Does anybody remember "Playhouse 90"....It was a tv show on CBS a long time ago somewhere between the discovery of fire and George Washington crossing the Delaware......what it was was superb acting by known actors at the time..... performing classic plays LIVE.....so if an actor flubbed a line or a prop malfunctioned....the camera went in like a barracuda hungry for its first meal of the day.....in other words....no mistakes no retakes.....a reality show that was really a reality show.....quite unlike what we have today....
TV has had a nervous breakdown and the symptoms are reality shows...for ex..."Jersey Shore"......as an Italian American I am appalled that this is what the rest of the world sees as our reality......in my family....of educated, involved persons....there is no more room for a Snooki than there is for Al Capone.....I think they should move this show to the Discovery channel or better yet Animal Planet as the fighting and incessant mating makes baboons and their like look much higher on the evolutionary scale. And can you imagine the amount of editing that must go on ??? " Listen, Snooki, when you belted Sammi, your ass was in the way,,,,could you do that again so we can get your left side??""
Then there is "Survivor".......I mean I have enough trouble getting through a day sometimes..with bills, too many pounds on the scale, worries about my kids, noisy neighbors, car trouble, finding a parking space in the snow and the other vagaries of human existence to worry about how a group of people is going to get through the day sharing one bug. Who cares!!???
Let's try for another......all the cooking show competitions...."Cake Off", "Cupcake Wars", "Top Chef", " Iron Chef"...God help us!!! Pretty soon there will be a show to see who can boil water the fastest. I mean who couldn't make an eight course meal in thirty minutes to include shopping for the ingredients.. setting up, cursing out your competitor , prep time for veggies, sabatoging everyone by hiding the spice rack , and of course having your totally bizarre one- of- a- kind wedding cake collapse because the ramrods you stuck in between the fondant and the sugar balls just collapsed.!!
And what about "The Bachelor".....last night I was channel surfing and saw that they had a bachelor who had rejected both women at the end of a previous show return for a second chance....now granted , as he said ,' three years of therapy can make a difference', but to see one of the women on this current show step out of the car and tell him(regarding his previous fiasco on the bachelor) " I have something for you from all the women of America" and then slap him was mind boggling.....but then again that is something I think we all feel like doing to the program directors of these incessant reality shows.
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