Where is the bottom

I see that Home and Garden Television has a new series called Car Hunters.

Where is the bottom? Are we destined to keep on making more and more boring reality television in a desperate race to make a profitable series that pursues smaller and smaller audiences? How about a TV series featuring people watching TV's?

I wish we could go back in time and turn off our TV's when OJ was driving around in the stupid white bronco. Maybe producers wouldn't have decided that people will watch anything.

Car Hunters isn't a real show; it's an ad for Chevy. I like most of HGTV's other programming, like House Hunters International and My First Place, et al.

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Car Hunters isn't a real show; it's an ad for Chevy. I like most of HGTV's other programming, like House Hunters International and My First Place, et al.

I like their Property Virgins show, but that's mostly because the phrase "...these VIRGINS..."(emphasis in original) comes up a lot and makes me giggle.

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Car Hunters isn't a real show; it's an ad for Chevy. I like most of HGTV's other programming, like House Hunters International and My First Place, et al.

Feeling stupid.

"Reality" TV is cheap to produce.
I have an idea for the next reality TV series. It will be about left-handed Tiddlywink players using a firestation's Dalmation.
I'll get a great market: Minorities, Kids, housewives who want to ogle the firemen, dog lovers ... and I'll make even more money every episode by selling "ad space" on the tee-shirts worn by the actors. (All those logos on products and all those tee shirts are the result of Product Placement fees, you know!).

Mickey Spillane said that America always sold far more salted peanuts than caviar. Now I think we would sell no peanuts at all without a half-naked Hollywood starlet pimping for peanut processors.

Reality? If a company doesn't pay the Product Placement Fee, its logo gets pixeled out of existence. So our "reality" is so shaped by commercialism that it is a meaningless term.

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... How about a TV series featuring people watching TV's?

Or maybe a series of bad TV movies about people watching bad TV movies? MST3000!

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Where is the bottom?

Oddly enough, it's above the legs. It also happens to be where most of the ideas for these shows come from.

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Where is the bottom?

Does it matter?

One of the stupidest phrases in the English language is "We've reached bottom. There's nowhere to go but up." What if you keep crawling along the bottom indefinitely?

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Where is the bottom? Are we destined to keep on making more and more boring reality television in a desperate race to make a profitable series that pursues smaller and smaller audiences? How about a TV series featuring people watching TV's?

It is getting bad, and tghe product placement makes it worse. (Yes, I know this series is a joke, but product placement is rampant.) Soon the follopwing will be a guide to shows."

"TONIGHT ON 'THE HISTORY CHANNEL'"

8:00 PM "American Pickers" The boys find a farmer in Iowa who has a large collection of vintage fast-food restaurant equipment, inclunding Burger Chef and Subway.

8:30 PM "Pawn Stars" The Old Man brings in an expert to see if a sign from an early "Subway" store is real

9:00 PM "Amerian Rstoration" Rick Dale must restors a sign from an early "Subway" store then find a buyer

9:30 PM "Ice Road Truckers" With the season near an end, the truckers haul LTL loads, one of which is a "Subway" restaurant made to look like the first one, so as to improve morale in the oil fields.

10:00 "Modern Marvels--The Sandwich" From the time the Earl of Sandwich had the first one at a poker game to "Subway" stores today, the sandwich is America's favorite meal!

Sarah Palin's Alaska starts in a few days on TLC. At this point I doubt that this show will make a big jump in the families bottom line. The big question is does this show mean that Sarah Palin has given up on a 2012 run for president, or does it mean that she is more determined than ever?

At roughly 700K people, the population of Alaska is about average for a single one of 435 Congressional House Districts. And, she didn't even finish her single elected term.

Of course, the Republicans have a fresh new ethnic face in the Governor of South Carolina.

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Sarah Palin's Alaska starts in a few days on TLC. At this point I doubt that this show will make a big jump in the families bottom line. The big question is does this show mean that Sarah Palin has given up on a 2012 run for president, or does it mean that she is more determined than ever?

At roughly 700K people, the population of Alaska is about average for a single one of 435 Congressional House Districts. And, she didn't even finish her single elected term.

Of course, the Republicans have a fresh new ethnic face in the Governor of South Carolina.

The Palin run begs for a poll.

I have an idea. Going for broke in Vegas. You find a group of people at Mc Carran airport and then follow them until they hit it big or go broke. Free Advertising for the casinos. Tune in next week when I follow three hot blondes from Georgia play penny slots until they lose the $20.00 they brought to gamble!!!

SyFy (oh why did you change your name to something so stupid?) has a show called Hollywood Treasure. It's like American Pickers, except specifically for TV and movie merchandise.

It seemed so specific to me. They're really going to get a full season of shows out of this? How many prop Batmobiles can they find and drive around in a parking lot?

"Woah, look at us! We're driving the Batmobile! Envy us and our jobs! Wooo!"