NBC has plans for a reality show called "Who Do You Think You Are?". The show investigate various celebrities genealogies and learn about "interesting" things that have happened their families past. The exploitative goal being that some lurid secret from a famous person's family history gets discovered and exposed on network TV as their family tree is laid out in front of a national audience.
Wow, an interesting sounding reality TV show, that is on a network, and is not just another derivative of the contest based shows (American Idol), drunken idiot shows (Real World) or the shows that exploit white trash (Wife Swap)...Who woulda thunk it?...Well actually the British. Like many of today's popular reality TV programming (Idol, Wife Swap, Celebrity Fit Club, Dancing with the Stars, etc.) "Who Do You Think You Are" is a remake of a BBC show.
The plan is the have ex-Friends star and douche-chill inducer Lisa Kudrow host. All this means is that I will not watch the show unless I am promised that an outraged celeb will split Kudrow's head open with a machete like a coconut.
That's not true, I will watch because I am really looking forward to the episode where Britney Spears' family tree is revealed and it only has one branch. (wocka wocka wocka).
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