CBS: 'Hillbillies' Reality Series Alive

[RememberJohn]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030720/ap_on_en_tv/cbs_hillbilly_reality_2

Thoughts? Not your general disdain for reality shows in the general but on the premise of this one in particular.

[FlashHarry]

1. Bottom of the barrel.

How 'bout "The Grosse Pointe Negroes," or "The Westchester Hispanics?" This is offensive, no matter how you slice it.


Listen, reality shows are the SUVs of television. Corporations love them because they offer really high profit margins. (SUVs are just trucks with luxury bodies grafted on. Reality shows don't have to pay actors or writers, and they're filmed on video tape, so they're cheap to produce.)

[RememberJohn]

2. Your description of Reality Shows is right on!

Even though I like some of them!

[Lisa]

3. I love his reasoning -- "We were right about the Hitler miniseries ...

... Therefore we're right about this too."

[mkregel]

4. OOOOHHH BOY!

Let's make fun of the southerners!

Shit, I'm from California and this makes me mad.

[DieboldMustDie]

5. How about if Moonves and his family...

move to a cabin in Appalachia for a while and they make a show out of that?

[Archae]

6. I have a better idea for a "reality" show.

Any and all of the people responsible for this shit gets filmed being canned from the network, and watch the antics they have to do, since the only jobs they can get now are ones where they say "You want fries with that?"

See the suits having to sell their Beemers!
See them pawning the huge HDTV's they bought!
Watch their gripping dramas in bankruptcy court!

:evilgrin: