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NBC Renews Three Reality Freshmen: THE MARRIAGE REF, MINUTE TO WIN IT And WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE!!
I am – Hercules!!
NBC is helping to fill the primetime vacuum left by “The Jay Leno Show” with loads of reality.
In addition to bringing back both celebrity and regular editions of “The Apprentice” next season, the network announced Monday it is giving second seasons to a trio of reality freshmen: “The Marriage Ref,” “Minute To Win It” and “Who Do You Think You Are.”
None is what what you’d call a blockbuster, but “Marriage Ref” is doing way better than “Leno” was and (at the moment at least) better than the last new episodes of far more expensive shows like “Chuck” and “Heroes.”
"The Biggest Loser," NBC's biggest winner among reality shows, will be back next season as well of course.
Find all of James Hibberd’s Hollywood Reporter story on the matter here.
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But I must admit, I gave amazing race a shot and actually enjoyed it. But beyond that, I cannot sit through even a minute of any other reality TV.
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..but with reality shows, not "dark comedies"(Galifinakis)
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Well, I am eating a sandwich.
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Tell me how to translate your family success to my own life, please.
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I would not eat pizza.
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.. would outperform Leno at 10pm.
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but heck, nobody's forcing me to come here and read about it.Any news about entertainment programming?
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Line up in that there shower room, I'd greatly appreciate it. No, no...the door is locked for your protection.
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You go and show the world that you're now willing to replace garbage Leno with even more garbage. Pretty soon WWE RAW will be beating the entire NBC network.
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...when *do* we hear about the fate of Heroes?
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Doesn't anyone realize that these shows are the future? Embrace it. You have no other choice. The rolling armageddon that's barelling over every single drama/comedy/script show this year should show you the truth. This is the only thing that will be left soon enough. What you all dont realize is movies are going in this direction next. Think of a future where they make unscripted "youtube" style movies that are just collections of 60 twominute sketches. It's coming SOON.
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Apr 05, 2010 11:12:37 PM CDT
The Rapture has happened as we are the ones left behind
by yotzvonfrelnik
It's got to be some kind of cosmic punishment. That's the only explanation I can come up with for something like The Marriage Ref being given more life. Everyone I talk to loathes it.
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With that one even the commercials are painful.
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fuck you NBC and fuck you jay leno
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Apr 05, 2010 11:43:04 PM CDT
You could the that The Marriage Ref was pure fucking shit...
by catvutt
When people on the East Coast were actually upset and wanted to see the rest of the Canadian Olympics Closing Ceremonies instead of the premiere.
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Stooooopid no edit fucking forum.
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I had no idea it existed. I ran across it, and I hate Guy Fieri, so I had to shout at his image on the screen. Then I saw the show's hook - a blonde with big tits hoping around the stage.
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Conan is fucked over, Leno gets The Tonight Show back, and these shit shows get renewed. FUCK YOU NBC!!! FUCK YOU ZUCKER!!
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in their programming department working for the cable company, trying to drive NBC's price down so they can buy it on the cheap. I'll still watch any episode of marriage ref that has Larry David on it, no matter how much it pains me to say it.
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Really NBC?! Who the fuck-word is running NBC? That network is run by the biggest retards and assholes in television history.
PS - Leno can suck it. -
Where is the Lost talkback?
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i hope he gets shot.
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Aside from the host being as funny as a burning orphanage. It's this : The panel rapidly went from a-listers to z-listers who are using it as an audition reel.In the first few episodes, it was genuinely funny to see some big time celebs looking at the fucked up quirks of the ordinary people. It was a hell of a wake up call, because you don't picture Seinfeld or Larry David ever watching Maury or Springer or whatever.Last episode had Kirstie Alley on the panel, when by all rights she should have been on the Maury side of the screen. Except she doesn't have a husband.That woman is the Hollywood version of a bag lady, with 50 cats. Except she has lizards instead of cats.Jimmy Kimmel also gurned his way trying to do bits, trying to link anything he saw on screen to a celebrity he could do an impression of. It was pathetic.To go from Ricky Gervais "This is the weirdest show I've ever been on" to Jimmy Kimmel "LOVE ME LOVE ME! SOMEONE GIVE ME A JOB!" in the space of a few weeks, is just astonishing.
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and it gets better ratings. NBC used to have the best dramas and comedies on the air. Not, it's hope is in renewing the worst reality shows
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That's what I'd like to know.
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where Seinfeld tutors people how to seduce other people's spouses?
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Where is?
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This is just more proof that the "average TV viewer" is a complete retard. When shows like The Marriage Ref have more people watching than shows like Chuck or Dollhouse, Idiocracy's world is coming sooner than we thought.
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Will it be This Way for The Next Decade?!
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Herc, do you have Leno's ratings since his return? I'd like to see how he is doing, and how it compared to Conando...who we're trying to get to Montreal to do his stage show.
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I'm sure Jimmy Kimmel is in some desperate need of a job these days.
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And online views factor into a shows ratings? Because you gotta figure that is taking away from a lot of show. More and more people now would rather wait to watch whole seasons of drama shows on DVD or a couple episodes at a time on line. Where as reality garbage needs to be digested right away before it goes bad. Same with terrible sitcoms because I'm pretty sure if you ever watched two episodes of 2 and a Half Men back to back you'd probably realize how terrible it really is.
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Maybe its getting half-decent ratings...but honestly, I know studios count on DVD sales to keep profits up on a lot of shows, they really count on that. Will anyone actually pay 20-30 bucks for a season of the marriage ref? Honestly? Maybe thats more important only to expensive, scripted dramas with big casts and budgets, while reality tv is obviously so cheap it might not matter...but I can't see people thinking they need to own episodes of the marriage ref or something. thats just mindless.
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No no no. I'm talking about shows like Chuck or Heroes where studios talk about how shitty the ratings are. What are their DVD and online views like? Thats what I'm saying about TV, people watch reality junk on TV because they know they can save the good stuff for DVD, and like you said no one is going to buy The BEST OF The Marriage Ref Clips on Blu Ray (but I bet it'll get made).
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Even worse, it says NBC plans on airing TWO versions of The Apprentice next season, a celebrity and a regular one. They're currently running The Apprentice at two hours an episode every week. Essentially, this could mean that versions of The Apprentice could be filling almost as much primetime airtime per week as Leno's show did. The Apprentice should have died like, what, six years ago? Seriously, NBC is one step away from a show called "Watching Paint Dry."
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If you're going to rant about how awful you think someone is, you should get their name right. It was Jimmy Fallon, not Jimmy Kimmel.
Maybe I'm approaching that show from a different angle, b/c I know its ridiculous, the problems people are fighting over are small and some of the celeb combinations are rather odd. I have yet to see any Z list celebs. Hell, not even D list. I have no clue what you're talking about there. -
He pretty much ensured a 4th season for Chuck.
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Before NBC greenlights the "Ow! My Balls!" series and creates Brawndo as a corporate sponsor. The world of Idiocracy gets closer to reality every day.
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Agreed. I think it's a downward spiral to the LCD and the LCD is MUCH lower than you think... "Ow! My Balls!" will be considered art compared to where all this is going. Fuck, even the Syfy channel has a SHIT-TON of reality shows in the pipeline... one of them a COOKING SHOW and one a FENG-SHUI show... depressing.
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Television Without Pity had a contest called TV Big Shot where you where given a budget and programmed your own network based on the shows available that season.
I came to the game about a month after the start of the fall TV season. I still finished in the top five percent.
How did I do it. Instead of picking shows I liked I picked the lowest common denominator shit I could find.
The average viewer of network TV is a knuckle dragger.
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