We put our ideas of what might make good reality TV out there, and asked you to submit yours. Here are some of your suggestions:
The Marie Osmond Channel
She’s (a bit) prettier than Donny and more guys will be inclined
to watch. She’s so “clean,” women won’t find her threatening…
–John E.T. Blanchard
Sorta sick, but just what America craves. Take a group of Death Row inmates and play it like survivor, except the viewers get to vote people off (to the chair). The winner gets his punishment converted to a life sentence rather than execution.
–Eric Sullivan
Simply, the show is called Good Felons. Real wiseguys, sitting around social clubs, restaurants, usual mob hangouts talking about their “family,” friends, the history of their lives. The real deal, no wanna-bes. I have already shot 8 hours worth.
–Wendy Shear
How about AMERICAN IDIOT? I think that everyday each one of us comes into contact with a variety of, shall we say, idiots. The kind of people that make you wonder, how do they make it through the day. Imagine an hour of idiots trying to drive an SUV, talk on a cell phone, drink a cup of coffee, put on lipstick, comb their hair, and take off their jacket, ALL AT THE SAME TIME. During sweeps, the network could even run a special episode of “CELEBRITY IDIOTS.” I would tune in, wouldn’t you? Heck, I might even turn on my VCR and tape the darn thing.
–Brian Vaci, Myrtle Beach, SC
My reality show would be based in New York City, South Bronx Housing Project. You take 12 people from well-to-do or rich family backgrounds, persons of all races and cultures, and let them live in South Bronx Housing project for 30 days. They will mix with the people who live there, shop in the same supermarkets and bodegas with the people of that neighborhood. Basically dealing with the hardships, the ups and downs, the dangers, the lack of comfort and communicating with people that they would not necessarily communicate with because of the protection of their “cushy” neighborhoods. It’s political, it’s daring, it’s funny and it is definitely something would show a lot people what life is really about on the “other side.”
–Beryl D. Robinson
Executive Education
Take rich, wealthy, successful executives (who spend vast quantites of time complaining about the educational system) and give them a class schedule in an urban, public school. They get to choose the subject they will teach on an otherwise regular (‘normal’) school day. The one that has not run screaming from the classroom by the end of the day can claim “winner” status.
–Jennifer Parson, Chemistry & Physics Teacher/Drama Coach/Academic Decathlon Coach/Department Chair, A. Maceo Smith High School, Dallas, Texas
I think they should make a reality show of exactly what the famous females in Hollywood do and how they really eat to look the way they do. From not wearing any makeup to the transformation created from a professional makeup artist (fake eyebrows, false eyelashes, the add-ons), using expensive cosmetics and coloring their hair, etc., so young girls can really see that they don’t just look that way by chance. They can see the reality being the pampering these people get that ordinary people do not have, the way these women truly eat or don’t eat or eat unhealthily to stay looking the way they do.
–Kevin Fox
How about a show that is really real. Have a family or a couple or a single person trying to make it on $15,000 a year. Someone without health insurance or bank accounts or a rich family. Someone who knows the world does not owe them anything and that life is unfair and hard sometimes. Show that person get up every day and go to work. Show that person improvise with life’s little pleasures, like dinner parties at home that consist of a BBQ and some close real friends instead of a dance club or bar. Show that person have real conversations with their friends about how they can support each other. I want to see real women try to love and be loved in a world where your size is your passport and the beautiful person you are inside does not mean a thing.
–Deanna Craft
I think that my family shoud have a reality TV show! I am telling you the ratings will be so high it would make more money then the Osbornes!! We have two two homes, one in Massachusetts and a summer home in Wells Beach, Maine. When school is over we live up in Maine for the summer and all I do all day is hang out with my friends all day tell like 11 p.m. I work at an arcade in the summer and it can get to be fun and not so fun. The show could be called The Hansons!! I am telling you it would make a lot of $$$$!
–Jeremy Hanson
Survivor Baghdad
Take 20 Americans, put “Screw Saddam” T-shirts on them and airdrop them into downtown Baghdad, Iraq. Survivor with a twist. ALL survivors get $1,000,000! They would deserve it!
–Eddie Minton
I think a reality show like the game Clue would be pretty cool for all those mystery buffs out there. I am sure if you got enough creative minds together, they could come up with some great twists to the show. If anyone ever decides to try to put this idea into action, I will be one of the firsts to sign up. I think reality TV is great, and a lot of fun. Keep the great ideas coming.
–Darci Ann
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