"Reality" Television

The following record is from a meeting of the creative heads at the corporation that controls all of the different broadcast television networks.

It is possibly complete fiction. The facts are yet to be confirmed.

                                                              11/Jan/2009

                     Transcript of the Meeting

John - We have to transform our current programming to adapt to this new economy.
We have to appeal to the new class of poverty that was created.

Margaret - I don't think we can just create a model of programming that relates to everyone, John.

John - Margaret, go pack your things, you're fired.

Smeevles - Sir, I put together some notes of the ways we can penetrate this new market.

John - Go on

Smeevles - One way would be to create shows about storage lockers where "regular folk" go and purchase lockers that were left vacant by evicted renters. Then the regular folk go and count all their new acquired treasures and we state how much money they made off of the purchase. Also, we can put this on our History channel, because they are finding old stuff.

John - Okay, that is a bit of a stretch to say that this is History related, but that's golden. Many possibilities of spin off shows with that. What else have you got?

Smeevles, nervously looking through his notes, excitedly explains his next idea.

Smeevles - This one is easy. We create several different cooking shows that are all competitions. Our numbers say that cooking shows only appeal to 15% of viewers, but competition shows appeal to 80%.

John - That's good. I like these. "Reality" television is cheap. Anything else?

Smeevles - I have an idea for our Criminal Investigation channel. First, we do a show where Cops are looking for ghosts. After that, we can do unlimited ghost shows where everyday citizens are looking for ghosts, because we already broke the ice with our initial show.

John - Genius, Smeevles. We'll keep you around for a bit longer.

Smeevles - Thank you sir.

John - Alright, that covers The Food Network, CI, and History channel. We will have another meeting next week to figure out the rest of the channels.