Just when you thought reality TV couldn't sink any lower...

[Lonemagpie]

Lose your job live on TV!

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Wo...how_Someones_Gotta_Go_Being_Screened_By_Fox__

"The series 'Someone's Gotta Go' will feature small businesses that need to shed jobs to survive.

Instead of the boss choosing who will go, the companies will open up their books to staff and let them decide which of their colleagues will get the chop.

Emotional outbursts are assured as salaries are revealed and feelings laid bare.

The series is being produced by Endemol, who brought Big Brother to our screens"

The mind fucking boggles

 

[miraclefan]

Well...I don't know what to say. This just seams like a real cruel show.

 

[Caleuche]

Surely this breaks some form of either employment or data protection laws? I can't this show going very long without some form of lawsuit.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

I thought this was gonna be about The Cougar!

But they chickened out, it should have been MILF Island with underage boys. Mark my words, one day...

 

[miraclefan]

^Sadly, I see that coming ''SOONER'' rather then ''LATER''

 

[Zulu Romeo]

I still wait for "Celebrity Death Island" - 12 celebs enter, one celeb leaves!

 

[Mistral]

I'm going to give this show all of the attention it deserves-none.

 

[CaptainCanada]

This process seems primed for a wrongful dismissal lawsuit.

 

[wamdue]

But they chickened out, it should have been MILF Island with underage boys. Mark my words, one day...

wouldn't NBC sue them?

 

[miraclefan]

I still wait for "Celebrity Death Island" - 12 celebs enter, one celeb leaves!

Okay! I am ''all'' for THAT! MWA-HA-HAAAA!

 

[Lookingglassman]

I figure reality TV was over when they aired who wants to date a midget.

 

[miraclefan]

^Wasn't that in JAPAN?

 

[FlyingLemons]

I was raging about this earlier in TNZ...

Reality TV is pretty much the lowest form of entertainment, and previously it focused on the exploitation and humiliation of people, but might not have permanently harmed their lives. Now it has actually crossed the line into destroying REAL people's lives (America's/Britain's Got Talent performers do know what they're going in for), and I think it needs to be stopped.

Hopefully a lawsuit will stop this program in its tracks, and someone makes Endemol pay a nice, big fat settlement that makes them think twice about making stuff like this.

 

[Mistral]

^Wasn't that in JAPAN?

Sadly, no. We Americans have to take *sic* credit for that.

 

[wamdue]

^Wasn't that in JAPAN?

Sadly, no. We Americans have to take *sic* credit for that.

dont worry there are plenty of shit reality concepts to go around, one way or the other the whole world is to blame, the UK has produced more than its fair share.

 

[miraclefan]

Have you seen them ''Mexacin'' game shows? nothing but dudes in 'DRAG' and midgets running around!

 

[Small White Car]

Surely this breaks some form of either employment or data protection laws? I can't this show going very long without some form of lawsuit.

Easy. Shut down company A. Everyone is out of work.

Then, TV production company hires all employees for a month while boss is starting up company B. He'll decide who to hire to the new company based on the results of the show.

Of course, I'm assuming that's necessary. The rules for small companies in most states are MUCH different than for large ones. If the boss of 10-person office wants to fire you because he thinks you're ugly or dress funny or something, there's probably not much you can do about it in a lot of places.

 

[wamdue]

Have you seen them ''Mexacin'' game shows? nothing but dudes in 'DRAG' and midgets running around!

dont say that too loudly, ITV might hear

 

[Christopher]

Umm, I never thought reality TV couldn't sink any lower. I was quite confident that it could.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

I remember Charlie Brooker's comedy site "TV Go Home" - great examples of how TV could indeed sink so low. I understood Charlie stopped the site several years ago, as the reality of lowbrow television programming had even at that time evolved beyond parody.