Viva Las Vegas & A Fist Bump For Chumlee

Apparently, Chumlee is on some TV show named Pawn Stars. Never heard of it, but I got the clip after visiting Expecting Rain, which I have heard of, and which actually once posted an item about a Dylan show in Guadalajara that I wrote a couple of years ago for this blog.

Bob Dylan: Reality TV star.

Unreal...

Discovery: Reality TV Just Got Even Dumber.

From Variety:

Sarah Palin is indeed headed to Discovery Communications -- specifically, TLC -- the cable conglom finally confirmed Thursday morning.
Discovery said that it has acquired global rights to the eight-hour "Sarah Palin's Alaska," which is exec produced by Mark Burnett. Doc will premiere on TLC at an undisclosed later date.
“Our family enjoys Discovery’s networks,” said former Alaska Gov. Palin. “I look forward to working with Mark to bring the wonder and majesty of Alaska to all Americans.”
Documentary series appears to be an unusual fit for TLC, which has moved away from documentary-style programming and now focuses on lifestyle series.
But Discovery itself makes sense -- as the company is behind programming such as the Alaska-set "Deadliest Catch."

JackRabbit Café was unable to confirm if Palin will be appear on camera shooting wolves from a helicopter while Todd drills for oil in the backyard.

(Alaska image: Alaskan Dude on flickr / doctored by Kim Mance)

American Idiot.

I can proudly state that I have never tuned in to a reality TV show. I have no intention of starting now.

From EW's Hollywood Insider:

Sarah Palin, TV producer? Multiple sources confirm that Palin and uber-reality show producer Mark Burnett have been making the rounds in Hollywood this week to pitch a TV docudrama about Alaska. One source called it a “planet-Earth type look” at Palin’s home state. The former candidate for the vice presidency was seen leaving ABC today with Burnett, and an insider confirmed that she met with reality topper Mike Darnell yesterday at Fox (where she and her family ended the day by visiting American Idol. Palin stayed in the green room). She also stopped by CBS today and plans to meet with NBC Universal TV Chairman Jeff Gaspin tomorrow.
When asked about the meeting, one executive quipped, “she’s pitching a sequel to Commander in Chief,” a reference to the ABC drama from Rod Lurie that starred Geena Davis as the first female president.
Palin began her week in Los Angeles by appearing on The Tonight Show, where she told Leno that her previous dream was to be to become a sportscaster – and then she told some jokes. She also took advantage of Oscar week by visiting gift suites.

From The Hollywood Reporter:

Palin and her family would be followed on-camera in the show, which one network executive described as "'Planet Earth' meets Alaska meets her family," referring to Discovery's high-definition nature hit.

Unreal...

Unreal.

From CNN:

Ashton Kutcher -- Twitter's top tweeter -- warned he may pull the plug on his tweeting if the micro-blogging service partners on a reality TV show.

"It's all fun and games until somebody gets stalked," Kutcher wrote in a Twitter posting late Monday.

Variety magazine reported Monday that San Francisco-based Twitter.com had partnered with TV producers Reveille and Brillstein Entertainment on an unscripted show that would be "putting ordinary people on the trail of celebrities in a revolutionary competitive format."

Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said there was "no official Twitter TV show" in the works, but "we have a lightweight, non-exclusive, agreement with the producers which helps them move forward more freely."

Kutcher used Twitter to post a link to a news report about the partnership along with this message: "Wow I hope this isn't true. I really don't like being sold out. May have to take a twitter hiatus."

Stone, who started Twitter just three years ago with co-founder Jack Dorsey, published a blog Monday saying that Twitter is "very open" and that "openness is not limited to the Web or even to mobile phones."

And, he wrote, "Twitter's open approach might have the power to transform television -- the dominant communications receiver worldwide. We're very excited to see where these experiments take us."

A Twitter reality TV show is actually the logical extension of that insipid genre. Let me guess the pitch: a cinéma vérité-style, jangly series of  quick-cut vignettes with OCD/ADD-addled fuckwads who tweet about tweeting with lots of "OMG's!" and "LOL's!"

Ashton Kutcher doesn't like the reality TV idea and might stop tweeting in protest. That's a real loss to the culture.

Is Kutcher the real-life Joey from Friends? I mean, he's the dumb one, right?