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Fox fishes for reality in "Green Acres"
Reuters/Variety ^ | Friday, Aug. 30, 2002 | Josef Adalian

Posted on 08/30/2002 7:16:51 AM PDT by Darth Sidious

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First they tell us they're doing this to "Beverly Hillbillies", now this.

There is no God.

1 posted on 08/30/2002 7:16:51 AM PDT by Darth Sidious
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To: Darth Sidious
Good morning, bro -- great to see ya.
2 posted on 08/30/2002 7:17:50 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
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To: JohnHuang2
And you, dear brother :-)
3 posted on 08/30/2002 7:19:06 AM PDT by Darth Sidious
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To: lowbridge; Rebelbase
More tripe from the Vast Wasteland(tm)
4 posted on 08/30/2002 7:21:17 AM PDT by Darth Sidious
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I thought it was Clinton who was amazed by the scanner, or was that a ATM machine he didn't know how to use?
5 posted on 08/30/2002 7:21:54 AM PDT by SternTrek
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To: Darth Sidious
I thought we already had The Osbournes.
6 posted on 08/30/2002 7:27:17 AM PDT by Catspaw
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You know what would be great - take Ted Kennedy or Hillary and move them to a nice rural setting, say Elohim City or somewhere in northern Idaho.
7 posted on 08/30/2002 7:33:56 AM PDT by Dakmar
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The networks need to take a lesson from PBS when it comes to reality shows. What was the name of it -- Frontier House? That was good reality TV.
8 posted on 08/30/2002 7:34:57 AM PDT by alnick
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I'm thinking more like Muleshoe or Bovina Texas.
9 posted on 08/30/2002 7:38:48 AM PDT by dtel
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That would be better. Once Ted and Hillary gave up their PC act they would fit right in the places I mentioned.
10 posted on 08/30/2002 7:41:55 AM PDT by Dakmar
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To: Darth Sidious
Hollywood culture adds another layer of grease to the rails.
11 posted on 08/30/2002 7:56:42 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Darth Sidious
Ole Okie Prediction: Dead on Arrival.

All both of them.

Real desperation hath set in.

12 posted on 08/30/2002 8:07:17 AM PDT by Ole Okie
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To: Darth Sidious
The Bush scanner story is an urban legend. He was examining a new type of scanner at a convention that had not been released yet. It could scan around corners, and Bush remarked he'd never seen that. Which was logical, since that was a prototype.

Second, if you took everyone's money and possessions away, eventually, most of the people that made it on their own would wind up back at the top.

13 posted on 08/30/2002 8:12:33 AM PDT by Koblenz
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What gets me is, not just the desecration of so many wonderful classic tv series, but how the tv networks are constantly ripping each other off. It used to be tv talk shows. Now we're getting flooded with "reality" tv series.

TV Exec: "Hey, I got an idea! Let's rip off their idea and cash in on it!"

Havent they got an original idea between all of them?

Thank God for cable tv so that one can watch the real classics.

14 posted on 08/30/2002 8:26:05 AM PDT by lowbridge
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To: Darth Sidious
Anybody see the Max Baer interview on FOX News last night? He suggested doing this. He's also made a fortune on Beverly Hillbillies spinoffs.

He said "Maybe Jethro wasn't so dumb after all."

15 posted on 08/30/2002 8:31:07 AM PDT by Cyber Liberty
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take Ted Kennedy or Hillary and move them to a nice rural setting, say Elohim City or somewhere in northern Idaho...

Hey hey hey HEY HEY! You got sumptin' against Northern Idaho?

Those of us who live in small towns and rural areas find this kind of condescension infuriating. This is one principal reason for the blue/red nation dichotomy ("oh, listen, dear, the hick used a big word, isn't that cute?") and one reason a lot of city boys find out the hard way not to pee on a eee-lectric fence...

16 posted on 08/30/2002 8:36:09 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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I have a reality show idea...

Have our congressmen/women live under the laws they create.

Wouldn't that be a hoot!
17 posted on 08/30/2002 8:37:12 AM PDT by Tex-Con-Man
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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.

As if the south were somehow devoid of wealthy, obnoxious socialites. Yeah, right.

18 posted on 08/30/2002 8:38:19 AM PDT by southern rock
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To: Billthedrill
Take it easy, I was making a reference to a very specific location in northern Idaho, long known as a hang out for various neo-nazi groups. Take a look at my profile page, and you'll see that I'm not exactly the condescending, big city type.
19 posted on 08/30/2002 8:42:00 AM PDT by Dakmar
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No, no, I didn't mean you (as far as the condescension) - I meant the producers. We've both been around long enough to know where the other's coming from...

What a meant was that inflicting Hillary (ptui!) on NI...that's a hangin' offense...

20 posted on 08/30/2002 8:47:30 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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