The End of Television

...as we know it.

It all began in 2000 or 2001. One of the most popular television shows of this decade, Survivor, hit the airwaves and that is when television as we knew it began to hit rock bottom.

After Survivor, we were blessed with an onslaught of "reality" programs.

- Average Joe
- The Bachelor
- Amazing Race
- American Idol
- Canadian Idol
- Big Brother
- The Real World
- Beauty and the Geek
- Flavour of Love
- Rock of Love

In other words, junk TV! Some of these are even contests...the most local being Canadian Idol. Contestant, Earl Stevenson, was from Lloydminster (where I'm from) and you should have seen the craziness that ensued! It wasn't even fair! I heard stories of people texting in their vote 900 times a night with 3 different cell phones! Come on.

The ultimate in "reality" television started a few weeks ago with...Paris Hilton's My New BFF. I pray that this show is supposed to be bad. I've actually seen it on my TV guide a few times and I couldn't resist the urge to turn it on. I turned it on and I was almost embarrassed for the "contestants"! Who would compete to become someone's best friend? I'm not a big, deep, emotional guy but did you ever have to compete to make friends? The show looks terribly scripted, like Paris struggled to get her lame lines out so she got 23 takes. On top of that...how arrogant can one person be to host a show where people compete to be your "BFF"?

This is the end of the world