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Originally posted by JVN
Ohh man!
Apparently FOX television is in trouble due to the "low-brow" content of their prime-time programming. In order to counter the effect of such shows as "Paradise Hotel" FOX has been ordered to include more educational programming in their prime-time lineup. (I think they were issued a quota of 1 hour per month).
So...
What does this mean?
FOX is in negotiations with FIRST to do an hour long Simpsons special in which Bart is forced onto a local FIRST team because of his prankster hijinx. I don't know many details but, I'm sure we'll be hearing more about it real soon...
Has anyone else heard more about this? Anyone got a neighbor who works for FOX or something?
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I am suddenly having nightmarish vsions of FOX getting ahold of FIRST and trying to make it more "rating friendly" by either introducing more "demographically appealing "(i.e. model like) team members prone to back stabbing and making out between competitons with the worst performing teams being voted out.
Or to have FOX's overzealous sports department with their over dramatic sports commercials making competitions sound like a battle between good and evil with that melodramatic guy doing the voice over for the commercials " This Sunday in Cleveland, 64 teams battle for it all at the Buckeye regional to see who gets to move on to Atlanta and who is heading for home!"or having Simon Cowell as one of the judges at the competitions belittling teams for poor performing robots. "you call that a robot? I 've used can openers that we're more advanced!"
oy, I have a headache....