[SMGFan]

What next Naked Pawn Stars on History Channel?

[IncPen]

More evidence of desperate media circling the drain while chronicling the decline of society.

Yet when PBS** runs a Ken Burns documentary on the National Parks or Baseball or the Civil War, the ratings are through the roof.

Why is it so hard?

 

_{**It pains me to quote this example}

[mikrofon]

Each close-ended episode will feature a man and a woman as they each date two different, naked suitors and each other

Wouldn't that be "clothes-ended" ??

[GeronL]

How low can they go?

[upchuck]

Lord, quickly come.

[pgyanke]

There’s naked dining, naked swimming, naked horseback riding and even naked elimination ceremonies...

Wait... no naked trampoline? Must be saving it for sweeps week...

[MuttTheHoople]

[AZLiberty]

Is a frank display of emotion a plus or a minus in that situation?

[Windflier]

Idioticus maximus...

[Larry Lucido]

Remember, there is good naked and bad naked.

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

People watch this crap?

[moviefan8]

There is a television show that is called Married at First Sight. The bride and groom never met each other until they are married.

I think the dating naked show tops that.

It seems like the naked dating show should be on other channel.

[RightGeek]

Even “The Network” did not anticipate we could sink this low. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_%28film%29

[gaijin]

People always groan that reality TV is all about the Low Information Voters. While IQ’s do seem to be diving for the deck, the primary driving force behind this is Controlling Costs —the number of channels has exploded, heavily fracturing audiences.

With Reality TV you pay way, waaaay less on writers, actors and post-production.

Why the naked aspect?

Because now there is a lot of reality TV competitors, and you have to get an angle to set you apart:

When people are good they are good in so very many different ways, but when they are bad they are bad in very, very similar ways:

PEOPLE LIKE NAKED.

As viewership moves more and more to the web, totally abandoning TV, these nakeders will have to get it on, at the end, or something.

Or maybe they’ll have to go through the jungle naked together, AND THEN STOMP RODENTS.

You get the drift...

[DouglasKC]

There is no doubt that western civilization long ago passed it’s peak and is on rapid decline and gaining speed every moment.

[a fool in paradise]

Appropriately the news item comes from the Ew website.

[JustTheTruth]

Living in the Porn Generation. Or was that Sodom and Gomorrah II?

[LadyDoc]

Tropical dates in the buff?

Aside from mosquitoes, sandfleas, spiders, jellyfish, and sunburnt nipples, what could go wrong?

[NRA1995]

The Bret Michaels “Rock Of Love” show dallied around the edges of fully naked dating activities. I’d hoped people had had enough when that show died.