TLC, You’ve Done It Again
by M. Lizabeth Currain
Tonight TLC is infotaining America with another episode of My-600-lb Life.
TLC, are you kidding me with this shit? Do you have a room full of morbidly obese people that you keep locked up for when you run out of reality series ideas? What number are we on now? Half-ton Teen, Half-ton Mom, Half-ton Dad, Obese & Pregnant, One Big Happy Family, World’s Heaviest Man, The 650-lb Virgin, Heavily Ever After, World’s Fattest Man (not to be confused with World’s Heaviest!)…and these are just the one’s that I can remember off the top of my head. That’s ten shows. TEN!!! About seriously, morbidly obese people! How are people still interested in this?
Do people actually watch these and go, “Oh hayyyy, I’m fat too! I better change my diet and get some exercise so I don’t end up on a TLC show!” No! We watch these shows because we know we aren’t as large as the people they are exploiting.
Who keeps pitching the same idea over and over again at development meetings? Do they sit around and stare at each other and go, “Well, we haven’t filmed some obese people cleaning out a buffet in six-months, I think it’s time we got back on that.” And everyone just nods their heads in agreement?
I’m beginning to think TLC has a serious fat-fetish. Like this.
Yet another reason I don’t watch television at all! lol 🙂 Bravo! Epic rant! 🙂
I love tv, but this is honestly beginning to be too much. TLC easily has the worst reality programming. Which is quite the feat considering they are competing against networks that have shows about Teen Moms and Housewives.
Is “Lifetime” still any good? It’s been about 6 years since I have had cable. That was one of my favorites. Every once in awhile I can slip in a movie or documentary on hulu, but that’s the extent of it. I don’t have the attention span to watch television anymore, my mind is always somewhere else. 🙂
I actually don’t have cable either. Lifetime will always be good if it keeps making those made for television movies! I spend all my time watching tv shows on Netflix that I used to watch in the 90s.
Hulu has a lot of lifetime movies 🙂 hulu.com