Reality TV

Nameless Show I Wish to Put a Name to for Some Reason

I was flipping channels late last night and found a show that looks a lot like Superstar USA. That was the one where they picked really awful singers and then mocked them mercilessly without them knowing it. One of the judges on the show last night was the pouty guy from American Idol, Constantine. Anyone heard of this show or know what it is? I checked IMDB and Constantine's website - who knew he had one? - and couldn't find anything. Perhaps he is embarrassed. As well he should be.

Armed and Famous

Perhaps Eric Estrada will be OK, since he played Ponch on CHiPs all those years ago. LaToya looks positively cadaverous in the ads. Have we run out of ideas, then? This is the best we, as a society, can come up with? How sad.

Deal or No Deal

It's a game show, so it's sort of reality. How did this show get so big so fast? It's so slooooow. And Howie Mandel isn't even a little bit funny. He never was. I don't get it.

Weird French Game Show Programming

The concept of 1 vs 100 reminds me vaguely of an old French program on SRC (CBC in French) called Que le meilleur gagne (May the Best Person Win). I liked that one. Basically, you started out with a room full of people in stadium seating and eliminated those who answered incorrectly until you were down to the final person.

There was, up until a little while a go, a show called La fureur that made me laugh ever time I saw it. There is a girls team and a boys team. Everyone gets a microphone. The host chick cranks up a tune and one team sings. Partway into the song, they turn the music off and the team has to keep singing by themselves. As if the concept itself wasn't funny enough, the teams sing *at* each other, in a challenging kind of way when they know the words. Whichever team knows the words best wins, I guess. I don't think I've ever seen prizes awarded. Mind you, Canadian game show Grand Prizes tend to be $200 or less.