No Reality Series
It’s been a while since I posted any interviews. Sorry about that folks.
According to Weird Al is a Regular Nerd, Al had been approached by some TV producers looking to do a reality series on him. Unfortunately, Al declined saying that his off-stage life probably wouldn’t quite as interesting. Ah well, even though us hardcore Al fans would LOVE to see more of him on TV, I was pretty tired of the whole “reality” fad from the beginning.
Of course, the new fad now is giving celebrities the role of hosting game shows. Which leads to the next interesting bit of the interview…
Another suggestion made by producers involved a type of game show in which teams of contestants would make parody videos every week.
“It sounds like a nightmare,” Yankovic says. “I couldn’t even go into all the reasons why that’s a bad idea.”
Ah, remember that game show William Shatner hosted that only ran for about four weeks? I never saw it, but I *DO* remember seeing a commercial that promoted it as, I kid you not, “Shatastic”. Wow, couldn’t have described it better myself.
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July 12th, 2007 at 09:49 pm
Speaking of reality TV and Game shows…
On the World Series of Pop Culture tonight (july 12) on VH1, there was a WHOLE CATEGORY dedicated to Weird Al songs! It made me so mad that they didn’t get them all right like me. lol
Anyway, they’ll play re-runs. Check it out!
July 13th, 2007 at 08:52 am
I saw that too. How cool was that?!!
July 15th, 2007 at 01:54 am
Unfortunately I am living in Germany. You miss alot of good Yankovic Stuff here … I’m just glad I was somehow able to obtain his albums … He is just brilliant … but not many speak english as good as I do - especially when it comes to music. If I happen to someday have any chance to see him live I surely will! That would be worth very much to me!
Greetings from Germany
D.J. Guss