For those of you who enjoy A&E's Parking Wars, you may want to check this series out:
http://www.aetv.com/last-chance-driving-school/ (http://www.aetv.com/last-chance-driving-school/)
Premieres Saturday, April 14th, 10/9C
^^ Looks like driving on the Chicago expressways and tollways on a daily basis. :wow: :-o
Quote from: DaBigE on April 07, 2012, 02:24:33 PM
For those of you who enjoy A&E's Parking Wars, you may want to check this series out:
http://www.aetv.com/last-chance-driving-school/ (http://www.aetv.com/last-chance-driving-school/)
Premieres Saturday, April 14th, 10/9C
In other news, A&E announces they're out of good show ideas. :p
Quote from: US71 on April 08, 2012, 04:30:43 PM
In other news, A&E announces they're out of good show ideas. :p
Expect TruTV to follow-up with a cheesier version a couple weeks later... :pan:
Quote from: DaBigE on April 08, 2012, 07:07:11 PM
Quote from: US71 on April 08, 2012, 04:30:43 PM
In other news, A&E announces they're out of good show ideas. :p
Expect TruTV to follow-up with a cheesier version a couple weeks later... :pan:
Kind of like how Storage Wars got ripped off with Auction Hunters by Spike?
and now "Sold" on History. I don't mind most of these shows except the really fake ones. Operation Repo is the worst. I really enjoyed Undercover Boss but quickly got sick of the "formula" (i.e. I gave $50,000 to these 4 employees I worked with who all had hard luck cases they told me about the day I met them). One I really like now is "Restaurant Stakeout"
Quote from: bulldog1979 on April 10, 2012, 06:08:09 AM
Quote from: DaBigE on April 08, 2012, 07:07:11 PM
Quote from: US71 on April 08, 2012, 04:30:43 PM
In other news, A&E announces they're out of good show ideas. :p
Expect TruTV to follow-up with a cheesier version a couple weeks later... :pan:
Kind of like how Storage Wars got ripped off with Auction Hunters by Spike?
And TruTV has
Storage Hunters, the closest (and IMO, worst) ripoff to
Storage Wars. A&E didn't make things any better by creating their own spinoff with the Texas version.
Texas one is the only one I like. But I hate the trend that when one show is a hit, everyone has to try to copy it. Like all the fake Pawn Stars shows.
I love "Shipping Wars".
Quote from: texaskdog on April 10, 2012, 10:14:03 AM
Texas one is the only one I like. But I hate the trend that when one show is a hit, everyone has to try to copy it. Like all the fake Pawn Stars shows.
With the exception of preferring the original
Storage Wars, I agree.
Quote from: hobsini2 on April 10, 2012, 06:42:51 PM
I love "Shipping Wars".
Ditto. I wish they would hurry up with some new episodes. I'm beginning to be able to recite all of the re-runs word-for-word.
I guess I like the Texas storage wars most since I live in Texas, and the crazy redneck lady & Bubba/Ricky are so stereotypical Texan
I enjoy them too, as well as Victor, but I absolutely cannot take any more Moe. There's something about him that annoys the crap out of me. :banghead: He's what drove me away from that show. I'd rather listen to another "YUUUUP!" from Dave (but not by much).
I'm sure others noticed the incorrect reference to Jamestown, ND when they were actually in Jamestown, NY. The NY 17, I-86 and STE signage was a dead giveaway.
Anyone else watch the series premiere?
I didn't think it was too bad, but I can see it getting old very fast. A couple of the drivers almost made me want to contact the driving school and tell them that they're doing all of us a disservice by trying to get some of those people licenses. The blond with the purse dog and cell phone shouldn't come anywhere remotely near a driver's seat. :wow:
Quote from: US71 on April 08, 2012, 04:30:43 PM
Quote from: DaBigE on April 07, 2012, 02:24:33 PM
For those of you who enjoy A&E's Parking Wars, you may want to check this series out:
http://www.aetv.com/last-chance-driving-school/ (http://www.aetv.com/last-chance-driving-school/)
Premieres Saturday, April 14th, 10/9C
In other news, A&E announces they're out of good show ideas. :p
IMHO, I cant see this one lasting long.
Saw it, kinda funny but at the same time it looks just like every other A&E show. Stupid people who get mad at other stupid people for doing stupid things. Its like their other show Parking Wars but on the move instead of parked.
Quote from: DaBigE on April 11, 2012, 01:54:25 PM
I enjoy them too, as well as Victor, but I absolutely cannot take any more Moe. There's something about him that annoys the crap out of me. :banghead: He's what drove me away from that show. I'd rather listen to another "YUUUUP!" from Dave (but not by much).
Only thing I like about Victor is he gets off on annoying the old redneck lady
The fact that there are multiple shows where a pack of vultures pick over the carcass of somebody's life is definitive proof that there are too many channels.
Quote from: triplemultiplex on April 17, 2012, 04:45:47 PM
The fact that there are multiple shows where a pack of vultures pick over the carcass of somebody's life is definitive proof that there are too many channels.
I think that point was made well before any storage vulture shows aired. Seriously, how many more seasons of
American Idol can their be?? :confused: With the ever-shortening attention-span of US teens, I don't see how they haven't lost interest in that show yet. At least
Storage Wars and to a lesser extent,
Parking Wars makes an attempt at comedy with "reality".
I don't know anyone who watched American Idol anymore. Everyone's welcome to their opinion but the season where Kris Allen won over Adam Lambert was the final straw. It wasnt the only season where good people got kicked off way too early and the same old boring singer whos good but wont be a star won. I like these others like The Voice that stir it up a little and do a new thing. I dunno how that's still on.
I've been watching Parking Wars like crazy. It makes me wanna be the boot guy but I don't think they really put boots on cars that much in Los Angeles :( Never seen one in real life here but on the show Operation Repo they had a car they needed to tow that had a boot.
Also any opinion on Operation Repo? I have their facebook page liked and people say its scripted but it seems a little too raw to be scripted to me... I love that they do it in the San Fernando Valley cause that's where I am.
Quote from: bulkyorled on April 18, 2012, 02:39:01 AM
Also any opinion on Operation Repo? I have their facebook page liked and people say its scripted but it seems a little too raw to be scripted to me... I love that they do it in the San Fernando Valley cause that's where I am.
I used to watch it, but it's another show that got old, fast. It seems too fake and staged. I know they're supposed to be reenactments of actual events, but to me, that reinforces the need for better actors. I find the same to be true with
Hardcore Pawn--much prefer History's
Pawn Stars. TruTV overall seems to be the 'scraping the bottom of the barrel network', full of other networks' copied ideas.
Lizard Lick Towning >>>>> Operation Repo.
Repo took about 3 shows before I realized how fake it was. Someone ALWAYS runs out at the exact moment of the tow. Probably the fakest of the fake "reality" shows.
Idol picks the less obvious winner to create controversy, and stir up buzz. Clay was never going to beat Ruben!
Quote from: hbelkins on April 18, 2012, 09:55:38 AM
Lizard Lick Towning >>>>> Operation Repo.
Agreed. I can't think of the exact name of it, but Spike's quiz-show version repo show is much more entertaining than Op Repo.
I saw that once. I think it's called "Repo Games." It's actually quite amusing. Take the dumbest people you can imagine, and put them on an easy version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire...
Quote from: hbelkins on April 18, 2012, 09:55:38 AM
Lizard Lick Towning >>>>> Operation Repo.
The Miami one is my favorite of the fake tow truck shows.
Some of Operation Repo does look staged, a bit of it doesn't make sense but I'm sure they tow cars away where no one comes out but who wants to see that? Big deal a car getting towed where no one comes out screaming and yelling. Some it seems a little too real to me but a lot of it seems farfetched I suppose. If anyone saw the episode where they went up Browns Cyn Rd and towed the Prius away from those kids pretending they're knights wizards and princesses, that seemed ridiculous.
I agree about the pawn shows though. Pawn Stars is better, the other one is a bunch of ghetto trash coming in trying to get something for nothing then when they don't get it they erupt and security takes them out. But even Pawn Stars is a bit worn out to me. I feel like they also try and get something for nothing and he's always got someone he knows who can appraise the smallest crap that no one's ever seen before. If someone came in with a 16th century bag of carrot chips he'd somehow have someone who knows about these things and can appraise it and tell them everything they know about their item is wrong
Repo: completely fake. Would be nice if they were real and just amped up a bit, like Cops. If they started cops today it would be, well, Reno 911
Pawn Stars started out real. They make it look like its a "not really busy" pawn shop, and that the guys work. In reality the guys stay in back now except for the show, the shop is 50% merch (you can occasionally see that), a lot of the stuff (Chumlee is an idiot e.g.) is obviously all staged, and a lot of their skits. If it wasnt for TV they couldnt afford to bring all the experts in.
The thing with Repo that gives some of it away is that they make it seem too glamorous. We're gonna need a new type of show here soon or it'll kill A&E again. They don't do their classic "biography channel" stuff like they use to.
What did they do? Run out of Biographies...?
It's the same reason the SciFi channel became SyFy and started focusing on ghosts. Or that the History Channel now is all about aliens. Or that The Learning Channel is 100% focused on wedding drama.
No, the History Channel is all about pawning. Learning Channel is all about midgets. SciFi is about pro rasslin. MTV is all about fake reality. Home & Garden is all about choosing houses. Lifetime is all about wifeswapping.
Quote from: texaskdog on April 20, 2012, 08:30:49 AM
SciFi is about pro rasslin.
never would've guessed.
all my TV comes from Netflix.
Which channel is for "Ow My Balls"?
"TLC" hasn't stood for "The Learning Channel" for over a decade. Just as well since in practice, it is now the Freak Show Channel.
midgets
insane people getting married
dipshits who think they're psychic
pedophilia pageants
addicts
people with disgusting amounts of children
garbage hoarders
Sarah Palin
See? Nothing but freaks.
Quote from: algorerhythms on April 20, 2012, 02:38:40 PM
Which channel is for "Ow My Balls"?
Just give Spike another year or two.
(Great reference, btw; "Idiocracy" is some of Mike Judge's finest work.)
The amazing thing is, none of these objectively dumb shows discussed in this thread are something anyone demanded. We didn't even care that we got the channels they're on. Those channels were just lumped in with our cable or satellite package that we got so we could watch sports and movies and well-written shows the broadcast networks were too stupid or too spineless to air. They are filler shows on filler networks that really don't need to exist.
What's worse is once people paid attention to some of these stupid shows, they spread like a cancer into formerly good channels like History or Discovery. Before you know it, there's nine shows with idiots waving gizmos around in the dark, and every career held by ill-tempered, cursing rednecks is suddenly worth televising.
Quote from: triplemultiplex on April 17, 2012, 04:45:47 PM
The fact that there are multiple shows where a pack of vultures pick over the carcass of somebody's life is definitive proof that there are too many channels.
Quoted for truth.
Watched about five minutes of Last Chance Driving School, and realized that all the sound and visual effects were meant for an audience about one-quarter my age. Face it, this isn't really an interesting enough of a topic for a twenty-two minute show...this coming from someone who watches people drive cars in circles and fancy shapes about 30 weekends a year.
This is why we need less channels, not more.
I thought of this thread the other night, I saw an Op. Repo. episode where Matt had to take a shit and they swung around the corner at a high speed and flipped a car they were towing with the camera guy inside. Not a new episode I dont think but what the hell...
Anyone else ever caught an episode (or two or three) of Wrecked on the Speed Network?
Even the Weather Channel half the time isn't broadcasting the current weather because they're showing mostly nonsense such as "Ice Pilots" and "Turbine Cowboys." And even the long-form programming that is weather-related, such as "Storm Stories" gets monotonous real fast--they seem to show about the same three episodes over and over again. :pan:
The thing with all these reality shows that have popped up in the last decade, is that they really aren't reality. They're certainly not my reality. They must call them reality shows becuase they're not scripted, even though half of them feel more scripted and fake than pro wrestling. Most of these shows are hell-bent on getting people to create drama between themselves. If it wasn't for the drama, it wouldn't get the ratings. Even one reality show I like, Deadliest Catch, wouldn't be as exciting if it just focused on the fishing, or the horrible weather. You gotta have the drama. And that's the thing I hate about reality shows. I can't stand all the drama!
Are there any that are truly reality? Some of the ones I enjoyed Restaurant Stakeout (all fake), Storage Wars (seems to be pretty fake), Pit Boss (a lot of staged things), Undercover Boss....Gene Simmons.. Thinking Ice Road Truckers is all real but they dont try to make it exciting other than making you think someone will fall thru the ice or off a cliff.
Quote from: bulkyorled on May 03, 2012, 09:21:14 AM
I thought of this thread the other night, I saw an Op. Repo. episode where Matt had to take a shit and they swung around the corner at a high speed and flipped a car they were towing with the camera guy inside. Not a new episode I dont think but what the hell...
Took me about 3 episodes to figure out this is 100% fake
It's reality from the standpoint that life is generally 99.5% mundane and average, and 0.5% exciting. Problem is, like a person with some sort of mental disorder or Munchausen's Disease, the reality must be distorted into something much more important than it really is...a good time to cut to commercial, followed by something far less interesting when you return to the source of the mystery.
To fill in the blanks of boredom, make sure some basic or average life event the viewers can relate to (birthdays, anniversaries, waiting at a post office) is dramatized and amplified with sponsors and unsavory language to make it seem believable. Also, make sure to have someone who always brags about how unpolitically-correct they are and how they always speak their mind...as if that's something of a unique trait, since most people outgrew when they were six years old.
Quote from: formulanone on May 11, 2012, 03:17:12 PM
It's reality from the standpoint that life is generally 99.5% mundane and average, and 0.5% exciting. Problem is, like a person with some sort of mental disorder or Munchausen's Disease, the reality must be distorted into something much more important than it really is...a good time to cut to commercial, followed by something far less interesting when you return to the source of the mystery.
To fill in the blanks of boredom, make sure some basic or average life event the viewers can relate to (birthdays, anniversaries, waiting at a post office) is dramatized and amplified with sponsors and unsavory language to make it seem believable. Also, make sure to have someone who always brags about how unpolitically-correct they are and how they always speak their mind...as if that's something of a unique trait, since most people outgrew when they were six years old.
Sadly people who watch these "reality" shows get depressed because their lives aren't that exciting. Life by nature is boring or exciting if you make it that way. I love traveling, highlight of my year, but is there anything more boring than travel shows?
Hah...probably the only travel thing I'll watch for five minutes is Rick Steves European tours, and that's only because I start the channel surfing at Channel 2 (PBS).