Joe Millionaire - secret is out!

[John Corn]

Gold Diggers Unite! (http://www.thefutoncritic.com/cgi/gofuton.cgi?action=newswire&id=4945)

Fox has sunk to a new level with their reality TV with this nonsense, it adds a new twist, and I can't wait to watch it.

[Steve Mehs]

Thanks John, I was looking for a link about the show, but couldn't find one. I heard about the show on the KTLA News.

I never watch reality TV, but I think I will watch this one. I love the idea!

[jrjcd]

this is great....smack the gold diggers where it smarts the most-the expectation of marrying into an easy ride!!!!lol

[DarrellP]

So what happens after he proposes? I wonder if lawsuits will fly?

[Martha Stewart]

Wait til Rupert launches "Outback in Uncle Tom's Cabin" starring Trent Lott in the lead role

[Jacob S]

But here is a twist for them. The woman will most likely say that she will not marry not because of the man not being rich, but for lying about it and deceiving her all along. Talk about a law suit for $1 million.

[DarrellP]

Here's the next new reality game show: Joe Six Pack. They take a real millionaire, make him up to be an average Joe making $20k/year, go through all the BS and see if someone wants to marry him, then they pull the plug and tell her he is really a millionaire. Now that's the way it ought to be done. Let's see who really has some scruples.

[Jacob S]

Lol, my my my, give them some more ideas. Or how about this, can the lucky gal pick out which one is the millionaire? None of them are.

Or how about all of them are but she is told 'sorry, I am not a millionaire' when she thought he was, and then she dumps him, and guess what? She is the loser, because he really is. Maybe that is the twist on this show, maybe he really is the millionaire and the joke is on us? lol. That is the true test and the network cannot get into trouble because he is actually a millionaire finding out if she just wants him for his money that he actually does have.

[DarrellP]

Now ABC has The Bachelorette coming in January. God, does this crap ever end?

[lee120]

i can't wait to watch it too

[Mike123abc]

I bet they had to sign 100 releases saying that in no way shape or form can they sue the show.

[John Corn]

I missed it last night, was it any good?

[bunkers]

Joe Millionaire was kind of good -- but the women seemed less polished and picked over than the women in the The Bachelor.

Part of it was the fact that they showed the women hanging out in sweats and all (without makeup?) before they met "Joe". Then, they put the 20 women in a room with 20 dresses (of various types and sizes) and let them scrap over who gets which dress to wear -- and some grabbed two and some had none, etc. So they were pretty nasty, or some of them were.

One shapely gal (Zora?) was featured (and she didn't fight to get a dress -- rather waited for the dust to clear) and ended up having a hard time getting into her dress -- but they had some tailors help her and she ended up looking quite good in the end.
She made the initial cut at the end of the show and is one of my early favorites, as she seemed to be less gold-digger "ish" than most.

Joe, seemed to be a nice enough guy, but was having a hard time with the lying portion and acting like a rich guy might. I think some will see through him after a while.

Hes a kind of big, handsome guy (a hunky superman, in his prime) with the narturally curly dark hair and pretty tall and deep voiced.

It might be interesting, but it seems that the show has the women compete more directly than the Bachelor did.

Also, another reality show this week was "The Reunion", where they picked about 18 guys and gals from the class of 1992 (at some high school) and brought them toghether in Hawaii and kind of lets them interact and flirt. Its kind of entertaining, if not painful to watch. The "Nerd" turned out to be a pretty big guy and not as nerdy as you would have expected. There are also "the flirt" (all guys still like?), the "popular guy" (the girls still like, despite the fact he is obviously unchanged and still a loser), and "the tall girl" (taken advantage of by popular guy already) and "the outcast" --- you get the picture.

[Six Pack\'s sister]

If Rupert buys DirecTV - we'll see 50 channels of "Reality Television"

[Jacob S]

Reality is not an act, thats the best part of it, it changes television from a big act to realism.

[Wedgecon]

I am so tired of so called reality shows, the only reason they put these things on is because they are cheap. These shows are about as "real" as pro wrestling.

Come on I bet FOX spent more than a million bucks just setting up the deception and training the loser to act like a rich person.

I say give me my "fake" tv any day...

[Kevin G]

These aren't reality shows - they're game shows. The Osbournes is the closest thing to a reality show.

And because these shows are so cheap we'll keep getting more until people have had their fill - which probably won't be for a while.

[djlong]

You're forgetting COPS :-) Unless you consider all those chases in cars and on foot more in the 'game show' category!

[Wyoming_Companion]

Originally posted by Wedgecon
I am so tired of so called reality shows, the only reason they put these things on is because they are cheap. These shows are about as "real" as pro wrestling.

I think they put them on because people watch them and therefore they can sell advertising to their sponsors. But I could be wrong about that.

I also heard that C.S.I. is fake!

Those people who investigate the crimes....just actors...not real investigators. I smell a lawsuit from some of those people they arrested!

I even saw that main C.S.I. guy in a movie once! You'd think the C.S.I. people would do a background check or something before they film these fakes!!

But I could be wrong. :lol:

[Kevin G]

Originally posted by Wyoming_Companion


I think they put them on because people watch them and therefore they can sell advertising to their sponsors. But I could be wrong about that.

I also heard that C.S.I. is fake!

Those people who investigate the crimes....just actors...not real investigators. I smell a lawsuit from some of those people they arrested!

I even saw that main C.S.I. guy in a movie once! You'd think the C.S.I. people would do a background check or something before they film these fakes!!

But I could be wrong. :lol:

The problem is that they are called 'reality' shows when they should be called game shows. Last I heard, CSI was categorized as a drama.

And while I don't care that people like these type of shows it does annoy me that they are called 'reality' and it really ticks me off when a network like Fox cancels a well-developed show like Firefly and fill their schedule with shows like 'Joe Millionaire'. I understand why; I just don't have to like it.

And I did forget about Cops - it's a reality show but it was on before the current 'wave' came out.

[raj2001]

Originally posted by Six Pack\'s sister
If Rupert buys DirecTV - we'll see 50 channels of "Reality Television"

let's hope he buys DISH instead!

[raj2001]

Originally posted by djlong
You're forgetting COPS :-) Unless you consider all those chases in cars and on foot more in the 'game show' category!

I used to consider cops to be a "documentary" lol.

[djlong]

Personally, I think looking at those losers on COPS (usually druggies) could be more effective than the other anti-drug ads. :-)

[Cyclone]

I have always considered COPS to be the "See the Jerry Springer guests at home" show.

[jvidalc]

As long as the camera's are visible to the subjects, they shouldn't be called reality shows because people act differently when they know they're being watched.

You want reality, use hidden cameras.

[George_F]

The ending surprised me abit. :)

[Mark Lamutt]

I think that Evan definitely made the right choice...

[Dgenx321]

Yep, the only problem is that he'll be splitting the cool million. :(

[raj2001]

Originally posted by jvidalc
As long as the camera's are visible to the subjects, they shouldn't be called reality shows because people act differently when they know they're being watched.

You want reality, use hidden cameras.

You said it. The only true reality show ever made is Candid Camera.

[Ric]

The upcoming Scare Tactics on SciFi looks pretty interesting for true reality, especially that someone is now suing because she 'suffered'.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/karablanc1.html