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Bad economy good for reality shows

by Bob Sassone, posted Apr 8th 2009 9:07AM

FOXSomething tells me that this reality show will cause a little bit of controversy.

Endemol, the people who bring you Big Brother and other shows, has another reality show in the works titled Someone's Gotta Go. It will feature 10 contestants who live together in a house (a la Big Brother and The Real World), but there's one catch: there's no bathroom! The one who can hold things in the longest wins $500,000 and a year's supply of bathroom tissue.

Well, OK, that's not the premise, but it's actually not as insulting and embarrassing as the actual premise of the show. Someone's Gotta Go will feature employees of a real company who give a pay cut to a fellow employee and vote out a fellow employee at the end of each show. Please note that these are real employees at a real company who are really going to lose their jobs, not to mention have their personal details revealed on national television.

The "fun" will air on FOX.

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Riley Freeman

terrible show. why cant they just put more moment of truth. i dont even get why that show is on hiatus so long wasnt it getting huge ratings?

April 08 2009 at 6:45 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jennifer

Why would anyone want to watch this on television when they are living it every single day? We want escapism, dammit.

April 08 2009 at 5:27 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
CParis

Big prediction - this show will go nowhere. No real company is going to want to expose themselves to the potential employee lawsuits from exposing private HR files to non-qualified employees and the viewing public.

April 08 2009 at 3:14 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
ac

Whoever watches this should have their reproductive organs removed to ensure they dont spawn another generation of people stupid enough crap like this. Whenever I think Ive heard the dumbest idea for a reality show they come up with another one. To make it worse this will probably get better ratings than all the good bubble shows out there like Chuck or Dollhouse.

Ok rant over.

April 08 2009 at 11:53 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
snowy2004

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Could we just let FOX die and ship House, Fringe, Bones, 24 and the Saturday animated shows to the other networks?

I'm sure Humanity will thank us.

April 08 2009 at 9:54 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply

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