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FOX orders downsizing reality series in addition to the dating one.

POSTED BY: HAKEN
UPDATED: Thursday, April 9, 2009 00:40
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Wednesday, April 8, 2009 12:32 AM

HAKEN

Likes to mess with stuffs.


That's two new reality series for the Fall. I wonder what series are these reality series going to replace and on which night? Enough with the reality series already!

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"You're fired" -- but for real.

Fox has ordered a one-hour unscripted series that turns real-life company layoffs into a reality contest.

The show's working title is "Someone's Gotta Go." Employees are called to a meeting and informed there will be layoffs, but with a reality show twist: The staff will be allowed to determine who is fired.

The employees will have access to the company's internal information -- budgets, HR files, salaries, etc. -- to help make their decision.

It's the anti-"Apprentice": Instead of contestants vying for a dream job, they're fighting to keep the lousy one they already have.

Each episode will focus on one small company (less than 20 employees). The host is a business expert, not yet named, who also serves as a consultant to the companies featured on the show. There's no word yet when "Someone's" will air.

The show's concept (produced by Endemol) goes against the instincts of most broadcaster programmers, who are picking up shows that remind viewers of anything but the economy. "Escapism" and "comfort food" have been mandates as networks try to find programs that help viewers forget the recession. The order comes on the heels of Fox announcing "More to Love," a dating show for overweight contestants.



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Wednesday, April 8, 2009 1:12 AM

FREELANCERTEX


link?

i'll be very very sad if that goes through. i hate reality series.


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Wednesday, April 8, 2009 1:54 AM

FILLYGIRL

Operative: "Its worse than you know..." Mal: "It usually is."


I too hate reality shows. They aren't listening.


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...it's worse than you know...Operative
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Wednesday, April 8, 2009 2:13 AM

BROWNCOAT1

May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.


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Originally posted by Haken:
Enough with the reality series already!






Seriously! What the hell?!? That's why I avoid Fox like the freaking plague. Only two shows I watch there now are T:SCC & Dollhouse. Thinking about catching them both on Hulu just so I don't have to tune into the hated network.

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Wednesday, April 8, 2009 8:53 PM

SHINYGOODGUY


Reality series will go the way of the Game shows. These shows are losing steam and within a couple of years they will only be a memory.

Once this latest recession is over, they will be history.

SGG

Tawabawho?

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Wednesday, April 8, 2009 10:56 PM

FILLYGIRL

Operative: "Its worse than you know..." Mal: "It usually is."


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Originally posted by Shinygoodguy:
Reality series will go the way of the Game shows. These shows are losing steam and within a couple of years they will only be a memory.

Once this latest recession is over, they will be history.

SGG

Tawabawho?



God I hope your right!!!!



Chaplain of the 76th Independant Battalion


Do not bother dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup!


...it's worse than you know...Operative
...it usually is.....Mal

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Thursday, April 9, 2009 12:40 AM

MANWITHPEZ

Important people don't do field work.


I swear to God, we're one step away from "Battle Royale" and "The Running Man".

What's next? "America's Funniest Executions"?

Kaylee: "What's so damn important about being proper? It don't mean nothing out here in the black."
Simon: "It means more out here. It's all I have..."

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