We obviously love Michael Davies, Embassy Row, and mostly everything they do, but there are just some shows that I don’t look forward to or can’t see being a big hit. We’ve been on a row with stuff like Grand Slam, Power of 10, and World Series of Pop Culture. Well they can’t all be winners, can they? Variety is reporting that Michael Davies of Embassy Row and Who Wants to be a Millionaire? is preparing a show called World’s Strongest Celebrity. Guess what they do. The company who makes World’s Strongest Man, IMG, is helping to develop the show with Davies, though no deal has been made. Networks are said to be interested, however.
Is this really what we’ve come to? Has the revival of American Gladiators been that much of a hit that we need a bunch of stunt/action shows? I mean two celebrity circus series have just been announced and now this? With one big and fun hit there are always some bizarre spin-offs which just do not work. We saw that with Set For Life and Identity. Now we’re in the American Gladiators clone zone.
5 Responses
David Palomares
1January 22nd, 2008 at 7:40 pm
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, DON’T BRING BACK BATTLEDOME!!!
Mike
2January 22nd, 2008 at 9:15 pm
Can we just give the damn award to Carol Channing and move on with our lives?
Neville
3January 22nd, 2008 at 11:57 pm
You know what I’d like to see? “Are You Smarter than a Celebrity?” Pretty much 1 vs. 100, but with a smaller and entirely celebrity opposition (not 100, of course!) That sounds like a good time to me. I don’t need Neil Patrick Harris trying to pull a school bus 100 ft.
David Howell
4January 23rd, 2008 at 7:19 am
This isn’t April 1 is it?
American TV just parodied itself with this one.
Measles!
5January 23rd, 2008 at 1:09 pm
As a fan of these World’s Strongest Man competitions, I will simply say this…
LEAVE THE STRENGTH TO THE STRONGMEN. Don’t muck it up with idiot Z-list celebrities.
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