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To anyone who thought there’s nothing worse than warmed-over Reality TV retread programming, you’re right. David Lyle, head of the Fox Reality Channel, broke the news to staffers today that this 4-year-old unwatchable experiment will end operations on March 31st of next year even though it’s currently available in nearly 50 million homes as part of the Fox Cable Networks group. Ironically, the news comes a day after its awards bash was taped for an October 17th broadcast. Programming and production chief Bob Boden announced earlier this year he was leaving the channel to join Hasbro.
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Great! A small victory for scripted television and American culture.
You mean people didn’t flock to reruns of Temptation Island and The Mole???
This is the same company that couldn’t make The Family Channel work, so I think it says less about the concept and more about the idiots running things.
Ah yes, the FOX Family Channel. The only thing that was family is that edition of the Family Channel was the 700 Club. The rest was just FOX trash mixed in with a few movies, the Saturday Kids lineup repeating on the weekdays, and baseball in the last year of the channel (2001) before the sale to ABC. This afforded us the luxury of seeing west coast postseason baseball (ALDS or NLDS) at 11:05 PM at night start time on the East Coast. When it became ABC Family, there was a regular season Thursday baseball package, but that moved to ESPN, however the late night LDSs continued for a few years on ABC Family.
As for FOX Reality, I am not surprised. Even with it bloated, cable is doing just as good or better than broadcast as long as you have decent programming. Many of the channels don’t have that nowdays. Expect many of the cable networks that exploit people for little or no reason or offer up reality and other trash to get the heave-ho in the coming months. I am guessing that cable companies will lose about 80 to 90 cable networks.
But then what will stupid people watch now?!
> But then what will stupid people watch now?!
FOX News?
I guess we’re surrounded by stupid people … FOX News gets more viewers at 3am than CNN does at primetime.
I guess you’re right
Why NBC of course. Fool.
The 700 Club? Trinity Broadcast Network?
So… is there someone interested in buying it for the clearance? The content might be a total waste, but the clearance has to be worth something to someone.
CBS.
Oh No! Now where am I gonna watch Househusbands of Hollywood, my new favorite show?
No surprise here.
I got sucked into a marathon of Househusbands of Hollywood…the only thing I have ever watched there…and it was actually pretty good. The dynamic of men at home and driven women, money and sex and self-esteem…with men in a more powerless position. Drama. Hope it has a life.
Ok, well now we know that it will become Nat Geo Wild, a nature channel channel to go head to head with Animal Planet but that will aslo show natural world stuff too.
I think this is the first time in decades that TV has taken a step forward to be coming more intelligent!
Way to go FOX, you may have got one thing right!
Many of the shows on the channel might have been unwatchable (even the second time around) but my family and I did truly enjoy Solitare (2.0 and 3.0). I hope there is another channel that will pick up this show.
I haven’t watched the channel much, don’t care for much reality tv other than Amazing Race but have been catching the Solitary 1-3 marathon right now and it’s quite enjoyable and since season 4 is around the corner maybe season 5 can find a home somewhere else.
And really, I’d rather have all the reality tv relegated to one channel than filling up all the channels.