12 people are dropped off on the streets of New York with the clothes on their back. Period. They have to find a way to survive as homeless people. Every week one person is voted off the island (of Manhattan), unless one of them has been killed by accident or violence during the week. In which case everyone else gets a pass. Homeless shelters are OK, but if one of them is caught sleeping in a hotel or a home, they’re disqualified.
Haven’t come up with any challenges yet . . . something involving a rat on a stick, I think?
I would like to see top athletes compete against other top athletes at their chosen sport. Particularly the games of Baseball and Football. Now that would be truly great reality TV.
Actually come to think of it, it might be fun to see a top Defensive Football take on the 12 finalist of American Idol or any other of those shows.
As I understand it, the premise behind Big Brother is to take people, deprive them of stimulation for weeks on end, then watch as they overreact to each other over the tiniest, most trivial situations.
Surely this can be improved by adding hallucinogens to their drinking supply?
Change the city in the OP from New York to Mogadishu and I’m in!
Seriously, I would like to see an “Amazing Race” type show with much harder tasks and pros instead of semi-competents competing. Less structure would be OK too. Cape Town to Cairo overland. Here’s $1000 and a Swiss Army Knife, go. You could have a team of Green Berets, a team of Dakar rally vets, survival experts, etc.
Commercial spokespersons are dropped off on a remote island with a limited supply of food and water. The last one to survive is rescued, but only on the condition that he/she/it never appears in an ad again.
Imagine the ratings for the episode in which Billy Mays and the Geico gecko race to find the last scrap of nourishment.
Personally, I’d like to see Wasp Challenge, where contestants must defeat a nest of angry wasps attached to the ceiling of a small windowless room armed with nothing but a broomstick.
