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Two Truths and a Lie -- TV Edition / Dustin Rowles

Trade News | September 1, 2009 | Comments (22)

Welcome, folks, to another edition of the fastest growing quiz sensation in the electronic void: Two Truths and a Lie! Today’s edition is sponsored by The United Way, the volunteer organization that teaches the youth of today this very valuable lesson: “Get Your Head Out of Your Ass … and Get the Fuck Out of Here.”

Before we tackle this week’s TV Edition, let’s take another look back at our last edition of “Two Truths and a Lie.” And this is a first: A tie! 39 percent of you guessed both that the slasher movie based on MTV’s “My Super Sweet 16” and the Wheaties inspired movie were fabrications. The truth: MTV is, indeed, developing My Super Psycho Sweet 16 . Moreover, there is a Soul Train movie in the works.

Moving on to today’s TV edition, I’ll give you three projects currently under consideration, and you determine which is the fabrication.

A) The pay cable network, Showtime, has also decided to get into the reboot business. It has decided to revive it’s popular “The L Word,” only now it will be a reality series that will follow around six Sapphic beauties as they explore their lives as lesbians.

B) Banking on the expected success of “Glee” this fall, NBC has hired Brad Falchuk (one of the creators of “Glee”) to develop another musical series, only this one is set in an office environment. And it’s being described exactly as you’d expect: “Glee” meets “The Office.” Casting for a pilot began last week.

C) After seeing a script, MTV has decided to order a pilot of a new series based on the 1985 Michael J. Fox movie, Teen Wolf. The television show is expected to be set in a high school and include a romantic angle.

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(Note: If you type “lesbians and werewolves” in Google Images, you get a lot of images of Ellen Page. I went with it.)


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Comments

I voted; but actually? Today's three have me stumped. Thank you, Pajiba, for introducing me to the phrase "shitballs retarded." It is so useful.

Posted by: Jerce at September 1, 2009 11:20 AM

L Word. Like any of those reality bitches could be half as cool as Shane.

Posted by: Julie at September 1, 2009 11:20 AM

The biggest complaint about "The L Word" was that they spent too much time talking and not enough time screwing. As Logo already has a bunch of shows like that, there is no reason for Showtime to host another one.

I know C is true and B is too stupid not to be true.

Posted by: Tracer Bullet at September 1, 2009 11:24 AM

Reality shows are cheap and easy. I wouldn't put it past them to make that a real show. Teenwolf? Yeah, cash in on those vamps and werewolves while they're hot. Glee meets the Office, on the otherhand, is going to take some talent to pull off, so I'm betting that's that fake.

Posted by: BWeaves at September 1, 2009 11:25 AM

Banking on the "expected" success of Glee? No, surely the endlessly mockable disaster of Cop Rock has not been forgotten that quickly. Gotta be the cross-pollination of The Office and Glee that's fake.

Posted by: Wednesday at September 1, 2009 11:26 AM

I WANT B to be true, so that colored my voting.

Posted by: Ian at September 1, 2009 11:28 AM

B. has to be a lie because how would Glee work in an office environment? Not to mention, the musical show that Hugh Jackman starred in for 2 episodes didn't exactly set the ratings on fire, so definitely B.

Posted by: misty at September 1, 2009 11:29 AM

(Note: If you type “lesbians and werewolves” in Google Images, you get a lot of images of Ellen Page. I went with it.)
I cannot easily explain how happy that makes me.

Wow, 54% think the musical office is a lie? Either you all think it sounds like a decent idea, and therefore cannot be real, or my view on reality has once again been skewed by my love of musical theater... hmm...which one, which one...

Posted by: Patty O'Green at September 1, 2009 11:31 AM

COP ROCK!! HA!!!!

Betcha Steven Bochco wants a Panama Canal-sized mulligan on that one.

Raising the Bar! Riasing the Bar! Raising the Bar, yeah, it's a law show!
: Best jingle ever :

Posted by: PissBoy at September 1, 2009 11:35 AM

I feel like it could be a tie between A and B, but I'm going with B. Fox doesn't seem the sort to bank on success, seeing as how they cancel half their shows any given season.

Posted by: Cindy at September 1, 2009 12:21 PM

There's no way that anyone is banking on the success of a show on the Fox network. Even when they have good shows, they are rarely a success. Let's be realistic here.

Posted by: Jeni at September 1, 2009 12:36 PM

I was going to talk about the Glee/Office hybrid being false, but I just found out the Duggars are expecting a 19th child! What the fuck people? Aside from simple mechanics, i.e. hotdog vs. hallway, when the hell do they have any damn time? I mean you know they refer to kids 4-17 by the wrong name about 80% of the time, and there's probably a few kids floating around that they don't even know about-just stop raising the demon army for a little while.

There needs to be musical reality show. Get a bunch of musical theater wannabes together and have them break into song during the course of their day.

Posted by: Mrcreosote at September 1, 2009 12:41 PM

mrcreosote, I could kiss you!! HIRE ME!!!

Actually, they should just broadcast the brilliance of Improv Everywhere, which occasionally involves breaking in to song in random, public places (read: food court).

Posted by: Patty O'Green at September 1, 2009 12:46 PM

Ellen Page was once linked to "Jack and Diane" where she was going to play one half in a lesbian werewolf teen couple. Olivia Thirlby was going to be the other half.

To the sadness of lesbians everywhere, she's no longer attached to the project. Talk on the streets is Allison Pill has stepped in to replace her.

Posted by: Susie Derkins at September 1, 2009 12:47 PM

I can think of two words to reveal B as the hoax: Viva Laughlin. I don't think anyone can forget that gem.

Posted by: Robert at September 1, 2009 1:14 PM

If they really want to "keep it real" on the L-Word they need to cast K.D. Lang/Rosie O'Donnell types, you know the type, they drive Saturns and Subarus and are not to keen on eyebrow trimming.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at September 1, 2009 1:31 PM

You know what would be even better? A reality series based on Teen Wolf. Like, Big Brother but one guy is a werewolf and eats all the other idiots. And if somebody gets the identity of the werewolf, they get to survive the house. But then! They get thrown into the reality series based on "Glee meets The Office" and get eaten by theater nerds.

Posted by: Anna von Beaverplatz at September 1, 2009 1:45 PM

I'll go with B. is a lie because it's the only one that doesn't make me want to slit my wrists...and apparently American TV execs want me dead.

L Word was entertaining in a soapy kind of way, but the reality show is just an excuse for a bunch of Katy Perry types to "play lesbian" for that ever elusive demographic of "horny men".

Posted by: Joker at September 1, 2009 1:47 PM

Crap. I voted for the L Word, but I just read that it's true.

Posted by: Dominique at September 1, 2009 1:51 PM

I did the GoogleImage search and you also get Angela Merkl's cleavage.

Posted by: sunflowerseed at September 1, 2009 2:19 PM

A) The pay cable network, Showtime, has also decided to get into the reboot business. It has decided to revive it’s popular “The L Word,” only now it will be a reality series that will follow around six Sapphic beauties as they explore their lives as lesbians.
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This reminds me that somebody once wrote something like, "90% of American men turn on the TV each night hoping to see two people fuck."

Posted by: , (the commenter formerly known as bucdaddy) at September 1, 2009 11:38 PM

Hah, found it. It was Barry Diller:

"The American public tunes in every night hoping to see two people screwing. Obviously, we can't give them that but let's always keep it in mind."

Posted by: , (the commenter formerly known as bucdaddy) at September 1, 2009 11:40 PM