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April 15, 2004
I'm not sure I see the difference
Yahoo! News - 'Superstar' spoofs 'Idol' 04/14/2004
The WB -- yes, the WB is still on the air! -- has a new degrading reality series in the works where... well:
Dubbed "Superstar USA," skein will take the musical talent competish format and give it a wicked twist by tossing the truly talented participants -- and rewarding the misguided souls who are clueless about being tuneless."These people believe they're the next pop superstar, even though they're horrible singers," Fleiss said of the show, which he's exec producing via his Telepictures-based Next Entertainment. "It's not funny seeing bad singers doing karaoke. This is about people who are clearly delusional and watching them butcher song after song."
It's the next step in public ridicule. My problem is that I've seen enough of American Idol to tell that the winners there aren't such great singers anyway.
Posted by Mac Thomason at April 15, 2004 11:33 AM
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And yet they cancel Angel. sigh.
Posted by: just me at April 15, 2004 03:47 PM
Drives me nuts. The only good thing is that nobody watches the repeats of this stuff. It's a quick fix, so the networks still, occasionally, try to find good scripted TV.
Posted by: Mac Thomason at April 15, 2004 05:24 PM