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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: TVC15 on May 13, 2008, 09:34:51 PM

Title: New Fox Show: Let's Murder a Rich White Person
Post by: TVC15 on May 13, 2008, 09:34:51 PM
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/television/news/e3i7e5a336a9153b9a5e871edd125568c8d

This has the potential to be awesome.

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The network is set to announce "Secret Millionaire," a new series from RDF USA in which wealthy benefactors go undercover in impoverished neighborhoods. For about 10 days, a multimillionaire meets financially destitute locals and experiences what it's like to live on a meager budget for the first time in their lives. At the show's conclusion, the millionaire reveals his true identity to the community and gives a minimum of $100,000 of his own money to at least one deserving person.

"How often do we see somebody who's homeless on the street and wonder what it would be like to live like that?" Fox president of alternative entertainment Mike Darnell asked. "Whereas the superwealthy are so detached from that experience. This is a really clever conceit and has a great emotional arc to it."

Title: Re: New Fox Show: Let's Murder a Rich White Person
Post by: Eric P on May 13, 2008, 09:38:58 PM
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"How often do we see somebody who's homeless on the street and wonder what it would be like to live like that?"

fucking never
Title: Re: New Fox Show: Let's Murder a Rich White Person
Post by: The Fake Shemp on May 13, 2008, 09:39:56 PM
Let's hope it has more staying power than Moment of Truth - which was fun 'till we realized that nobody would ever go for the top prize.
Title: Re: New Fox Show: Let's Murder a Rich White Person
Post by: FlameOfCallandor on May 13, 2008, 09:40:12 PM
In other news cigarette and booze sales skyrocket when the millionaire gives his money away.
Title: Re: New Fox Show: Let's Murder a Rich White Person
Post by: Rman on May 13, 2008, 09:49:15 PM
Oh, Fox.
Title: Re: New Fox Show: Let's Murder a Rich White Person
Post by: GilloD on May 13, 2008, 09:57:16 PM
Let's hope it has more staying power than Moment of Truth - which was fun 'till we realized that nobody would ever go for the top prize.

They canceled the show in ARgentina because a woman admitted she paid to have her husband killed.
Title: Re: New Fox Show: Let's Murder a Rich White Person
Post by: Joe Molotov on May 13, 2008, 10:02:41 PM
Let's hope it has more staying power than Moment of Truth - which was fun 'till we realized that nobody would ever go for the top prize.

Fox is supposed to be making some more episodes of that.
Title: Re: New Fox Show: Let's Murder a Rich White Person
Post by: Rman on May 13, 2008, 10:03:05 PM
My God, GilloD.
Title: Re: New Fox Show: Let's Murder a Rich White Person
Post by: TVC15 on May 13, 2008, 10:03:58 PM
Let's hope it has more staying power than Moment of Truth - which was fun 'till we realized that nobody would ever go for the top prize.

Moment of Truth was interesting for a few episodes, but then it got kind of annoying to watch, and I really think it would have gotten fairly predictable rather fast.  There really isn't a HUGE pool of shocking secrets out there that the average Joe will have, and if you get a, well, unaverage joe, chances are they can't say anything lest they face the police or something.

The editing was so obnoxious, though.  It would take like a full hour to ask a half dozen questions.
Title: Re: New Fox Show: Let's Murder a Rich White Person
Post by: The Fake Shemp on May 13, 2008, 10:05:44 PM
I want to see a full-on real version of MILF Island and The Running Man.

Does anyone think we're realistically ten years or so away from a version of The Running Man?
Title: Re: New Fox Show: Let's Murder a Rich White Person
Post by: Eel O'Brian on May 13, 2008, 10:19:31 PM
there's a carlin routine about that, it's pretty funny

we live in a world where, at one time in history, thousands of people gathered to watch midgets fight bears and lions

so, yeah, probably less than ten years, actually
Title: Re: New Fox Show: Let's Murder a Rich White Person
Post by: TVC15 on May 13, 2008, 10:21:17 PM
there's a carlin routine about that, it's pretty funny

we live in a world where, at one time in history, thousands of people gathered to watch midgets fight bears and lions

so, yeah, probably less than ten years, actually

Does this mean we are due for our very own American Caligula soon?
Title: Re: New Fox Show: Let's Murder a Rich White Person
Post by: FatalT on May 13, 2008, 10:22:38 PM
there's a carlin routine about that, it's pretty funny

we live in a world where, at one time in history, thousands of people gathered to watch midgets fight bears and lions

so, yeah, probably less than ten years, actually

Does this mean we are due for our very own American Caligula soon?

Can I ride the decapitation machine?
Title: Re: New Fox Show: Let's Murder a Rich White Person
Post by: TVC15 on May 13, 2008, 10:25:24 PM
I am glad we live in a time when the decapitation machine could likely actually be built.
Title: Re: New Fox Show: Let's Murder a Rich White Person
Post by: Eel O'Brian on May 13, 2008, 10:26:25 PM
there's a carlin routine about that, it's pretty funny

we live in a world where, at one time in history, thousands of people gathered to watch midgets fight bears and lions

so, yeah, probably less than ten years, actually

Does this mean we are due for our very own American Caligula soon?

it's a really shitty movie, but i can totally see something like "The Condemned" become reality within the next 5-10 years
Title: Re: New Fox Show: Let's Murder a Rich White Person
Post by: Phoenix Dark on May 14, 2008, 01:32:20 AM
i can't wait for the writer's strike to end. oh wait it's fox