TLC "MILF Manor"

[Rexedgar]

Same with the history channel, at one time they had actual history programs, but I guess in dumbed down America, the money is in titillating the audience, not educating them. Like you, I gave up on TV programming years ago, with a few exceptions.

I agree mostly, every now and then there is something worth watch on History.


When they, History channel, first came out, I was a big fan. After a while you realize that there is/are only so many photos and videos of history and that they recycle them into different programs.


On a tangent, my girlfriend in the early 90s used to tell me that there was more to life than the History Channel and a six-pack of beer, I disagreed, there were some lonely evenings….

 

[Roadvirus]

https://people.com/tv/tlc-milf-manor-kelle-and-son-joey-talk-shocking-twist/

This is how far Reality TV has fallen. No longer is it enough to have a bunch of cougars chasing men half their age but now they will also be chasing each other's sons.

I get it. Most people have a little voyeuristic streak in them and the appeal of "reality TV" is that it feeds that vice but why do we have to go that far down the rabbit hole? At what point does "edgy" become "pornography"?

Yeah, nobody is forcing anyone else to watch this crap but still, who figures this is a good idea for commercial TV? Worse yet, what comes next?

Just when i thought TLC couldn't get any worse.

I can barely remember when TLC had educational programming.

 

[Rexedgar]

Speaking of tv, anyone else catching the “Balance of Nature“ ads?

What a load of hooey, there is hardly any hard evidence presented. They used to stay mostly on FOX, but lately they are branching out.

 

[Checkerboard Strangler]

I think perhaps that TV air time has become so easily available and so cheap that it has cheapened the so called entertainment being offered.

Hopefully this programming ratings will collapse as badly as MSNBC's and CNN's for much the same reasons.

Actually airtime is becoming more expensive and it is reality tee vee that is what's cheaper to produce.
Scripted programming shot with cinematic style and technique is frightfully expensive.

 

[ElChupacabra]

https://people.com/tv/tlc-milf-manor-kelle-and-son-joey-talk-shocking-twist/

This is how far Reality TV has fallen. No longer is it enough to have a bunch of cougars chasing men half their age but now they will also be chasing each other's sons.

I get it. Most people have a little voyeuristic streak in them and the appeal of "reality TV" is that it feeds that vice but why do we have to go that far down the rabbit hole? At what point does "edgy" become "pornography"?

Yeah, nobody is forcing anyone else to watch this crap but still, who figures this is a good idea for commercial TV? Worse yet, what comes next?

It never had very far to fall.

 

[ElChupacabra]

Actually airtime is becoming more expensive and it is reality tee vee that is what's cheaper to produce.
Scripted programming shot with cinematic style and technique is frightfully expensive.

This 100%. I am curious to see how much more reality TV saturation we get now that most of the big media companies are looking to save on content expense but also retain subscribers. Not long after its inception, it was clear this kind of programming was great filler, but for some, it ended up being what predominated their programming. Think of older linear networks MTV, VH1, TLC, and History which were completely transformed by this content and now offer little else.

 

[Cordelier]

I don't watch any reality TV.. It's mind numbing bad.. But TLC, The Learning Channel??? The FCC needs to make them change their name... Lol

MILF? 1000 LBS sisters? Little people? The whole channel is a joke.. Nothing to be learned there..

I call it The Loser Channel.

I grew up a TV brat... my old man worked at a local affiliate in the 70's. I promise you everything you see on TV is fake. Everything. Reality TV is like military intelligence - it's a oxymoron.

 

[sub1028]

I really detest daytime soapers like Young and Restless, so guess what? I don't watch them. I certainly don't write threads whining about them.

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but yet you post?

 

[Super Chief]

I'm curious which companies pay for sponsorship for a show which basically includes the term "mothers I would love to f----".

Isn't it ironic how tied up Hollywood and left are over using certain pronouns, and not using words like "retarded", or "fa**ot:, or "pu**y". But then have a show with basically the F word in it and the sexualization of women who are mothers?

 

[Super Chief]

I call it The Loser Channel.

I grew up a TV brat... my old man worked at a local affiliate in the 70's. I promise you everything you see on TV is fake. Everything. Reality TV is like military intelligence - it's a oxymoron.

The first reality TV show was Cops. It became popular and found a viewership during the long writers strike in Hollywood. Cops did not need any writing, the episodes pretty much wrote themselves, and there was no money spent on talent either. Just a bunch of novice assistant producers sent out to police stations to ride along with a camera and a mic. Show was pure profit for Fox studios.

Today's so called reality shows are highly scripted and produced. No more single camera shoots out in the real world with real people and events happening. The allusion of it being spontaneous reality is all BS.

 

[sub1028]

The first reality TV show was Cops. It became popular and found a viewership during the long writers strike in Hollywood. Cops did not need any writing, the episodes pretty much wrote themselves, and there was no money spent on talent either. Just a bunch of novice assistant producers sent out to police stations to ride along with a camera and a mic. Show was pure profit for Fox studios.

Today's so called reality shows are highly scripted and produced. No more single camera shoots out in the real world with real people and events happening. The allusion of it being spontaneous reality is all BS.

ya shitting me!! J/K

 

[Gateman_Wen]

https://people.com/tv/tlc-milf-manor-kelle-and-son-joey-talk-shocking-twist/

This is how far Reality TV has fallen. No longer is it enough to have a bunch of cougars chasing men half their age but now they will also be chasing each other's sons.

I get it. Most people have a little voyeuristic streak in them and the appeal of "reality TV" is that it feeds that vice but why do we have to go that far down the rabbit hole? At what point does "edgy" become "pornography"?

Yeah, nobody is forcing anyone else to watch this crap but still, who figures this is a good idea for commercial TV? Worse yet, what comes next?

speechless.

I wouldn't watch that is you paid me to.

 

[Rawley]

I did not know that about the Flintstones' sponsors. With regard to the Jetsons, Judy is still the hottest cartoon chick ever created.

Jessica Rabbit

 

[Rexedgar]

This 100%. I am curious to see how much more reality TV saturation we get now that most of the big media companies are looking to save on content expense but also retain subscribers. Not long after its inception, it was clear this kind of programming was great filler, but for some, it ended up being what predominated their programming. Think of older linear networks MTV, VH1, TLC, and History which were completely transformed by this content and now offer little else.

US politics has become the new reality tv!

 

[Cordelier]

The first reality TV show was Cops. It became popular and found a viewership during the long writers strike in Hollywood. Cops did not need any writing, the episodes pretty much wrote themselves, and there was no money spent on talent either. Just a bunch of novice assistant producers sent out to police stations to ride along with a camera and a mic. Show was pure profit for Fox studios.

Today's so called reality shows are highly scripted and produced. No more single camera shoots out in the real world with real people and events happening. The allusion of it being spontaneous reality is all BS.

I remember one time the regular news anchor called in "sick", so they called Dad on about 40 minutes notice. We were having a summer BBQ at the time, so he hops into the car still wearing his shorts, drives to work and grabs the blazer, shirt and clip-on tie they always had hanging there and sits behind the news desk. Now on TV this desk looks like it's solid mahogany and sits in front of a bunch of 1970's high-tech equipment in the "news room". That was all a lighting trick, though, because the "news room" was about 4 feet in length... and the impressive desk was cheap pressboard and laminate. Anyway, Dad's thing was that he never ended a newscast by straightening his papers. He figured that was too much of a cliché. This time he forgot that, though, and while the end credits were rolling, he straightens the papers on the desk and the whole gives way and collapses around him, and he's sitting there wearing his blazer and shorts.

I'm still surprised to this day that I haven't seen that clip on some blooper reel.

 

[Chomsky]

The top dog in the reality game right now appears to be the "90 Day Franchise".
The 90 Day Fiance roster of shows seem to push a decidedly right wing worldview....not a single couple practices birth control, for instance.
They seem surprised when the girl is suddenly preggers, how on earth did that happen!!

And the couples are becoming increasingly religious, either Islam or some offshoot of fundamentalist Christianity, maybe one Jewish pair, which happens to be very pro-Bibi.
Very low key, but I picked up on it because I don't know a single young couple in real life who is as ignorant about sex and birth control as these clowns.
The script is always the same, man or woman in America is eager to meet foreign exotic, acts surprised when the object of their adoration is nothing like an American and there are suddenly cultural issues.

Cross-cultural dating can be fun & eye-opening - I've often partook. But cross-cultural marriage is only for for the intrepid - you gotta' go long & slow on that one!

 

[Chomsky]

https://people.com/tv/tlc-milf-manor-kelle-and-son-joey-talk-shocking-twist/

This is how far Reality TV has fallen. No longer is it enough to have a bunch of cougars chasing men half their age but now they will also be chasing each other's sons.

I get it. Most people have a little voyeuristic streak in them and the appeal of "reality TV" is that it feeds that vice but why do we have to go that far down the rabbit hole? At what point does "edgy" become "pornography"?

Yeah, nobody is forcing anyone else to watch this crap but still, who figures this is a good idea for commercial TV? Worse yet, what comes next?

Not necessarily my thing (though I haven't seen it), but who am I to fault others' entertainment?

 

[americanwoman]

Not necessarily my thing (though I haven't seen it), but who am I to fault others' entertainment?

Thank you! Some of us happen to adore trashy reality TV.

 

[Chomsky]

Thank you! Some of us happen to adore trashy reality TV.

That's why it's called "entertainment"!

Just as beauty is in the eye of the beholder . . .

 

[noonereal]

I don't watch any reality TV.. It's mind numbing bad..

Same. That said, I think I perceive it as such in a large degree because it's just not a part of my subculture within America.
I do enjoy when reality stars go to jail in teh real world.

TLC, The Learning Channel??? The FCC needs to make them change their name.

Wild right?

They are like Fox News. Totally misleading names.

 

[Checkerboard Strangler]

Cross-cultural dating can be fun & eye-opening - I've often partook. But cross-cultural marriage is only for for the intrepid - you gotta' go long & slow on that one!

The sick joke that is the 90 Day universe is the fact that pretty much none of the prospects ever bother to learn anything about the culture they're about to step into.
And I am sure that is either "engineered that way accidentally on purpose" or just staged that way to portray the "ignorant dumb American" or some combination of both.
Likewise, the men or women who are the foreign targets also do not lift a finger to understand the American culture they are about to be exposed to either.

So what you wind up getting is oftentimes the fish out of water story, clumsy but laced with funny train wreck moments...the suburban cougar who never left Garden Grove, California or Springfield, Georgia, landing in Beirut or Addis Ababba and whining about how they can't get their Marlboro Lights and Diet Coke in the same stall where they are slaughtering goats, or the innocent and naive middle Eastern guy who doesn't understand why his new girlfriend won't submit to his continual stream of Islam Islam Islam Islam Islam Islam Islam Islam Islam Islam and cheerfully become his third wife and make endless babies for him.

Or it's the overweight middle aged battle axe who thinks she's all that and a bag of chips who is upset that the nineteen year old she banged last year in the Caribbean doesn't want to marry her and live together in bliss in the islands because he just sees her as a meal ticket and a Green Card to the United States.

Or it's the cosmopolitan Russian blonde babe who snorts with indignance when she lands in New Orleans and sees a few potholes in the road and gets a whiff of the Mississippi Delta water.
It's not Moscow and it's not the 5-star condo she used to live in, so she's standoffish to her new boyfriend's plans to settle in to the ancestral doublewide 20 miles East of NOLA.

----Overheard in the edit bay...unsanctioned B-roll outtakes from Day One cast member overview where assistant producers sit everyone down to get them synced up with the 90-Day gestalt, which consists of:

"Who do you want to fight with?"

"Who do you want to fight with?" ---- this is the key ingredient of the entire 90-Day universe because it is the key ingredient of every single reality tee vee drama.
There is NO REALITY in reality tee vee.

 

[Chomsky]

The sick joke that is the 90 Day universe is the fact that pretty much none of the prospects ever bother to learn anything about the culture they're about to step into.
And I am sure that is either "engineered that way accidentally on purpose" or just staged that way to portray the "ignorant dumb American" or some combination of both.
Likewise, the men or women who are the foreign targets also do not lift a finger to understand the American culture they are about to be exposed to either.

So what you wind up getting is oftentimes the fish out of water story, clumsy but laced with funny train wreck moments...the suburban cougar who never left Garden Grove, California or Springfield, Georgia, landing in Beirut or Addis Ababba and whining about how they can't get their Marlboro Lights and Diet Coke in the same stall where they are slaughtering goats, or the innocent and naive middle Eastern guy who doesn't understand why his new girlfriend won't submit to his continual stream of Islam Islam Islam Islam Islam Islam Islam Islam Islam Islam and cheerfully become his third wife and make endless babies for him.

Or it's the overweight middle aged battle axe who thinks she's all that and a bag of chips who is upset that the nineteen year old she banged last year in the Caribbean doesn't want to marry her and live together in bliss in the islands because he just sees her as a meal ticket and a Green Card to the United States.

Or it's the cosmopolitan Russian blonde babe who snorts with indignance when she lands in New Orleans and sees a few potholes in the road and gets a whiff of the Mississippi Delta water.
It's not Moscow and it's not the 5-star condo she used to live in, so she's standoffish to her new boyfriend's plans to settle in to the ancestral doublewide 20 miles East of NOLA.

----Overheard in the edit bay...unsanctioned B-roll outtakes from Day One cast member overview where assistant producers sit everyone down to get them synced up with the 90-Day gestalt, which consists of:

"Who do you want to fight with?"

"Who do you want to fight with?" ---- this is the key ingredient of the entire 90-Day universe because it is the key ingredient of every single reality tee vee drama.
There is NO REALITY in reality tee vee.

Haha! You should be screenwriting - this was excellent.

Based upon your description, I'm going to have to watch for sure!

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As to your comments, the producers will only pick those candidates they deem entertaining. I'm sure all the characters are acting for the camera, playing it up. They want the money. Sane & sensible candidates will be passed by. But seriously? Who that's "sane & sensible" puts themselves & their relationship up before the public like this?

 

[Rexedgar]

Haha! You should be screenwriting - this was excellent.

Based upon your description, I'm going to have to watch for sure!

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As to your comments, the producers will only pick those candidates they deem entertaining. I'm sure all the characters are acting for the camera, playing it up. They want the money. Sane & sensible candidates will be passed by. But seriously? Who that's "sane & sensible" puts themselves & their relationship up before the public like this?.

The entertainment and politics genres are converging further!

 

[Checkerboard Strangler]

Haha! You should be screenwriting - this was excellent.

Based upon your description, I'm going to have to watch for sure!

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As to your comments, the producers will only pick those candidates they deem entertaining. I'm sure all the characters are acting for the camera, playing it up. They want the money. Sane & sensible candidates will be passed by. But seriously? Who that's "sane & sensible" puts themselves & their relationship up before the public like this?

A thousand bucks per episode and since that also means the "Pillow Talk" reruns, figure every couple is making around eight thousand a month every season.
So while they aren't getting rich, they're doing okay.
Yeah, I got sucked into it because Karen loves trash TV and this is her fave.
There are some funny moments AND believe it or not, some truly nice REAL people...couples who got together where the marriage actually worked.
The most famous, near as I can tell, are David and Annie Toborofsky.



David met Annie while vacationing in Thailand and after a stormy ninety day runup, they managed to get hitched and their relationship stabilized.
The two of them are very funny and Annie likes to talk about his "Boom Boom Ass" and "Oh my Buddha"...she's flat out adorable and hilarious, and quite the Thai cook.
So, a lot of the couples are train wrecks, some of them are irritating in the extreme, some are dumber than a bag of hammers but then you get the small handful of two or three couples who are interesting and fun to watch.

 

[americanwoman]

A thousand bucks per episode and since that also means the "Pillow Talk" reruns, figure every couple is making around eight thousand a month every season.
So while they aren't getting rich, they're doing okay.
Yeah, I got sucked into it because Karen loves trash TV and this is her fave.
There are some funny moments AND believe it or not, some truly nice REAL people...couples who got together where the marriage actually worked.
The most famous, near as I can tell, are David and Annie Toborofsky.

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David met Annie while vacationing in Thailand and after a stormy ninety day runup, they managed to get hitched and their relationship stabilized.
The two of them are very funny and Annie likes to talk about his "Boom Boom Ass" and "Oh my Buddha"...she's flat out adorable and hilarious, and quite the Thai cook.
So, a lot of the couples are train wrecks, some of them are irritating in the extreme, some are dumber than a bag of hammers but then you get the small handful of two or three couples who are interesting and fun to watch.

I love their new spin off show and seeing more of rural Thailand and the culture. They are definitely one of my more favorites couples on the show. And yes Annie is flat out adorable and David is a very lucky man - which I think he seems to understand.