In a moment of weakness, I clicked USA Today online today. Please don't judge me. Anyhoo, thought this would be of interest to the FB.
Larry Namer, who co-founded E! Entertainment (originally as Movietime Channel), and Blake Mycoskie, a contestant from The Amazing Race, plan to launch Reality Central, a round-the-clock cable network focusing on the genre. Investors include winners of CBS' Amazing Race and Survivor.
This strikes me as a little late, kind of like trying to cash in on the refinancing boom now. FWIW, the full story is here:
http://www.usatoday.com/life/televis...-channel_x.htm
And just for Paigow, another USA Today story contains the following nails on a blackboard headline:
This old house ... PBS' Manor House adds a touch of class to reality TV.
Too bad Nicky or Paris Hilton didn't sign up for this show. I read that one of the young women who was cast as a scullery maid quit after a day or two because 18 hours of scrubbing pots was not her idea of a good reality-TV time.
