9th
FAIL.
Each year television viewers emerge in January from the traditional December blizzard of holiday specials and college football bowl games seeking new comforts from their favorite comedies and dramas, shows like “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Two and a Half Men” and “House.”
“Two and a Half Men”? “TWO AND A HALF MEN”? This is a “favorite” show? Its only redeeming value is taking air time away from “Everybody Loves Raymond” on my local Fox station (and I’d be happier watching a test pattern than “Everybody loves Raymond”).
In their place on the networks’ schedules will be repeats or reality programs, some of them returning but many of them new — shows like “The Moment of Truth,” a Fox offering in which contestants are strapped to a lie detector and asked about their most intimate secrets on a national stage.
What the fuck? It’s like a daytime talk show, but with more of an S&M/Guantanamo feel? That’s just fucking sick.
“The Moment of Truth” is but one of as many as 27 hours a week of reality programming that the broadcast networks are planning for the first quarter of 2008, according to schedules released in recent weeks and interviews with network officials.
Please just give the writers what they want. In fact, give them more.
I almost wish I had cable so I could cancel it in protest of this dreck. I’d throw out my rabbit ears, but then I couldn’t watch PBS, which seems unaffected by the strike. Shame more people won’t be turning to it instead of watching the new “American Gladiators.”
New York Times, “You Couldn’t Write This Stuff: TV Reality Sets In”, Dec. 8, 2007.
