New Reality Series: Amish in the City (I wish I was joking about this)

[LynneSin]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/TV/01/19/tv.amishinthecity.ap/

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- The UPN television network is preparing a reality series that follows Amish teenagers having their first experiences with modern conveniences and outside society, part of a religious rite of passage that tests their faith.

Network executives are informally calling it "Amish in the City," although they said Sunday the title will likely change.

"To have people who don't have television walk down Rodeo Drive and be freaked out by what they see, I think will be interesting television," said CBS chairman Leslie Moonves, who also oversees UPN. "It will not be denigrating to the Amish."

Members of the Amish religious sect dress simply and shun most technology. Rural Pennsylvania and Ohio are home to large Amish communities, where their horse-drawn black buggies appear on country roads.

At age 16, Amish youngsters are allowed to break free of the religion's strict code of conduct to decide whether they want to be baptized as adults. During the period of "rumspringa," a Pennsylvania Dutch term that means "running around," they often date, drink, drive cars and move away from their homes.

The majority return to the faith.

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[VelmaD]

1. To borrow an expression...

from my little brother..."That is just wrong".

Ok, if this isn't one of the signs of the end of civilization...it ought to be.

[Lostmessage]

2. Rodeo Drive?

Hollywood people are going to think that they are filming a movie which they kind of are and the Amish are going to go nuts when they see the women walking down the streets in assless bathing suits.

[izzie]

3. Maybe???????

Maybe that should try a good book to put on.