I absolutely loved that show. And I generally hate most gay oriented tv.
No, but I generally don’t watch ANY of that “reality” crap.
As I’ve often said, it’s hard to be a sucker for that ‘survivor’ horsepuckey when one realizes that there’s a million dollar medical tent and a huge commissary hidden just over the hill. If they REALLY want to call it “Survivor” they should put the cameras on autopilot, evacuate the support crew, and bury a knife somewhere in the compound.
Maybe THEN I’d watch it.
I do gotta say, though, I really like the thing on cable, something like “Queer Eyes for Straight Guys”.
On Boy Meets Boy, something like 1/2 the roomates were straight, and you couldn’t tell who was who, and they had to ‘hide’ their straightness, nobody knew they were straight except them. It was a great concept, and they got to experience what it was like to be ‘in the closet’ (while trying to “win” James and get $25,000).
I don’t like Queer Eye (or most reality tv). It’s just…bizarre. The blonde man with all those lip implants bothers me, LOL. :roll:
so a bunch of straight guys are pretending to like this guy and want to dupe him into falling in love with them so they can win money? That’s cruel if you ask me.
Yes, it was cruel. The ‘leading man’, James, wasn’t aware that some of the guys were straight till near the end. He had to go on dates with each of them, get to know them, etc. He had his friend, Andra, there the whole time helping him choose, and when she found out some of the guys were straight she went crazy.
Most of the guys said that when they first started it, they didn’t realise how emotional and really drawn out it would be, and how attached they’d get to all the other people there, gay and straight. People really got hurt, they thought it would just be a game and that they were only doing it for money, or to dispell stereotypes.
And it was a shock when peopel found out XYZ person was straight, then they realised that he was still the same person and that nothing had really changed, it was awesome. It’s on the Bravo Channel (same channel as Queer Eye…). They’re still showing re-runs.
I want Girl Meets Girl now. But the cat’s out of the bag, so to speak, and the contestants would know some of them are straight so it probably wont’ happen.
Well they should’ve know it would go south pretty quickly. Things always get ugly when you start toying with people’s emotions like that, that much is just common sense. I wouldn’t even watch that show, and frankly the producers should be all be smacked for lying to and exploiting that James guy.
Hey Sam, how’s your cat? 
I’m just kidding. 
so far as I know she’s just fine. I haven’t seen her in a month, since I’m at school now. I miss my kitty 
I’m sorry. School sucks.
A TV show like that is SO sad, and on so many levels. I’m having a hard time believing this is real.
Cranberry, if you enjoyed a show like that, or made up the idea as a joke…I don’t know what to say. Dang, I’m rarely stuck for words. Get help.
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LOL! 
That horror of a television program is not in my lexicon. It is as bad as the Temptation Island series. I am glad to see other people here have the same opinion.
I am sure people think it is funny to deliberately inflict emotional suffering on someone because if they are gay they must not have feelings anyway.
How can they call it reality TV? Once a person knows they are being watched they will act differently, thus the ‘reality’ is lost before it begins.
I can’t believe anyone watches those shows. I saw 5 min of Big Brother once and was bored stiff (oh, gee, people hanging at the house–I do that). I saw some of a Bachelor episode and wondered why 25 gorgeous, educated, professional women would humiliate themselves and backstab each other over a guy when they could get anyone they want. Of course, they probably want acting careers and TV exposure, I can only guess. Also, no one’s ever actually gotten married after being the chosen one on those shows.
I did like the show on life in a turn-of-the-century British mansion that PBS aired. It depicted the family and those who chose to work as part of the staff, as well as the social mores of the time. It was the follow-up to the one they did where a family lived like pioneers that I didn’t get to see.
The only other reality show I watch is America’s Funniest Videos, with my 6-year-old.
Bottom line for me: it has to not be mean, snotty, or conniving. I refuse to watch shows where people get voted off or that involve intentional cruelty as apparently Boy Meets Boy does.
It’s supply and demand–if people watch that crap, network execs will keep making it.
It’s a widely held belief in the UK, and I mean no insult to anyone here, that many Americans would do almost anything to get on TV. The Jerry Springer Show couldn’t survive without them, bless their cotton socks.
I agree that reality TV is about as interesting as watching paint dry, and I think after 4 summers of Big Brother, the rest of the UK are starting to wake up to the same idea.
Can’t say that I blame them for that belief; all you have to do is take a look at the usual fare offered up. These days on cable, even the Cooking Channel has camera-in-your-face “reality” competitions. Blech. People must really love window-peeking, or the broadcasting poohbahs have been led to think so.
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It’s a widely held belief in the UK, and I mean no insult to anyone here, that many Americans would do almost anything to get on TV. The Jerry Springer Show couldn’t survive without them, bless their cotton socks.I agree that reality TV is about as interesting as watching paint dry, and I think after 4 summers of Big Brother, the rest of the UK are starting to wake up to the same idea.
Actually, reality TV is a covert eugenics experiment run by a super top secret agency of the federal government. The way it works is that every person who appears on one of these shows is druged and secretly sterilized during the filming of the program. Although this is a new program using the reality programs Jerry Springer participants have been sterilized from the beginning. The big problem is that there are so many “reality TV types” in the USA that there is no way, as yet, to get to them all before they breed. Experts are working on this issue.
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It’s a widely held belief in the UK, and I mean no insult to anyone here, that many Americans would do almost anything to get on TV. The Jerry Springer Show couldn’t survive without them, bless their cotton socks.
No offense taken on my part–I’ve often wondered if I was the only American who had no desire to be on TV, much less air my dirty laundry on a talk show. I’ve never understood that desire either. I like my privacy. I was brought up to mind your own business (unless someone asks your opinion or assistance) and take care of your own, but apparently that priority has gone by the wayside. Also, my life is pretty humdrum, and I have no clue why anyone would be interested enough in it (and I like it this way)!
My wife actually likes to watch these things on occasion - for her it has the same horrible attraction as watching a train wreck. She’s firmly convinced that volunteering to appear on one them should be sufficient grounds, in and of itself, to commit you to a mental institution.
We both agree that getting an invitation to appear on one of them, out of the blue, counts as Very Bad News. To the point that if you do get one your best course may be to grab all your cash and buy a ticket to Brazil.
I didn’t like the show solely becuse it was reality TV (I’ve also watched The Real World since I was 8 or 9), I watched it because the straight guys had to be in the closet (although what they had at stake [$25,000] was much lower than what gay people often have at stake [their homes, jobs, family]), and I thought that was a really novel idea that worked, and I, for one, couldn’t -not- watch. But I guess I am the target demographic..
I have seen my neighbors on Jerry Springer.
Oh, I don’t know, Martin. As I recall, it was the Swedes who first thought up Survivior, and that quiz show where a nasty deadpan host encourages a bunch of less-than brilliant contestants to backstab each other on a bunch of silly questions came from you folks.