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EXCLUSIVE: I hear the CW is picking up to series H8R, an one-hour reality project from Warner Horizon, which pairs people with celebrities they absolutely detest. Additionally, I hear that the series pickup deal for the Sarah Michelle Gellar-starring mystery drama RINGER at the CW is now done. The network is expected to unveil both series at its upfront presentation on Thursday.
Mario Lopez hosts H8R, in which celebrities confront their biggest haters and try to convince them that their animosity is misdirected. The CW first ordered a pilot for the project, which featured reality stars Snooki and Kim Kardashian. The pilot has been red-hot at the CW. The network for years has been looking for a new big, loud reality series to join America’s Next Top Model, and I hear the feeling internally is that this might be it. H8R also represents some Time Warner synergy as it comes from a team that works on the Telepictures-produced entertainment newsmagazine Extra. Extra host Lopez is executive producing H8R with Extra senior executive producer Lisa Gregorisch-Dempsey and co-executive producer Jeremy Spiegel. Warner Horizon’s reality division has been on a roll lately. It is also behind NBC’s breakout hit The Voice.
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Is this a joke?
Can we stop trying to be hip, and be more literate? How about HATER or HATERS instead of H8R?
I agree. The concept is genius, but the title will kill it. Even the 10 seconds it takes to process the title and figure out what it means and connect it to the show, is 10 seconds too long. This is part of CW’s long trend of over-thinking things in trying to be hip, and instead shooting themselves in the foot. They value “cutesy” over simple, and so alienate the people they are trying to attract.
any one in the actual CW demo target will know what the title means in a millisecond.
It’s for midseason right? Like all the other reality… or will it takes a spot of the fall, and so cw will launch only 2 show in september???
Because if cw will launch this stupid reality instead of Hart of Dixie or Ringer or Secret circle… they are really STUPID!
Hart of Dixie is nap time excuse.
Yes, the CW exectuive will be stupid to pick up a show that people will watch, over shows that no one will watch.
Did Mario take the host gig so he wouldn’t have to be featured on the show? I’m sure the line would stretch around the block.
I was just gonna ask when they are casting for Mario’s ep!
If only Mario’s GF/Baby Mama was on it, too. I’m sure that line would stretch a few blocks. Whiner/Phony/Italian Princess/Fame Whore.
Oh wait! She is not a celebrity…… LOL
Agreed. I’d watch this if he wasn’t hosting. He annoys me beyond explanation.
Is this it for them or will they pick up a couple more.
Really?? This sounds awful. I rather have another scripted one hour than this crap.
I don’t know. In general, I hate “reality” TV, but at least shows like Shark Tank attempt to inspire people to go out and improve their own lives. We live in a culture that celebrates verbally tearing down others during cocktail party conversation rather than going out and making our dreams happen. Maybe this show will get people thinking about how misdirected that energy is.
Yes, I know that’s a bit optimistic, but I believe in giving things the benefit of the doubt until they prove otherwise.
Ugh, I thought the CW would finally grow up under it’s new regime. Guess not. H8R sounds really, really stupid. Like Farmers seeking wives type of stupid. Looking forward to Ringer though, would fit nicely with Nikita on tuesdays. Hope The CW still picks up Hart of Dixie and Secret Circle as they both sound promising. And if the CW have any ambitions of ever being taken seriously they have to stop renewing crap like One Tree Hill.
You want me to give any of these new shows a chance, gotta keep OTH. You cancel that, you lose me. As simple as that.
p.s. it’s OTH that’s kept the lights on at The CW
Do you work on Hart of Dixie??
Please Please cw don’t be stupid, I already see this show failing in the 3rd week, I just hope that they pick-up Secret Circle too, cause if not I’m gonna hate the cw forever!!!
If they’re starting this show using “celebrities” like Snooki and Kim Kardashian then I imagine that by mid-season they’ll be past the D List and into the Z List and expect to see Heidi/Spencer and Antoine Dodson.
They’re lucky if they could make this into a series of specials let alone a full on tv series.
And is Snooki even likable? I don’t understand the point then.
My God, worst idea for a show ever…
“The pilot has been red-hot at the CW”
How is that possible? Do these people not have any taste? Oh wait, that’s right. It’s the CW.
First of all, this is a great idea for a network like the CW. Their core base is teenagers, which would probably eat up a show like this. H8Rs actually sounds like one of the best reality show ideas they have tried. The network needs success before they can begin to take major risks like expanding the demographics. I am sure that CBS as well as WB are planning on spending more money this year at the CW due to giving the new president a shot at creating a more viable network. It seems with his first two pickups that he might just be able to do that. H8Rs will also be a show that MTV or VH1 or even E! might want to repeat, which could give the CW much needed extra promotion. Don’t forget, all of the other channels have much more time dedicated to reality thatn the CW does. (Fox = AI, X FACTOR, KITCHEN NIGHTMARES) (CBS= UNDERCOVER BOSS, SURVIVOR) (ABC = EXTREME HOME MAKEOVER, DANCING WITH THE STARS ) NBC= BIGGEST LOSER.
The new chief will turn this into a successful network because that is what he has done with other channels and most people have faith in him. H8Rs, as much as it probably will annoy anyone over 30, is a good first step.
I stopped reading at “…this is a great idea for a network like the CW.”
“First of all, this is a great idea for a network like the CW. Their core base is teenagers, which would probably eat up a show like this.”
Maybe but only if the celebs are cool and recognizable enough for that core teen base to care about. Most of these type of reality show guest celebs are not exactly A-listers.
For people under 30… Snooki and Kim Kardashian ARE “A-Listers”. If you didn’t notice… Both those women saved dying networks and are brands unto themselves. I don’t like it anymore then you do, but those are the facts.
First of all: Who mentioned any names?
Second of all: It’s going to take quite a few widely recognizable names to fill an entire season. So I’m guessing this might be a mid-season replacement.
Kardasian and Snooki in the pilot? Reality shows cannibalizing reality shows. There a freak show I want to avoid at any cost. Who do I have to sleep with to never ever have to lay eyes on this both ridiculous and dreadful idea with an equally ridiculous and dreadful title.
How is Warner behind The Voice? They’re just distributing it. John de Mol and Mark Burnett and their companies are ‘behind’ it.
This is, bar none, the stupidest idea I have ever heard. They’ve lost their minds over there. Is lowest common denominator the goal? Do they think there audience is this brain dead?
You lost me at reality show and The CW.
Aside from ANTM(Which came from UPN) The CW can’t do reality.
FINALLY a great idea for the CW! This is the perfect reality show for that Network. I’m sure those over 30 won’t get it..but do you get Jersey Shore?! They need to ditch knockoff shit like Shedding for Wedding and get more ballsy like this.
KUDOS to CW — this show will be HUGE!
And the point is?….. to see a celeb squirm? …A “hater” see the humanity in an overexposed narcissist and become a gooey fan? Exactly what part of the human condition are we exploring or exposing here?
I guess is you have Snookie and Kardasian you don’t need a show. The meaning of celebrity use to be connected with a unique individual. this is just lame.
What I would really like is a follow up series to Smallville called Metropolis. Also, I wish that some of the Scooby Gang from Buffy to be on Ringer. I never watch Americas’s Top Model and I do not like the title of H8rs. I think that they should have more scripted shows instead of reality series.
I’m glad Sarah Michelle Gellar’s pilot “Ringer” got picked up. It sounds promising. Hopefully it will be paired with “Nikita”.
I think it’s a really good idea actually – at least it’s more inventive than Shedding For The Wedding and Plain Jane. Those two couldn’t have been more copycat!
Good grief, what’s next, Stalker: The Bonds of Love, brought to you by 3M duct tape. Or if that’s not edgy enough, how about Abuser – the show that beats the competition, while beating their spouses! Or maybe Rape Kit, CSI goes reality with a new, exciting adventure each week.
Arghhhhhhhhhhhh!
“Reality shows cannibalizing reality shows” seems to be the whole point. This is a reality show starring people who hate people on reality shows; that’s so brilliant and ironic! It’ll also give these celebrities (or “celebrities”) a chance to show people that they’re human. It may have a terrible title and a strange concept, but I think it could be lots of fun. And I’m neither a teenager nor in the CW’s target women 18-34 demographic.
Why haven’t Snooki and the Kardashians been asked to appear on Jeopardy?
Don’t listen to these “h8r”s here on this message board, CW. They are all trolls who know nothing about television. They simply live to criticize and tear down. You’d think they would’ve learned their lesson to shut their f-n mouths after they got the Wonder Woman pilot killed because of their whining. That’s all they want to do…it’s an obsessive spirit, actually…they just want to complain about anything and everything.
Please, CW, don’t make decisions based on what these morons think. Trust your own instincts. Bottom line, be more interested in what the advertisers and your target audience will support, rather than a bunch of TV know-nothings who just trash network ideas on message boards.
Oh and you do? , and also as a viewer it’s out jobs to critize you kissass , the general public knows more than you think on this, and the cw has made really terrable descisions from time to time starting with it’s birth.