I have seen commercials for it, and unless my comprehension isnt what it used to be, the show is like this:
They take a few ‘committed’ couples, and put them on a lush resort style island with a group of sexy singles who try to seduce them and break up the relationship!!!
Is it just me, or is this the most fucked up thing ever?
Whats next?
Maybe they put a group of stressed out parents in a room with bad kids and push them till one of them beats a kid!
Oh, here is one: they put a bunch of suicidal people in a movie theater with guns razor blades etc, and show Sad movies until one of them cracks!
This is fucking sick stuff - purposefully breaking up a relationship… And where in hell do they find the ‘sexy singles’ willing to degrade and debase themselves on television as ‘homewreckers’???
What is television coming to? I thought FOX learned their lesson with Who Wants to Prostitute Themselves to a Millionaire!
Great Kelly, now you’ve given them not one, but two ideas! Dollars to doughnuts says at least one of these shows will be slated for next year’s mid-season line up.
:rolleyes:
There’s already a show like this, without the island. It’s called ‘Change of heart’ or something similar. They have a ‘Love Connection’ type set, bring out a couple, then bring out someone that one of the couple has just dated. “Will they stay together?”
Horrible.
You know this one doesn’t sound half bad. I’d pay to see it. Hell, I’d be a producer. I’m sure I could think of creative ways of sending the “message”.
are you joking? surely you’ve heard of Jerry Springer and you even mentioned the “who wants to prostitute themselves to a millionaire”. there is no shortage of people willing to do whatever they must in order to get on TV.
What’s even more screwed is that they found four couples willing to do it. And everyone looks like they are extras on “Baywatch”. Kind of pushes the definition of reality show. Only took one season for commercial TV to get back to the comforting illusion that all real people look like underwear models.
Okay, suspension of disbelief aside, how committed do you think these couples are? “I’m so committed to my boyfriend, I’m going to take him to an island where lots of hot people try to break us up, because I’m THAT sure that our love will last forever.” Please. More like “I really, really, really, really want to be on TV, and will debase myself in whatever way is necessary. I met this girl when I was waiting tables in LA, we are posing as a couple in order to get on the show. This could be my big break!!! Ooh, look at my biceps!”
I doubt all that much separates the couples from the singles. It’s gonna end with one big happy orgy, after a lot of hairpulling and fake moral angst.
If they could promise me charging wild animals, I’d watch it. But since they can’t, I’ll just be skipping that one.
I agree that the whole thing sucks and is horrible and a symptom of cultural decline and that Fox ought to be ashamed of themselves.
But what really makes it a pointless exercise is that it is on network TV where T&A is forbidden. Temptation Island has an extremely high T&A potential; one of the very highest ever. It seems to me that the crux, the heart of the matter, if you will, is squandered by being on Fox. On network TV, such a show will just be another teeny-bop porn-tease a la MTV’s whats-its-name; thanks, but I’ll pass.
But on the right channel - Showtime or Playboy etc. - it could be a cross between Survivor and Emmanuelle in Paradise. EPIC ratings.
Still, there’s hope. I am reminded of the immortal words of Marge Simpson: “You know, Fox turned into a hard-core pornography channel so slowly, I barely even noticed.”
Why can’t America quit trying to combine every single thing that gets on the toob with soft-core porn? There are a few exceptions, but even they seem to carry an element of “let’s laugh at the ugly people.” Other than that, unless every person who sees you wants sex with you, forget about getting an acting job on TV in America.
I can just see what aliens viewing our TV are saying: “Ohh, so pert, so curvy, and a Nobel-prizewinning physicist/biologist as well! And only 22! How does she find time?”
I’ll be a few channels over, watching “Jonathan Creek” and Hamish Macbeth."
I agree that for a TV show the idea sucks. But, for a single horny person, the prospect of getting someone to pose as your mate and sign up for that show so you can be seduced by underwear models? Yeah, sign me up!
looks horribly embarassed
What’s T&A? I just got laughed at yesterday for not knowing what it means, so… Someone, enlighten me?
And put me in for a huge “That’s Horrible” vote. I’ve seen “Change of Heart” a few times (Give me a break! It’s on after Angel and no one wanted to get off teh couch to turn off the TV and by the time it started we were hypnotically horrified…).
It just shows how much meaningful relationships mean to fame-grabbers.
I just finished reading “She’s Come Undone” which includes a description of a 1950s TV program that my Mom used to watch while she ironed clothes in the afternoon. I remember just the basics. Here goes the plot: three or four contestants tell their sob stories to the mc and the audience. Husband fired, critically ill kid, no house/car/job and just about living on the street…the stories are really heartbreaking. The ladies usually cried while telling their story, the mc prods them for more emotions and then the audience votes on who should be QUEEN FOR A DAY. The winner gets a new washing machine or refrigerator and something to help the family out of their current predicament. She smiles thru her tears of happiness… I don’t remember what happens to the losing candidate-queens.
I have no problem with charity or helping folks out, but there is no need for folks in need to grovel and cry. And yes, there is no threat of violence like the low-lifes on Springer or weird sexual relationships [I schtuppped your mother and now I am moving in on your father].
Queen for a Day, the afternoon talk shows [early Oprah, Sally Jesse R*&^%$? etal], Springer … there’s a lot of history there leading up to these reality tv programs. It ain’t sumpin’ new.
The Fox execs must truly have shit for brains. To quote, “Fox has sunk to a new low” (Lisa Simpson). I can’t believe that anyone would actually agree to be on this show.
“Hey Fox! Break up me and my boy/girlfriend’s relationship! I want a million bucks, or a quick fling! Whichever comes first!”
