Let's start with Survivor. If you're gonna call it "Survivor" take the camera crews off, give the camera's to the people that have to live through it and let them go. Fuck challenges and voting to see who gets kicked off. Make the two tribes stalk each other. When a tribe captures someone from the other side, that person gets kicked off. BUT, the boat to take the prisoner off only shows up once a week. NOW we'll see some action.

On to "Temptation Island". The people get to choose who they want to go on a date with. That's not temptation! I say, put the four guys in a room with all the girls, put the four girls in a room with all the guys, drop in a couple of cases of alcohol and put hidden cameras everywhere and, again, remove the camera crews. Maybe add a couple of fat, ugly, nasty, scanky, people into the mix. We'll REALLY see some remorse from these people when they not only have to tell their significant others what they did but also have to tell them they did those things with some mutant, bovine-monkey cross breed. I'd watch to see those reactions.

As for "Popstar". Here's yet more proof that people are willing to degrade the arts (music in this case) for the almighty dollar. We already have enough pulp like N'Sync, the Backstreet Boys, Spice Girls, Britney Spear and Christna Aguilera. Do we really need a TV show promoting this hideous bastardization of creativity?

If any of you are fans of these shows and I've offended you, GOOD! Maybe you'll take the time to explain why human misery and lack of artistic intregrity are so entertaining!

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damage@detonate.net

"On a long enough timeline the survival rate for anyone drops to zero."
-Narrator 'Fight Club.'

What annoys me most about the whole popstar thing, is that you JUST KNOW their first song is gonna hit the top ten and sell loads.
It annoys me that these guys can concoct a 'popular band' and feed it to society and we'll lap it up (myself excluded as I vow to never buy or dance to their future crap), knowing full well it's more preprocessed than American cheese, all whilst we constantly clamor for the right to be creative and individual, how we hate the 'corporate vampires' that try to feed on us.

fuck, the human race is gullible.

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As for "Popstar". Here's yet more proof that people are willing to degrade the arts (music in this case) for the almighty dollar.

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I got an idea for a reality based show. First you change the name to "Pornstar". You have 15 hot ass chicks in a room sucking dick. At the end of the night they pump thier stomachs and the girl with the most semen in her wins.

That would get some fucking ratings.

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Chastity is curable, if detected early.
I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder.
For Sale: Parachute. Only used once, never opened, small stain.

now thats entertainment!!!

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Hey DKB shu'p with all that jibba jabber ya crazy foo!

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...when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you
-- Friedrich Nietzsche

battle bots rule

Anime
Comedy
Computer gaming shows
Simpsons, futurama, etc.

Reality TV is not real at all. How often are you stuck on islands with so much alcohol and members of the opposite sex. Or how often do you have to live with a group of people in one house, try to be the best among them, for a competition to win a large sum of money.

Not too often.

AKA reality tv is a cry for ratings.

They had practice sessions for two days before hand to make sure that everyone could throw a boomerang.

Also, one guy actually tried to do some real survivor stuff and went out and caught a wild pig. They are a pest in the outback, and are being shot to try and get rid of them, so you might think that him catching a pig would be a good thing. He then proceded to kill it. Now the RSPCA has gotten involved for the perceived cruelty to animals, and wants that section of the show banned from Australian screens.

What a load of toss....

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kuru
'dancing is the vertical expression of horizontal desire.'
-robert frost

I think the rational is that America's perception of Australia is what we learned in Crocadile Dundee (I AND II). I'm just guessing that there are, like, cities and stuff there. I don't understand why they can't find a big enough section of America and drop some poor schmucks out there.

Surviver III: The Utah Salt Flats
"Dude, there's, like, no food out here."

Surviver IV: Des Moines, Iowa
"Dude, all the corn is feed corn... gross. Let's go kill a pig"

Me and a buddy went over to Catalina Island a few years ago loaded for bear 'cause he'd heard that they had loads of wild pigs there. Good thing we didn't shoot them as the island is all privately owned and a Cal state hunting license doesn't entitle shooting there. The sheriff wasn't looking too pleased with two guys walking with a small arsenal through the town there.

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I don't understand why they can't do Surviver III somewhere in America... like, Iowa... Arkansas... the Arizona desert.

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or how about a hollywood set? thats where they film most stuff these days.

Isn’t the whole thing kind of based on politics? What with people voting each other off the island and whatnot? It seems to me that they aren’t “surviving” in the wilderness; if they (apparently) aren’t allowed to kill and eat pigs and such then it stands to reason that someone is feeding them. Maybe they’re stealing food from the 200 person camera-crew buffet. They also must have a nice medical staff on location in case someone comes across one of Australia’s hundreds of the worlds most poisonous animals (including snakes, spiders, and jellyfish-hell the fucking PLATYPUS is poisonous)

So why don’t they just call it what it is: a month long popularity contest held outside.