reality TV

Fat Folks Seek Gold, Stardom Via Big Brother Path
Can’t get enough of reality tv shows like Temptation Island, Survivor, or the soon-to-start FOX Boot Camp? A Dutch station is getting ready to air Big Diet!

“It won’t be like a freak show with sausages falling out of every drawer or something, but I can imagine the doorbell will ring and it’s a pizza delivery boy with a pizza,” Debbie de Jongh, one of the show’s on-site producers, told Reuters. All but one of the contestants say they do not care about the money and are not seeking fame. They simply want the opportunity to escape from their daily lives and lose weight.

I feel so dirty. I’m hanging at the in-laws in Miami right now. There’s a pseudo-game-show on the WB (it’s a channel, for those of you that don’t get all 600 networks on American TV) called Crush. It’s typical mid-Saturday, WB network fare. A guy is presented with three girls, one of whom has a crush on him. They all act like they have a crush on him, and he has to guess which one really does. It is perversely entertaining. I can actually feel the brain cells committing hari-kari as they are bombarded with culture-schlock. Please help me!
I’m sure it is pointless and nobody will believe me if I say that the last three hours is about the most television I’ve seen in months. I watch Sportscenter all the time, of course. And the X-Files, Simpsons, and Family Guy when I remember. That’s about it though. I really don’t like to watch TV. Hrrrrmm … okay … well … except for football (that’s NFL football, kids, not soccer). I haven’t missed a Monday night game in two seasons. So except for those exceptions I loathe TV and everything it represents. (imagine me laughing here) I know that it sounds silly. There is just so much bad television out there. Sheesh! My brain hurts right now.
(Note: I just saw a commercial telling me that - in Miami at least - Crush normally airs at 6:00 pm on weekdays on the USA network. … in case you want to watch …)