Thursday, October 02, 2003

maybe we need new TV shows

I think an interesting idea for a TV show would be for a show that looks like any news show starts doing the news. But instead of looking at the world for the news, they should look at other TV shows. For example, They would talk about things like the scandals at General Hospital, the problems with the space shuttle Enterprise, and the comments of a sports commentator on the sports show. And if something scandalous happens, like if a fictitious news reporter has an unwed pregnancy, that too should be on the "news".

Or perhaps we can have a sort of hybrid news show about people who are only important because they actually play other people on TV, or just play on TV and then look at their personal lives. So We could have Koby Bryant and his alleged sex crime. We can perhaps look at where Bruce Willis is vacationing, or maybe we can go so far as to have the political opinions of the politically astute Ricki Lake. The obituary of John Ritter would be paramount as well.
On boring days we can perhaps talk about how people on TV dress.

We already have fake shows about reality, why not fake shows about TV land?

The point is that the media spends so much time talking about itself is horrible. Occasionally I am forced to listen to someone talk about themselves for long periods of time. I think it is as boring as shit.

Sometimes the media devotes whole shows to analyses of "the media" or honest reporting, or how things were portrayed on TV or something like that.

I just want to be entertained, damnit!