# My elderly mom was in a reality show episode

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**Post date:** [February 17, 2015, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-elderly-mom-was-in-a-reality-show-episode/712881/1 "2015-02-17T01:57:08Z")

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And you probably never even heard of it, let alone got to see it.

It was called _It Takes a Choir_: [It Takes a Choir (TV Series 2014– ) - IMDb](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3757694/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)]

and was directed by Gareth Malone: [http://www.garethmalone.com/](http://www.garethmalone.com/)

Mom got to be in the episode called “Senioritis”: ["It Takes a Choir" Senioritis (TV Episode 2014) - IMDb](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3766482/?ref_=ttep_ep4)

The episodes were supposed to have been shown in 2013 over a period of 8 weeks, one ep per week; then it got pushed back twice to 2014 and was finally shown as a marathon on Dec. 29 of that year.

Everyone I know of who saw the series really enjoyed it, especially the aforementioned ep. Sadly, USA Network didn’t have enough faith, or maybe not enough programming smarts, to give it a chance as a weekly series that could have been picked up for more seasons.

At any rate, my cousin DVR’d it, then cut out most of the ads and made the ep into seven clips, which I’ve uploaded to YouTube. They’re called Senioritis 1, 2, 3, 4, 4 001, 4 002, and 4 003–maybe 40 minutes total–and they’re under my username and channel: KATwarts.

Here is the first part, if you’re so inclined:

  
If you want to know which one is Viva’s mom, it’s the one who sings the “even when I’m old and gray” cane-shaking solo in the last part during “You Make Me Feel So Young.”

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**Author:** ![HeXen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@HeXen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeXen)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2015, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-elderly-mom-was-in-a-reality-show-episode/712881/2 "2015-02-17T02:05:56Z")

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Cool. my town had a reality TV show, it was called Armed and Famous and I know quite a few people that were on there. The blonde cop works at my bank a lot.  
The show didn’t last long, I don’t think they aired a full season.

> **[Armed & Famous](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armed_%26_Famous)**
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> Armed & Famous is an American reality television series that premiered January 10, 2007, on CBS. First-run episodes were also aired on VH1 in the United States. After the first episode aired, CBS moved the show into a time slot opposite American Idol on FOX. After four episodes, the show was pulled from the network on January 26, 2007 with broadcast rights for the series shifted to VH1. All six episodes of the series aired on VH1, including two previously unaired episodes from the original CBS ...