Category Archives: reality

This Man Should Run NBC !

In an interview that appears today on Forbes.com, ten-time Emmy Award-winner Steven Bochco becomes the latest witness to Network greed. He’s decided to take his new drama series, “Raising the Bar,” to the cable station TNT, instead of to one … Continue reading

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MTV Scrapes the Barrel….Again

In what may be their dumbest, most dangerous and calculated attempt to boost their ratings to the dizzying heights of double figures, MTV is now casting a new “Reality” show where impressionable teens will be required to suffer borderline-anorexia in … Continue reading

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A Banquet of Banality…

Just in case you were under the quite understandable impression that “Reality” shows couldn’t get any dumber or their creators more desperate, our friends at The Food Network would like to prove you wrong. The formerly respectable channel has decided … Continue reading

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Bravo is not the word I’d use…

Clearly as short of ideas as most of its current slate is of viewers, Bravo is now trying to persuade the few brave souls who still watch Project Runway to throw ‘viewing parties.’ The idea is that fans of the … Continue reading

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The Reality is….Horrific!

In news that hits rather too close to home for my taste, and which may also be a harbinger of oncoming doom for the US market, the news is coming in that the British commercial broadcast network, ITV, might be … Continue reading

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I Think I’ll Move into a Cave…

Enjoy your Thursday, folks – For those of us who find sports less than irresistibly transfixing, this is the last day of freedom we’ll see for two weeks. NBC’s coverage of the Olympics begins tomorrow and will continue at levels … Continue reading

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