Ugggghhhhh...Beverly Hillbillies as a Reality Show?

[The Finman]

Please Don't Do This CBS... [img]graemlins/twitch.gif[/img]

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The head of reality programming for CBS, Ghen Maynard, told the trade paper Variety, which broke word of the remake yesterday, that the network is looking for a family that's very different but "relatable" and whose members love one another.

MTV's reality series about Ozzy Osbourne and his family, who also live in Beverly Hills, became that network's most watched program ever this past television season, generating as many as 8 million viewers and sending network executives scrambling to develop more series in which cameras are focused on wacky real-life people.

"America tuned in to see Ozzy be a freak, but what happened is everybody fell in love with him," said Dub Cornett, who's among those developing CBS's "Beverly Hillbillies" reality remake.

It ended out being 'Ozzie and Harriet' more than anything else," said Cornett, a documentary filmmaker from Appalachia, Va., who refers to himself as an Appalachian American.

"The Beverly Hillbillies" starred well-known character actor Buddy Ebsen as Jed Clampett, patriarch of an Ozark family that struck it rich when oil began bubbling up on their property.

Ender said CBS isn't worried that the new "Beverly Hillbillies" will suffer the same fate.

Cornett, whose credits include documentaries about moonshine and hillbilly dancing, insists that America will end up laughing at Beverly Hills, not his Clampett family.

News of the "Beverly Hillbillies" redo did not sit well with some southerners who work in Hollywood, who did not wish to be identified for this article.

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[Simply Emo]

Originally posted by The Finman:
Please Don't Do This CBS... [img]graemlins/twitch.gif[/img]

It won't make a difference; it will sloth along at the quality of wholesome programming that CBS produces; {COUGH] SURVIVOR's One Thru 6 [COUGH]

[Sweetpea]

Eww.

Never did like the Beverly Hillbillies in the first place.

[Sweetpea]

There is only one SURVIVOR!



Survivor RULES!!
(so there, Quantum. [img]tongue.gif[/img] )

[The Finman]

I'm staying out of this. [img]graemlins/blank.gif[/img]

[Simply Emo]

Originally posted by Sweetpea:
There is only one SURVIVOR!



Survivor RULES!!
(so there, Quantum. [img]tongue.gif[/img] )

OMG: That is the most idiotic smilie I've seen in a while... Ewwww... And SweetPea; don't get me started on Survivor again...

[MN-Cobra]

A tussle with Sweetpea over Survivor is a tussle with me

Surivivor 2,3,4 all were great entertainment the first survivor was awful you knew he was gonna win from the get go.

I'm with you Sweetpea, and to quote a famous saying
"Cry HAVOC, and let slip the dogs of war!" [img]graemlins/tank.gif[/img]

Cobra [img]graemlins/Laughing.gif[/img]

[Sweetpea]

Originally posted by MN-Cobra:
A tussle with Sweetpea over Survivor is a tussle with me

Thanks for the backup, Cobra.

[The Finman]

Uhhhhhhhh...this is going from bad to worse. [img]graemlins/twitch.gif[/img]

<h2>Fox fishes for reality in "Green Acres" </h2>
While details are still being hammered out, the show will take a rich, upper-class family or individual -- possibly a celebrity -- and move them from a big city to a much more spartan existence, most likely in the South.

"I see a limo with a U-Haul attached," said "Green Acres" executive producer Jon Murray.

Indeed, depending on how the project shapes up over the next few weeks, it's possible Fox executives won't even want to use the name "Green Acres," fearing it could alienate more viewers than it would attract.

Except for the fish-out-of-water idea, "Our final concept may end up being real different (than 'Green Acres')," said Mary-Ellis Bunim, Murray's partner in Bunim-Murray.

At the same time, the realities of network marketing could make the idea of using the pre-sold "Green Acres" irresistible to Fox.

A key decision for the parties behind the Fox series will be whether to use a celeb family, a la "The Osbournes," or go with ordinary rich folks.

"If we go the celeb route, we get some added excitement," Murray said.

Full Story <font color="red"><u>Here</u></font>

I can already sense a Petticoat Junction Survivor Series being planned. [img]graemlins/twitch.gif[/img]

[Simply Emo]

FOX was the last network I actually back and appreciate; don't fail me now... Don't sink that low; so low as Survivor... :eek: