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Friday, November 12, 2010

Reality shows

I am just amazed at how many "reality" shows there are out there, and the new ones that are coming out. I am guilty of watching more than a few of these. The subject matter is rather funny for some of them, or more than some actually. The newest I have seen is about people going around buying things from old storage rooms that the people default on and the owners can then sell their stuff. There is one similar to that call "Pickers", which I had no idea what that meant until I watched a little bit of it. There are several shows about "Jersey". I do not get the fascination with "guidos" and "guidettes" and their antics. There is a Jersey show about hair dressers, and one about couture, and one about so-called real housewives (guilty of watching). There are the staples of reality tv that are very popular such as American Idol, Dancing with the stars, Survivor, Big Brother, The Bachelor, The Biggest Loser, The Real World, Hells Kitchen, The Apprentice, Dirty Jobs, Mythbusters, and so many more. Even old washed up stars are getting on the "reality" bandwagon. I just saw a commercial for a show Bob Saget (Full House and America's Funniest Videos) is doing. We have Steven Segal doing a show where he is a deputy sheriff, and Tony Danza is now a public school teacher, and of course Gene Simmons has a popular show (yes i watch it). Of course there was Scott Baio who did one, and Brett Michaels did one. There are shows about catching fish, catching lobster, catching crabs, chopping trees, drilling for oil, flipping houses, flipping hair, catching murderers, working out, losing weight, addictions, OCDs, teen pregnancy, adult pregnancy, having tons of kids, airlines, chasing ghosts, chasing bounties, chasing men, chasing women, getting tattoos, hoarding, singing, dancing, and a lot of cooking.  It is just crazy what people will do to be on tv. Jackass comes to mind. Here are a few that some of you, me included, have probably never heard of.....There is Airplane Repo, which is about ....yes, repo of airplanes. I just wonder how that can be that big of a problem. Amish in the City, should be pretty self explanatory. Bromance I am not sure about except that Brody Jenner was in it. "But The Sex Is So Good." The show follows the lives of real couples who have problems but stay together because their sex life is so good. Seriously? Dice Undisputed, a reality series that will offer an "intimate" look into the often humorous life of popular 1980s funny-man Andrew "Dice" Clay. Just the thought makes me laugh, and not because I found him funny. "Family Plots" was about a mortuary.  Invasion Iowa, a four-part "reality mini-series" in which The Joe Schmo Show's producers teamed with William Shatner to pull an elaborate reality hoax on the entire population of a small Iowa town. I guess everyone in Jersey was busy at this time, so Iowa was the next best thing. National Bingo Night, a  television show based on the popular pastime regularly played at numerous nursing homes, church halls and casinos across the country. *yawn* "The Singing Office" about finding talented singers in the workplace.  "You're Cut Off" about bratty, spoiled teen girls.  There are so many more but I think you get the point, or pointless. People will do almost anything for their 15 minutes of fame. The question is, 
What would you do to be on tv?  Me? There is no amount of money that would be worth embarrassing myself and my family on tv.

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