Posts tagged as Reality
Bravo's In-Development Shows: Is This Still the Golden Age of Reality?
Bravo this morning announced a few new "INNOVATIVE AND DIVERSE DOCU-DRAMA AND CHARACTER-DRIVEN PROJECTS," which we assume means "a whole load of new reality TV"! I mean, nowhere does it say that any of these are "scripted," so. They include: READ MORE
Nation's Seat of Government Secretly Very Boring!
Poor D.C. is really being torn apart by the invasion of Real Housewives. (It's like K Street never happened!) Writes Mike Riggs: "In reality D.C., everyone who steps into a Cadillac Escalade might wind up sharing canapés with Al Franken at a reception for the Finnish finance minister. In real D.C., even Kal Penn-caliber celebs find themselves balanced out by slack-jawed number crunchers, dumpy lobbyists, and disillusioned activists hustling opaque, fine-print agendas." SOUNDS FUN.
'Miami Social' Really Is "Stupid," Says Its Greenlighter, So Why The Heck....
"I actually think MIAMI SOCIAL is the perfect summer show. It's stupid and sexy fun," blogged Bravo exec and, uh, blogger Andy Cohen (who I find actually very hilarious) on Tuesday. Hrrm! Why you wanna put stupid things on the air? This show is so stupid (HOW STUPID IS IT?) that I won't even put a clip of it up on this website. And I mention this only because I am only now reading the rather amazing, hilarious Times review of the horrible show. READ MORE
Reality In the Age of Michael Bay, Neda, Alexa Chung, Andrew Sullivan, James Wood, Twitter, 2 Girls 1 Cup and the Digital Surround-Sound
"I was that kind of bored the other night, the kind of bored where you want to see things explode. The first time I saw the movie Armageddon, I saw it in a movie theater, which is of course because of technical reasons the best place to see things explode, the loudness of the speakers and the largeness of the screen more realistically representing what an explosion feels like than the average television set, or at least I assume so, having never actually felt an actual explosion in real life myself. "
