I have a soft spot for reality TV...there - I said it...
Here's Bob Johnson's rundown of current and recent shows which have only proliferated since the writer's strike started...
Rock of Love II: Are there ANY strippers working in L.A. when this thing is filming? I think every low-rent 2-bit quasi-prostitute there might be a participant on this show, chasing after a second-rate Motley Crue-wannabe singer that has no hair and can't come to grips with it, so he has a rug that's held down by a bandanna.
Wow- how did this thing get legs again? A SECOND time?
Anyway, it's down to Ambre, Dayzee, and, I think, Destiny (seriously - do they get paid in lengthwise folded dollar bills???), with Dayzee in the lead (see pic above), with her tats and street speak (she sounds like Flava Flav). I really hoping Bret Michaels is making a LOT of money off this, as I feel more stupid by osmosis after every viewing this train wreck...
Scott Baio is 46 and Pregnant: If anything, this is a reason to show why you shouldn't marry the president of your fan club. Chachi pals around with a couple losers (namely super-pud Johnny, and the older brother from The Wonder Years, who, most recently, was James Schrushy's best buddy before he got sent off to jail for fraud charges) and can't seem to get past an 8th grade mentality. At least his wife (to be) has it right - she hates them too. Which leads into...
My Fair Brady: Peter Brady (age: 50) and some smack-addict-cum-model Adrianne (age: 23) walk around fighting like cats and dogs. Peter can't fathom why his daughter ERRRRRRRRRR, I mean, his wife, won't listen to him and get pregnant. She wonders why he can't see why she's just using him to get ahead in this modeling career that hasn't seemed to start yet. Madcap-antics ensue...and where does an actor that hasn't worked in 30+ years get all this money?
High School Reunion: A bunch of hicks from Texas that went to high school together get thrown into this weird Big Brother situation in Hawaii, where everyone loves each other until they drop an ass that slept with one of the guy's wives in. Now it's just "eerie awkward silence show" as both the other dude and his (now) ex-wife are there too...waiting for the fistfight to break out...
The 808: Boneheads on the North Shore of Oahu show why it's OK to party 24/7, not go to school or work, get in fights and act like all-around jerks in the name of being local and preserving culture. But the surfing is good.
But the best has to be
Paradise Hotel II (because one wasn't enough), as Nate got voted off, then went home, gathered his things, drove to a cell tower, and jumped off it, leaving a 6" divot in the ground. Fox then STILL aired the show after knowing this...
From Wikipedia - I can't make this stuff up...
Nathan "Nate" Clutter (25 years old) worked at a call center in Phoenix, AZ. His official profile states he is "articulate, smart and courteous".[11] Nathan committed suicide on October 12, 2007 shortly after production wrapped on Paradise Hotel 2. He killed himself by jumping off of an Alltel cellular telephone tower, though his death was covered by the show's networks by saying he was killed in an climbing accident in Amarillo, TX.[12] Nathan's family and the producers decided to keep Nathan's scenes in the full run of the episodes.
There's more, but I have to rest for now...it's almost happy hour...
Bruce Springsteen endorses Obama for president.
