That grinding noise you can hear in the background is the suits in charge of American TV scraping the bottom of an already over-mined barrel in a desperate effort to fill the airwaves and make people watch. Their latest blend of peerless stupidity and collective intellectual bankruptcy is to be called "Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew.” This VH1-sponsored insult is an eight-episode series that will follow "Celebrities" through detox and other treatments at a Rehab center in L.A.
The 'Celebrities' are Brigitte Nielsen, Chyna, Daniel Baldwin, Jeff Conaway, Jessica Sierra, Jaimee Foxworth, Seth Binzer, Mary Carey and Ricco Rodriguez.
Hands up if you've ever even met anyone who's heard of them??
Drew Pinsky, the host of the show, and probably the only trained physician willing to endanger both his license and his sanity on this mindless efluveum says his goal is, "to lift the veil and help my patients, as well as viewers, understand that addiction is a disease that will kill you."
Altogether now...Well, Duh!?!
The series will follow these attention-addicted, D-list-Wannabes through a 21-day detox program with both group and solo therapy sessions. After they complete the program the saddest cases are invited to dry out completely at VH1's expense. In their shoes, being faced with such incontrovertible evidence that my career was now brain-dead would render such remedial care a need beyond desperate.
"Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew" is Executive Produced by John Irwin and Damian Sullivan. Dr. Drew Pinsky and Howard Lapides are also Executive Producers. And just in case the payroll wasn't padded enough, Michael Hirschorn, Jeff Olde, Jill Holmes and Noah Pollack will Executive Produce for VH1.
...Could someone explain to me why, exactly, it takes eight people on six-figure salaries to "Executive Produce" 41-minutes of Television that wouldn't tax the IQ of a Care Bear??
The show...for want of a term of pithier, more Anglo-Saxon derivation...will debut on Vh1 on January 10th. Should any of you have the slightest inclination to watch, you might care to consider some treatment yourself?
The 'Celebrities' are Brigitte Nielsen, Chyna, Daniel Baldwin, Jeff Conaway, Jessica Sierra, Jaimee Foxworth, Seth Binzer, Mary Carey and Ricco Rodriguez.
Hands up if you've ever even met anyone who's heard of them??
Drew Pinsky, the host of the show, and probably the only trained physician willing to endanger both his license and his sanity on this mindless efluveum says his goal is, "to lift the veil and help my patients, as well as viewers, understand that addiction is a disease that will kill you."
Altogether now...Well, Duh!?!
The series will follow these attention-addicted, D-list-Wannabes through a 21-day detox program with both group and solo therapy sessions. After they complete the program the saddest cases are invited to dry out completely at VH1's expense. In their shoes, being faced with such incontrovertible evidence that my career was now brain-dead would render such remedial care a need beyond desperate.
"Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew" is Executive Produced by John Irwin and Damian Sullivan. Dr. Drew Pinsky and Howard Lapides are also Executive Producers. And just in case the payroll wasn't padded enough, Michael Hirschorn, Jeff Olde, Jill Holmes and Noah Pollack will Executive Produce for VH1.
...Could someone explain to me why, exactly, it takes eight people on six-figure salaries to "Executive Produce" 41-minutes of Television that wouldn't tax the IQ of a Care Bear??
The show...for want of a term of pithier, more Anglo-Saxon derivation...will debut on Vh1 on January 10th. Should any of you have the slightest inclination to watch, you might care to consider some treatment yourself?
