.
Answer?: Buy the baddest John Deere excavator on the planet and start digging, naturally!
Just in case you were endearingly delusional enough to think the 'reality' genre couldn't get any worse, Fox have announced plans to import a British concept that already spawned a flurry of lawsuits when shown there, and is likely to bury Rupert and the bubbas under an infeasible number of them if it's ever allowed near daylight here.
The show, called 'There's Something About Miriam,' has the tag line, “Six eligible men, one beautiful model...and an enormous, secret reveal you never saw coming.' Widely criticized as "the cruelest reality show idea yet," it debuted on British TV in 2004, and its participants promptly sued for conspiracy, defamation, breach of contract and personal injury in the form of psychological and emotional damage.
Would you care to imagine the amounts involved when [at least] one star of the US clone does the same thing? But, hell, why stop at the participants? I'd say the entire audience would have a fightable case! Also, by announcing the show's arrival didn't Fox just blow their 'enormous secret reveal'??
Having already poached "The Office," "Millionaire," "Deal or No Deal," and a litany of similar concepts, it's a sad commentary on American TV that those charged with its creation and governance are so intellectually and creatively barren they are copying yet another example of someone else's ideas. And this is the kind of mindless fare for which we're supposed to need Hi-Def. Somehow, I don't see the logic.
Reality is cheap TV. And cheap TV means big bucks. It's that simple. But the blinkered desperation implicit in this latest attempt to forestall its long-overdue demise makes it arguably the most insulting yet. 'Miriam' bows on the Fox Reality channel on October 31. Yes, Halloween. And a finer example of apposite scheduling I've yet to see.
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