Fox thinks small (New reality show: 'Littlest Groom')

NY Daily News ^ | Jan 28, 2004 | STEPHEN BATTAGLIO

[Koblenz]

Think you've seen it all with reality shows? Wait until Fox's "The Littlest Groom."

It's a reality show that's more than just a little, well, strange.

The wacky short-run series will have 12 female little people contestants competing for the affections of a 4-foot-5 bachelor.

But in the second episode, things take an "Average Joe"-like turn when women of normal stature show up to compete with the vertically challenged contestants.

In short, this show gives new meaning to the term "miniseries."

"The Littlest Groom," which airs Feb. 16 and 23 at 8 p.m., is another sign of how reality has become the main event in the highly competitive February sweeps period used by TV stations to set ad rates. The sweeps period gets underway Feb. 5.

[Koblenz]

OK, So how can the Man Show be funny talking about midgets, when Fox is actually having reality shows?

[martin_fierro]

Dennis Kucinich will soon be looking for work.

[Spok]

Will tossing be allowed?

[demnomo]

I think the groom is a midget, not a dwarf.

[Tijeras_Slim]

[3catsanadog]

So who is the host? Gary Coleman?

[Koblenz]

Dennis is also a bachelor. He'd be perfect for the show.

[joesnuffy]

Rome when it got tired of Gladiators and feeding Christians to animals or impaling them and setting them on fire...turned to midgets for entertainment...
Midget gladiators and midget wrestling .....now that's entertainment
Bread n Circuses

[Cicero]

Well, on the whole dwarf tossing is preferable to impaling people and setting them on fire, as I'm sure you agree.

[pepperhead]

OK, So how can the Man Show be funny talking about midgets, when Fox is actually having reality shows?

Is the Man Show really funny? Toilet humor, drunks and ta-ta's isn't my idea of funny.

[Phantom Lord]

The Man Show was funny with Jimmy Kimmel and Adam Corolla. The new hosts suck.

[Constitution Day]

Tom Daschle is deeply offended