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With the nation’s unemployment rate still at record levels, Lifetime is launching a new unscripted series designed to help job seekers. Titled The Fairy Jobmother, the show based on a British format stars career specialist Hayley Taylor. Per the network: “The Fairy Jobmother will follow Taylor each week as she assists severely job-challenged families with her no-nonsense and tough love tactics to motivate them to get back on the payroll.” Studio Lambert (Undercover Boss) is producing the eight-episode series, which will get a sneak peek on October 28, immediately following the Project Runway Season 8 finale, before moving to its regular 9 PM time period on Nov. 4. Stephen Lambert, creator of Undercover Boss and Wife Swap, and Eli Holzman (Project Runway) serve as executive producers, while Shannon Keenan Demers (Big Brother) is executive producer and showrunner.
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Knowing several unemployed friends, they don’t need a reality show, they need jobs!! They already live a reality that doesn’t need a show telling them to get a job, use phony tactics, mock them etc. etc. What a pitiful excuse for a show.
Hey Brad, that’s a pretty cynical judgment. Here’s mine. TV doesn’t have to “use phony tactics or mock them, etc.” to be entertaining. The power of nationwide TV can be used for something worthwhile that can actually help people AND give them entertainment. Then maybe they’ll turn to TV for something that’s in their best interests and turn off Fox News where they are regularly lied to, frightened and made fun of. Have you ever seen Extreme Home Makeover? What’s phony and mocking about that? People might just like the sound of “You’re Hired” rather than “You’re Fired”.
Keep the faith,
Peter
Peter,
I totally agree with you. If I new what time the fair jobmother came on I would watch her. Also I love the show Home Extreme Makeover. Everytime I watch it I wish I could be on it, because I love to help people that are less fortunate than me. I just wish there was someone out there to help me find a job that I could keep. Anyone have any suggestions? Please email me at srghayden@yahoo.com. Thanks for your help.
Having seen The Fairy Godmother in Britain this is no picnic reality series. Don’t know what American producers will do with the show but the Brit version is gritty, hard work and gives only tough love
Sounds like a show that a Tea Party candidate would love. “The reason why you don’t have a job is because of you. Not because the economy sucks.” The further decline of the American middle chronicled in an inane reality show that blames them for their decline. Sweet. What next- telling a cancer patient “God’s punishing you!”
Hayley Taylor. A name thet is becoming famous or should that be infamous here in Gt. Britain. You see, what the abouve piece does not tell you is thet she (Taylor) used to work for a notoriuous company called A4e.
A4e claim to get 1,000′s into jobs, provide training and deliver work experience. Which all sounds super. Except, it does not happen for the most part.
They have been fined for fraud such as falsyfying clients signatures and providing non existent courses. A4e have a reputation that preceeds them. Just go onto YouTube and tpye in A4e. The comments speak for themselves. Oh, you’ll see Ms Taylor pop up too!
From Drop Dead Diva to this? Pitiful is an understatement. The network was finally starting to turn around it’s programming and have some actual, quality shows…what a shame.
I think this show is a agreat idea. Unemployed people lose cooperative skills the longer they are unemployed. People need to see how they really behave sometimes. People get in a rut of negativity. I can’t wait for this to air. I have an unemployed daughter and a single parent of 3.She doesn’t like to listen to her Mom who know’s nothing (but has been employed for 30 years.) There should be classes to educate people on how to be a good employee along with the assistance the government gives.Employers would benefit and so would workers. Transition is very hard. I am grateful to have a job for today. We all could learn a life lesson here.
What a steaming pile. This is another “drama induced” fake reality show. It is not entertainment to listen to someone who is not familiar with the US job market to give long-term unemployed a few vague pointers. The show could have been 30 minutes; dragging it out to an hour was a huge mistake. I won’t be watching anymore.
Just what we need to see in the US — another job outsourced. 33 million citizens out of work in this country and NONE were qualified to host this exploitative show? Really?