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CBS Relaunches BEVERLY HILLBILLIES As A Reality Series!!
Real critters by a real ce-ment pond!
According to Wednesday morning’s Daily Variety:
CBS will begin casting shortly for a weekly half-hour series that will follow the adventures of a rural, lower-middle class family as they are transplanted from their humble digs to an actual Beverly Hills mansion.
During their one-year stay in California, they'll be afforded a wide variety of luxuries they'd normally be unable to afford, from maid service to personal assistants. They'll also have a chance to earn a substantial income each week, either via a stipend or through some other means.
I liked this idea the first time I heard about it – when it was called “The Anna Nicole Show”!
Read Josef Adalian’s entire piece for Variety here.
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I'm humiliated to be first.
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Why oh why oh why are we being cursed with shittier and shittier reality TV? Message to America: STOP WATCHING THIS CRAP. What an truly ridiculous idea.
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Shoot they oughta take a hick and put him in Celebrity Bootcamp and call it "Gomer Pyle - The Reality Show"
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...if I agree with a show that blatantly draws attention to America's less fortunate. Sure it may seem like you are doing them a favour making them rich for a year, but it seems derogatory to callit Beverly Hillbillies (whether they are or are not the definitive hillbilly by American standards). It just showcases the snobbish AMercian preoccupation with entertainment at the expense of others.
"Hey Let's give you a taste of being rich and have America rape..er... sorry I mean exploit you for a year and then return you to your sub-standard living enivronments"
I wouldn't be surprised if Greenpeace or some other radical lobby group for caged animals would get involved.
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It's called the music industry.
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**** WKRP Cincinatti - LIVE: Watch a disperate group of people attempt to run a second-string radio station
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They aren't seriously going to use the name. If so, someone should sue. First the people who created the show or there estate. Then Buddy Ebsen because he needs the money, then the American people because CBS just gave backwoods redneck,ignorant, stump-jumping peckerwoods a TV show and a butt load of money. Hey I want a TV show, I have just as much right to one as Anna, Ozzy or these idiots. Apparently the only reason I can't is I'm not a drug addict and I graduated from high school.
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Can't you just see it?
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Aug 28, 2002 10:18:20 AM CDT
come on Herc... you just admitted to liking the Anna Nicole Show
by burlivesleftnut
do you know what that does to your reputation?!? I thought you were better than that.
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No way, ignorant hillbillies are funny. Hopefully they'll take advantage of the situation and get their teeth fixed or something. I bet the hot hillbilly daughter gets knocked up the first (and porbably only) season. We should make a betting pool on who the dad will be. I got 5 on the pool-boy.
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But hillbillies will get the wrong idea. Everyone knows that you just fire your shot gun into the ground and sooner or later "...up comes a bubblin' crude, oil that is..."
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And no self-respecting hillbilly gets knocked up by a non-relative. A hot pocket on the "Jethro" character.
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As someone from a poor county, let me say that if they pick sensible people this will be boring. See, poor rural people watch teh same shows as everyone else. We see all these rich people on tv and we know how to act rich.
Now I went to college and met a lot of city people and let me tell you there are a lot of city people that would have absolutely no idea how to survive a rural lifestyle. As someone said, the frontier house was really interesting seeing the city people try to get used to country life. What they did on that show were things my parents grew up doing.
Of course as others have pointed out, they won't pick adverage rural people, they will pick a bunch of freaks and everyone will think people who live in the country are freaks and ignorant. -
...now all they do is let a computer dictate what people might want to see. Typical CBS board room meeting: "Gentlemen, the computer has spoken. Here are the latest programing choices: "Gilligan's Island On Crack"? ...no... "Everybody Loves Raymond's Parents"? ...maybe... "The Gay Adventures Of Batman & Robin"? ...skip it... "The Return Of Donny & Marie"? ...think about it... "The Brady Bunch Today"? ...strong possibility... "The Real Life Beverly Hillbillies"? ...YES, YES, YES!!! Meeting ajourned!..."
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...now THERE'S an original idea for a reality show. I hope it works out, and those "poor people" might actually get some job skills or some future investment capitol for their futures.
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Y'know what would be actually interesting? Take an inherited-millionaire and force him to live on a poverty-level income for a few months. Now there's a REALITY series.
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Aug 28, 2002 11:32:20 AM CDT
Uh, exactly when did Herc say he liked the Anna Nicole Show?
by hercules
Produce the link, s'il vous plait.
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...until I realised that what we're talking about is virtually "The Osbournes". Look at it this way, Ozzy seems totally unaffected by the millions he's made over the years, still proudly sports a Birmingham accent, and still maintains his working class outlook on life. Example : "Did you set out out be a rock star ?" Ozzy's answer - "Nah, I wanted to be a plumber". His bemusement and disbelief at the very existense of a dog psychologist...let alone the fact that his well meaning wife actually employed one insted of just opening the door to let the dog crap outside. Still....when I read this proposal, it IS kind of fun to imagine the kind of Jerry Springer trailer park trash landing in one of the most exclusive neighborhoods in the world. Sounds like more of a ratiings grabber than Anna Nicole, which thankfully, has yet to air in the UK. It's inevitable, though.
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...having now read the thread up above, someone came up with the idea of having someone of inherited wealth in a role-reversal, where he'd be living the backwoods life. Now THAT's an idea. Take a priviliged rich white trash (not all white trash lives in trailers by a long chalk) and put them out there in the Appalachians. Take the cell phones, the fax machines, the BMWs the whole lot away from them....give them a barely working pickup,though. They'd never survive.
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Herc, follow the link below and look at your comments below the main article. http://www.aint-it-cool-news.com/display.cgi?id=13111
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We have the idea of poor becoming rich for a year and then the other idea of rich becoming poor. They should scrap this idea for this one: TRADING PLACES: THE REALITY SERIES. Just so you know... I came up with this gem first and when it eventually gets picked up, I get the credit, mofos.
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"Frontier House" on PBS. A rip of a UK series--"1900 House" or something--and about as exciting as watching paint dry. I dug the turn-of-the-century tampons though.
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america has proved that it will watch intelligent television (Wow is that an oxymoron or what)
we made shows like CSI, The West Wing,and 47 different spin offs from Law & Order. So now due to the success of survivor and the osbournes. I personally don't care for either show...everytime i see someone wearing an Osbourne shirt i just shake my head and think i remember when Ozzy was REALLY cool) -
Network television needs more shotguns and inbreeding. My prayers have been answered!!
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Hey, stupid Americans, stop watching this reality crap. This idea is just proof positive that Hollywood has no new ideas and that we Americans are as dumb as a box of hammers if we watch this shit. It just makes me wanna cry.
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...but most of us do not subscribe to variety.com, so your links to articles there aren't really doing us any good. Just sayin'.
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....turn of the century tampons ? Explain yourself, young man. (Aw, come on...y'all wanna know, you're just too embarrassed to ask !)
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What did we do THIS time ?
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sorry
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I agree that this a stupid idea, but I understand the original show was quite succesfull right? (I'm not even from US, and I'm making jokes.. sorry again) So what makes you all think this won't work?
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What a turn-of-the-century tampon is. It is something you have to see for yourself. Wait for pledge-drive week.
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This is pretty predictable but - Take the heads of programming, market reseach and development from each network and put them into the House of Excruciating Pain. Veiwers laugh along as they try to endure the Room Full of Knives, Rottweiller Alley, and a video library of the rejected applicants for Survivor, American Idol, Temptation Island, The Chair, Dog Eat Dog and The Mole. Watch the slaw their own ears off as the entire cast of Big Brother comes over for the weekend.
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Aug 28, 2002 3:24:24 PM CDT
These shows are only interesting if the subjects are stupid
by roosterbooster
Who the hell wants to see nice, polite, well-adjusted people doing this stuff? It's good to see morons humiliating themselves because it gives the viewers (who, in the main, are no mensa candidates themselves) someone to look down upon thus boosting their self-esteem. The reality tv craze began a few years ago in Sweden with Project Robinson, in which nice, polite, well-educated Scandinavians performed simple tasks on a desert island. It was very dull. So they started to pick stupid, confrontational people and the viewers lapped it up. The nadir was reached here in the UK with the latest series of Big Brother which featured a pack of demented and sub-normal attention-seekers whom the producers tried to prod into having sex with each other, like they were pandas in captivity or something. The "celebrity" variety can be quite revealing though, eg I now know that Uri Geller (remember him? Spoon-bending Israeli lad from the 70s?) is very, very creepy.
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More proof that the world is heading for it's eventual destruction. Silly me, I thought that it would take the explosion of the sun to reduce this world to a burnt-out cinder. Now I realise that the 5th horseman is actually a guy in a suit that dictates what is entertainment. They can all go straight to hell. Where did I leave my bourbon? I hope whatever hapless family gets the "honor" (no doubt they are considering a family from my state, no less) well I hope they piss on the microphones and smear shit on all the camera lenses. Oh, the humanity! Why not get a bunch of african americans, give them some cash, film it and call it "The Niggers". That's where we are heading, folks. I think I'll kill my TV, like all thoses bumper stickers implore you to do. Hey, how about "The Spics"? or "The Jews"? Of course no one in Hollywood would go for that. Or would they? FUCK THEM UP THEIR STUPID ASSES!!!!!
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CBS owns the rights to the name,
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Go read this site, and then tell
me you wouldn't watch this show:
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Ladies and Gentelmen. . . it is all about the class war.
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No this is far WORSE !!! Instead of going with a bang, which would actually be something interesting, from now on, it's just a very long and painful decline back into the primordial ooze. Sic transit ...
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Aug 28, 2002 7:25:02 PM CDT
So what happens again after one year is through? They are just s
by el duderino
This is incredible, and to think a decade or so ago Network television was still considered superior to Cable...
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"I agree that this a stupid idea, but I understand the original show was quite succesfull right? (I'm not even from US, and I'm making jokes.. sorry again) So what makes you all think this won't work?" Punto, I think you're forgetting that the original show was (a) a total fantasy and (b) wasn't meanspirited and cynical. Goofy and silly, yes, but it was good-natured at heart (and Jim Varney understood this when he did the ill-received movie update--he was the one thing about the movie that most folks liked). Let's face it, folks, the fictional Clampetts were a loony bunch, but they were no more extreme than the stock characters you saw in Bugs Bunny cartoons. This show is something else entirely. First off, it sounds extremely mean-spirited (give a poor family a year of wealth and luxury and that's the end of it--what's goona happen when the family gets booted out at year's end?), and it's conceived in the cynicism of the present era of reality shows. There won't be the innocent goofiness of the original show; it'll be crude, crass exploitation like THE ANNA NICOLE SHOW (although that tips more toward self-exploitation). The guys they stick in the mansion for this reality show will be just as crass and abrasive as Anna Nicole Smith or any of the guys on the other reality shows, they won't be the good-natured folks that the fictional Clampetts were. That's the problem we have with this show. It's a sick, cynical, exploitative rating ploy at the expense of a poor family, designed solely to cash in on the reality show craze.
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Anyone want to start a pool on how many times this family will get arrested? (Let's face it, the family CBS picks will be the one with the most garbage bags full of empty beer cans next to their trailor) Here's a better idea for a reality show- go around with a camera explaining 'creativity' to TV execs- it'll have to be on HBO, however, because network TV won't be able to show real footage of human heads exploding.
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If anyone out there doesn't think that there's an appetite for this, well, you must have not been paying very much attention during the Clinton administration.
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Fuck, you Yanks sure know how to shit on the lower classes. This is about as crass as it gets. i wonder what L.A. cell-phone head thought this little number up. American television is starting to consume itself. Starting with it's own asshole.
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Hell, why not homeless? Let's at least do something GOOD while remaining entertaining ;-)
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in Europe, lest you forget. Not sure where you're from, but your use of the word "Yank" leads me to believe it might be from the kingdom of Classism itself. (and I stress the word "kingdom")
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You know, right now is when we could use you Farscapers hijacking these Talkbacks.
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Ha, Ha...yeah right!
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Nice work with the Anna Nicole line Herc. Classical.
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I Googled the names in the VARIETY story. Ghen Maynard and Gary Auerbach are as advertised. James Jones? Dunno. Too many Jones' swimming in the deep blue Google. "Veteran documentarist Dub Cornett"? His Google is all above his contributing vocals to the "O Brother Where Art Thou?" soundtrack. Nary a mention of a document, documentary, or documentarist.
Remember how NBC was going to do a new reality show, "Survive This", hosted by the two rescued-just-in-time abused California girls?
This is like that. An eyebrow uplifted, a smirk, and a hearty "Yeah. Right." -
Aug 29, 2002 8:52:34 AM CDT
Any of yous ever see that Beverly Hillbillies parody of Dire Str
by axelfoley
If you were won of the 24 people who saw the very funny Weird Al Yankovic movie UHF, check it out. It's brilliant. BTW, reality tv's getting a LITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTLLLLLLLLLLLE out of hand there, wouldn't you say there, chester? -
If Paul Henning was dead we could hook a generator up to him and power Atlanta as he spun in his grave. But seriously, if they do this they have to go all the way and do Greene Acres Reality TV too. Get some rich, clueless, preppy dorks from Yankee-land and plop 'em down in rural Tennessee. I think that would be much funnier. Anyways, whatever they do they had best keep the classic 'porkarina' incidental music common to all three Hooterville shows.
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I remember listening to an interview of Charlie Sheen some time ago. After describing a life which seems to consist of fast cars, loose women, and lots of parties, he was asked if he could survive on less money a year. IIRC, he indicated that he didn't think he could make it on $20,000 a year (as opposed to, say, 50 or 100 thousand).
Now, I've lived reasonably well off as little as $13,000 a year, and that's without a family to support. While I don't know the latest average income figures, I'm quite sure that there are many millions of Americans who live off $13,000 or less, so I believe it's possible.
So, how about a reality TV show in which people who are wealthy and/or famous are forced to live like real people?
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Try going to Rodeo drive with ripped jeans and a bad hat. They call security LIKE THAT! At least here in Sweden the classism is relegated to the very rich, who have no real effect on society. Bloody ABBA!
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But this, THIS is BEYOND THE FREAKING PALE! This total mindless asshole Ghen (what the hell were his parents thinking?) Maynard should be flayed alive and then smeared with tar and burned at a stake. Our socio-political champions of the poor and downtrodden are going to have a field day with this, and rightfully so. Are they going to focus on a white family, or is this going to be an equal opportunity lottery for the roles?
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So they automatically assume that a lower class family will be dumber than bricks and a bunch of hicks? Shouldn't a tv show like this be illegal? It's classist, and it's exploiting the poor people that will be willing to do the show so they can actually support their family
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Now there's a news story about some network doing a "Green Acres" reality show with some rich family (celebrity or not) trying to live as a poor, preferably Southern family. They should have Beverly/Green crossovers with the families battling for institution-sized cans of pork 'n' beans.
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