Ten announces ‘bold, irreverent, fresh, innovative and noisy’ reality series
Ten has announced four new reality and contestant shows slated for 2012.
The shows include I Will Survive: Priscilla, Everybody Dance Now, Come Date With Me and Don’t Tell The Bride which Ten believe are the “perfect mix of shiny floor shows, human drama and storytelling”.
Produced by FremantleMedia Australia, I Will Survive: Priscilla will be aims to find Australia’s next singer/dancer/actor destined for Broadway.
Contestants will travel from Sydney to Alice Springs on the famous Priscilla bus performing and competiting in outback Australia.
All of the above shows will dissappear into the backwater of the 10 networks digital Chanel’s.I have no problems with creative and entertaining reality TV so I do not have an axe to grind railing against the continued onslaught this style of programming but put simply these are just bad ideas.
Has the traditional male viewer been forgotten? Dancing, weddings, Broadway, dating, seems all these new shows are typically female orientated.
Come Date With Me…maybe a starter, though feels a little me-too and late.
I Will Survive will be relegated to pages of history by EP 3. What a dud! A reality show about a musical is at best something for Ovation, not a FTA network that purports to be the home of 16-29 viewers. Another Fremantle dud. Maybe they should have added some weightloss elements from their last smash original hit Excess Baggage.
What a cavalcade of duds!! Awful, absolutely awful. I predict the Priscilla show will be gone by Ep. 4. As for the dancing one, it sounds idiotic and didn’t Ten can So You Think You Can Dance for poor ratings? Come Date With Me has already been done by Seven, it’s called Dinner Date and the Bridezilla program sounds horrendous, can’t see it lasting.
@a 8:01am… If you put it like that, I’m not even sure it seems targeted to women. Seems to me the target audience would have to be seriously ‘camp’ to stomach this line-up… Not that there’s anything wrong with that, I guess!