# Make Up Your Own Fox Reality Show! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 3, 2003, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-your-own-fox-reality-show/158763 "2003-03-03T16:07:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-your-own-fox-reality-show/158763/61 "2003-03-06T22:15:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sampiro \* > **PAINTBALL MAFIA > Four “families” are assigned districts in New York (actually Toronto- it’s cheaper to film). Each weak they have to “battle” for new territories by performing physical stunts, answering trivia questions, or by wiping out all the members of the other team with paintball hits. The winning team is the first to wipe out the heavily guarded dons of all the other families. (You can advance in the family by orchestrating a hit on your own don, but he doesn’t count toward your kills UNLESS you pull out and start your own family.)** I’d sign up to play this one, actually. And I _hate_ reality TV. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-your-own-fox-reality-show/158763/62 "2003-03-06T22:16:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jr8 \* > \*\*I suppose you’ll have better luck with that than with your **Win Michael Ellis’s Virginity!** idea… > > 😛 \*\* Well, it has a better possibility of going to series, at least. The other one was more of a one-off special. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![NE\_Texan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e99b99/32.png) [@NE\_Texan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NE_Texan)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-your-own-fox-reality-show/158763/63 "2003-03-06T22:38:04Z")
**ORGAN DONOR SURVIVOR** Contestants from all over are lured to this show by the $10M prize. Contestants are carefully typed to see who their organs would match. There is a second set of participants who are people in need of an organ donation, matching the first group. The contestants go through daily life, and the audience sees how they behave, and periodically they interact with the group needing the organs. Every week, the TV audience (via mail or the internet) votes for one contestant to donate an organ to save the life of one of the second group. This continues, until there is only one contestant left to claim the prize money. **NETWORK EXECUTIVE FACTOR** A group of network programmers or prospective programmers meet each week. They discuss shows on all the current networks, which ones they would keep, which they would drop, which they would reschedule, and why. They each pitch a new show idea each week. Every week, the TV audience votes one of them out. The winners at the end are hired by the network to do their programming! _Special rule_: Any contestant who proposes (or wants to keep, or has ever proposed in their life) a reality TV show, automatically leaves that week to become a contestant on **CalMeacham’s Executed By America**. ---
**Author:** ![djf750](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@djf750](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/djf750)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-your-own-fox-reality-show/158763/64 "2003-03-06T23:04:56Z")
“Shawshank” Each week a real prisoner in a real prison has to tunnel out of his cell, crawl thru a sewer and then blend back into society. Anyone who can elude capture for one full year is given a check for 1 million dollars, a Cadillac Escalade and a full pardon. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-your-own-fox-reality-show/158763/65 "2003-03-06T23:28:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by djf750 \* > \*\*“Shawshank” > > Each week a real prisoner in a real prison has to tunnel out of his cell, crawl thru a sewer and then blend back into society. > > Anyone who can elude capture for one full year is given a check for 1 million dollars, a Cadillac Escalade and a full pardon. \*\* Maybe that could be incorporated into the whole **Interceptor** concept. I’m sure the Russian penal system could use the money from the networks… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-your-own-fox-reality-show/158763.md?page=3)