Let's Make A Baby!

[TechBear_Seattle]

Wannabes queued up to conceive a baby with a stranger live on air for a £100,000 prize. The show was a spoof, but what does it say about reality TV?

It started as a challenge - to come up with the ultimate tasteless reality TV show and test the boundaries of the format.

But in just eight weeks, "Let's Make a Baby" came dangerously close to becoming a real show.

Hundreds of reality TV hopefuls jammed the phone lines when the show advertised for contestants, and TV channels from all over the world offered vast sums of money to buy the rights to the series.

The article continues at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4643056.stm

Crimeny, the depths to which we as a society have sunk. I suppose that since the participants were perforce heterosexual, we would never hear a peep from the Talibangelicals about how "depraved" such as show is.

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Oh man!

[RB TexLa]

2. Wouldn't suprise me it it got picked up

I'm sure "Fighter Jet Flying With The Stars" is due out this summer.

[central scrutinizer]

3. We've had "Dancing with the Stars" and..

"Skating with the Stars". Let's just cut to the chase and have "Fucking with the Stars."

[MindPilot]

4. Leave the baby-making out of it.

Why not just a show called "sex with a porn star/fat chick/milf/celebrity/gay guy/whatever."?

[xultar]

5. I'm sure the Fundies would love that show.

[Heidi]

6. No, thanks. I'm nobody's breeder. (nt)