So we already knew Kelsey Grammer was looking to get into the reality TV game, but now we find that his plans are for this show are pretty obnoxious. Apparently, he’s looking to base the show on three single female New Yorkers who created the website, ThatsNotOkayNY.com. It’s like OverheardinNewYork.com but meaner and more exploitive.
We really thought we’d seen it all when CBS turned the Shit My Dad Says Twitter account into a show starring William Shatner, and when it (unsurprisingly) turned out to be terrible we continued to hope it would be the last TV show or movie to come from a few silly internet ideas. We knew we’d be wrong and we were. But really, Mr. Grammer? I love making fun of people on the internet (check out anything I’ve ever written about Charlie Sheen or Justin Bieber), but there’s a difference between reading a few jokey things on the internet and watching a TV show about three negative nellies putting together a website that solely consists of things like, “Putting fries on your burger to save time. Eating is not a timed event, fatty. TNO,” (TNO = That’s Not Okay) or “Using your kid’s picture as your Facebook photo because you think the world adores your kid when in reality it’s to hide the fact that you never lost the baby weight. And your kid is like 7. TNO.”
Do we really want to see a half hour (or God forbid, an hour) of television devoted to three women making tons of cash by running around the city pointing out why everyone else is so awful? This might be mildly entertaining while you’re killing time on your iPhone because your date is 20 minutes late, but this is not something I want to watch on television. This really is a new low. Not only is scripted television taking pointers from half-baked web ideas, but now reality television (which is already half-baked) is picking up the trend? There is only one word for all of this: BLERG. (To quote the great Liz Lemon.) This is awful. There, I said it.
Source: TMZ
