Lady or a Tramp: Television’s Next Dumb Reality Series
Donald Trump Continues His Quest to Make the Tube Even More Vapid
Wasn’t/Isn’t The Apprentice bad enough? The Don is back—or should I say “still won’t go away”—with a brand new inane reality show to decimate the brain cells of even the staunchest TV watchers. The title of the Fox vehicle in development under the executive-producing auspices of real-estate tycoon Donald Trump is Lady or a Tramp, and the premise revolves around so-called party girls (that is, the titular tramps, of course) who are transformed into so-called debutantes (translation: uptight females who think they’re better and more important than they actually are) after being sent to charm school. Charm school? Are there really such things around anymore?
What’s worse, this ridiculously ridiculous concept is a rip-off, er, adaptation of some British reality series called Ladette to Lady, which features the travails of yet more girls who learn “how to go from throwing a kegger to throwing a tea party,” as a Fox bigwig named Greg Goldman puts it (and you just know that there’s a bunch of men behind this incredibly bad idea, including Bruce Toms of Nanny 911 and Trump laborer Andy Litinsky, simply because women realize how insulting it is … I hope). According to Variety, if this monstrosity gets approved by network executives, it could be unleashed upon the unsuspecting and unprotected populace as early as next midseason. Noooooo!!!
Other than sounding like a perfect project for former wild-child Miss USA Tara Conner, there’s absolutely nothing worthwhile about this proposed series. I respectfully suggest that Trump start focusing his TV aspirations on something more productive, like, say, a reality series in which we get to watch him give away large chunks of his abundant money to people who really need it, such as underprivileged children who want to attend better schools, perhaps, or disabled war veterans unable to find decent employment now that they’re back in the United States. But party girls and debutantes? I only pray that, if greenlit, this program is met with a resounding diss from viewers who stay away in droves.
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He could have a winner with an audience fed up with the Hilton and Lohan shows
You are so right, davidLBC, but I just hope the show doesn’t catch on so the public can be spared one more worthless reality series. If there were some kind of point, it wouldn’t irk me. Yet, the focus on classifying women as either good or bad–which we can be sure will be accompanied by lots of embarrassing footage–just rubs me the wrong way. Enough with these kinds of shows.