Friday, August 22, 2014

How Much Lower Can We Go

Survivor, the Bachelor, Big Brother, and other brain-rotting television shows--you'd think we've gone about as far as we could go, but now look what's coming:
If you thought Dating Naked, VH1’s boner-poppin’, trolltastic reality series where contestants do just that—and whose participant, Jesse Nizewitz, is suing the network for $10 million for showing a brief flash of her unpixelated crotch while she play-wrestled with a random nude dude on the beach (really)—was the lowest of the low, well, think again.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you: Sex Box.

On Thursday afternoon, The Hollywood Reporter reported that WE tv, a subsidiary of AMC Networks, has ordered the dating show Sex Box to series, picking up nine hour-long episodes. It will debut sometime in 2015. The show is an American adaptation of the UK Channel 4 series of the same name that sought to “reclaim sex from pornography” (their words) by having couples step into a giant box erected on the set, have sex inside of it, and then emerge for a post-coital chat about their seven minutes in heaven—or hell—with a panel of sexperts.
Foul.

8 comments:

maxutils said...

"Naked an Afraid" should also make us ashamed ...

PeggyU said...

They can show that on tv?!

Darren said...

I don't watch much tv anymore. If Marvel Agents of Shield returns this fall, I'll watch it. I'll also watch some 49er and/or Raider games on Sundays. With so little tv viewing you can understand why I don't have cable but rather get my tv over-the-air, as I have for decades :-)

allen (in Michigan) said...

PeggyU, I believe, from some of the promos, that they use digital blurring of the offending gentleman and lady parts.

Anonymous said...

Rome is burning and Nero plays golf.

maxutils said...

Allen, you're right ... which is why she has a lawsuit. Apparently, hey messed up once and failed t o blur.I don't get it ... if I wanted to see blurred genitals, I'd just download Japanese porn. Or so I hear.

maxutils said...

Do you remember the reality show recommended by Alec Baldwin on "30" Rock"? "MILF Island" ... it's getting close.

maxutils said...

And Darren, I know you don't do cable, but a free month of netflix binge watching "House of Cards," "True Detective," "Fargo (the series)" and Orange is the New Black would be 'not' money well spent.