“Sharon!! I don’t want anything to do with fucking bats!”
Remember how weak-minded pundits throughout the land opined, almost in unison, that the Sept. 11 attacks would kill the reality show?
They were – mistaken!!
Here come the nets, barely seven months later, working to ensure that the terrorists didn’t change a thing:
The Hollywood Reporter tells us the current, 11th season of “Real World” is garnering the show’s “highest viewership ever.” (Is Herc cynical enough to believe the Chicago edition was pre-empted this week so the Sept. 11 show will hit during May sweeps? He is!!) There’s even a MTV-movie version called “The Real World – The Lost Season” in the works.
Entertainment Weekly reports a second series of MTV’s top-rated “The Osbournes,” this one set in and around the family’s 100-year-old estate in rural England, is already in the works. The network is also rather cleverly pursuing a similar show that would shadow Sean “P Diddy” Combs, and a seemingly endless slate of additional reality skeins in the proud and angry tradition of “Road Rules,” “Tough Enough,” “Jackass,” “DisMissed” and the like.
Fox is putting together a celebrity version of “Boot Camp” and is ready to go with a summer reality series called “I Want a Husband: Alaska.”
CBS just ordered a third season of the increasingly popular American version of “Big Brother,” a third season of “The Amazing Race,” and a fifth and sixth season of “Survivor” (the fifth series is gearing up for a shoot on an island off the coast of Thailand).
NBC, which has ordered a third season of “Fear Factor” and a second season of “Spy TV,” also plans to launch a number of new reality series for summer, including a Dick Wolf-spawned show dubbed “Crime and Punishment,” the Fear-Factoresque “Dog Eat Dog,” and a relationship-fueled game titled “Meet My Folks.”
ABC is expected to return “Who Wants to Be A Millionaire” to its roots this summer with two weeks of almost daily airings. The net also has “Pop Idol” and “The Hamptons” bowing this summer, and is on the verge of ordering a second season of “The Bachelor,” which Entertainment Weekly points out is “ABC’s most-watched mid-season series to date (it’s averaging 10 million viewers and continues to build weekly on its 18-49 performance) … ”
Last but not least, Herc himself has a Friday meeting to pitch UPN on a mean-spirited non-fiction hourlong starring the pundits. Working title? “Nice Frickin’ Predictions, Half-Wits!”
They were – mistaken!!
Here come the nets, barely seven months later, working to ensure that the terrorists didn’t change a thing:
The Hollywood Reporter tells us the current, 11th season of “Real World” is garnering the show’s “highest viewership ever.” (Is Herc cynical enough to believe the Chicago edition was pre-empted this week so the Sept. 11 show will hit during May sweeps? He is!!) There’s even a MTV-movie version called “The Real World – The Lost Season” in the works.
Entertainment Weekly reports a second series of MTV’s top-rated “The Osbournes,” this one set in and around the family’s 100-year-old estate in rural England, is already in the works. The network is also rather cleverly pursuing a similar show that would shadow Sean “P Diddy” Combs, and a seemingly endless slate of additional reality skeins in the proud and angry tradition of “Road Rules,” “Tough Enough,” “Jackass,” “DisMissed” and the like.
Fox is putting together a celebrity version of “Boot Camp” and is ready to go with a summer reality series called “I Want a Husband: Alaska.”
CBS just ordered a third season of the increasingly popular American version of “Big Brother,” a third season of “The Amazing Race,” and a fifth and sixth season of “Survivor” (the fifth series is gearing up for a shoot on an island off the coast of Thailand).
NBC, which has ordered a third season of “Fear Factor” and a second season of “Spy TV,” also plans to launch a number of new reality series for summer, including a Dick Wolf-spawned show dubbed “Crime and Punishment,” the Fear-Factoresque “Dog Eat Dog,” and a relationship-fueled game titled “Meet My Folks.”
ABC is expected to return “Who Wants to Be A Millionaire” to its roots this summer with two weeks of almost daily airings. The net also has “Pop Idol” and “The Hamptons” bowing this summer, and is on the verge of ordering a second season of “The Bachelor,” which Entertainment Weekly points out is “ABC’s most-watched mid-season series to date (it’s averaging 10 million viewers and continues to build weekly on its 18-49 performance) … ”
Last but not least, Herc himself has a Friday meeting to pitch UPN on a mean-spirited non-fiction hourlong starring the pundits. Working title? “Nice Frickin’ Predictions, Half-Wits!”
The Hollywood Reporter tells us the current, 11th season of “Real World” is garnering the show’s “highest viewership ever.” (Is Herc cynical enough to believe the Chicago edition was pre-empted this week so the Sept. 11 show will hit during May sweeps? He is!!) There’s even a MTV-movie version called “The Real World – The Lost Season” in the works.
Entertainment Weekly reports a second series of MTV’s top-rated “The Osbournes,” this one set in and around the family’s 100-year-old estate in rural England, is already in the works. The network is also rather cleverly pursuing a similar show that would shadow Sean “P Diddy” Combs, and a seemingly endless slate of additional reality skeins in the proud and angry tradition of “Road Rules,” “Tough Enough,” “Jackass,” “DisMissed” and the like.
Fox is putting together a celebrity version of “Boot Camp” and is ready to go with a summer reality series called “I Want a Husband: Alaska.”
CBS just ordered a third season of the increasingly popular American version of “Big Brother,” a third season of “The Amazing Race,” and a fifth and sixth season of “Survivor” (the fifth series is gearing up for a shoot on an island off the coast of Thailand).
NBC, which has ordered a third season of “Fear Factor” and a second season of “Spy TV,” also plans to launch a number of new reality series for summer, including a Dick Wolf-spawned show dubbed “Crime and Punishment,” the Fear-Factoresque “Dog Eat Dog,” and a relationship-fueled game titled “Meet My Folks.”
ABC is expected to return “Who Wants to Be A Millionaire” to its roots this summer with two weeks of almost daily airings. The net also has “Pop Idol” and “The Hamptons” bowing this summer, and is on the verge of ordering a second season of “The Bachelor,” which Entertainment Weekly points out is “ABC’s most-watched mid-season series to date (it’s averaging 10 million viewers and continues to build weekly on its 18-49 performance) … ”
Last but not least, Herc himself has a Friday meeting to pitch UPN on a mean-spirited non-fiction hourlong starring the pundits. Working title? “Nice Frickin’ Predictions, Half-Wits!”
Fox is putting together a celebrity version of “Boot Camp” and is ready to go with a summer reality series called “I Want a Husband: Alaska.”
CBS just ordered a third season of the increasingly popular American version of “Big Brother,” a third season of “The Amazing Race,” and a fifth and sixth season of “Survivor” (the fifth series is gearing up for a shoot on an island off the coast of Thailand).
NBC, which has ordered a third season of “Fear Factor” and a second season of “Spy TV,” also plans to launch a number of new reality series for summer, including a Dick Wolf-spawned show dubbed “Crime and Punishment,” the Fear-Factoresque “Dog Eat Dog,” and a relationship-fueled game titled “Meet My Folks.”
ABC is expected to return “Who Wants to Be A Millionaire” to its roots this summer with two weeks of almost daily airings. The net also has “Pop Idol” and “The Hamptons” bowing this summer, and is on the verge of ordering a second season of “The Bachelor,” which Entertainment Weekly points out is “ABC’s most-watched mid-season series to date (it’s averaging 10 million viewers and continues to build weekly on its 18-49 performance) … ”
Last but not least, Herc himself has a Friday meeting to pitch UPN on a mean-spirited non-fiction hourlong starring the pundits. Working title? “Nice Frickin’ Predictions, Half-Wits!”
NBC, which has ordered a third season of “Fear Factor” and a second season of “Spy TV,” also plans to launch a number of new reality series for summer, including a Dick Wolf-spawned show dubbed “Crime and Punishment,” the Fear-Factoresque “Dog Eat Dog,” and a relationship-fueled game titled “Meet My Folks.”
ABC is expected to return “Who Wants to Be A Millionaire” to its roots this summer with two weeks of almost daily airings. The net also has “Pop Idol” and “The Hamptons” bowing this summer, and is on the verge of ordering a second season of “The Bachelor,” which Entertainment Weekly points out is “ABC’s most-watched mid-season series to date (it’s averaging 10 million viewers and continues to build weekly on its 18-49 performance) … ”
Last but not least, Herc himself has a Friday meeting to pitch UPN on a mean-spirited non-fiction hourlong starring the pundits. Working title? “Nice Frickin’ Predictions, Half-Wits!”
Last but not least, Herc himself has a Friday meeting to pitch UPN on a mean-spirited non-fiction hourlong starring the pundits. Working title? “Nice Frickin’ Predictions, Half-Wits!”
