Reality TV Raids Web
November 17 -- Reality shows aren't running out of fodder quite yet: A new TV show will troll the Web for all that's amusing, wacky, and beyond belief.
"It's one of those ideas that, as soon as they said it, it seemed like a no-brainer," ABC Entertainment Television Group's co-chairman Stu Bloomberg said of a new show that will highlight funny Web sites on TV.
Bloomberg describes it as the "next generation of America's Funniest Home Videos. It's a very simple idea that's either going to work or not." Uh, he said no-brainer, not us.
Beginning Dec. 8, the network will log on with the reality show Dot Comedy in the 8:30 p.m. slot vacated by the short-timer sitcom The Trouble With Normal, starring Jon Cryer.
Dot Comedy is based on the British series of the same name, according to Variety. It will enhance the Web surfing with field reporting, presumably going into the homes of webmasters around the country.
Brothers Jason and Randy Sklar (from MTV's Apartment 2F and Comedy Central's BattleBots) and Annabelle Gurwitch (from TBS's Dinner and a Movie) host the series, while Katie Puckrick (Oxygen's Pajama Party) reports.
ABC has ordered 13 episodes. The show will also air in repeat broadcasts on co-producer Oxygen's cable outlet. (ABC and Mr. Showbiz are both owned by the Walt Disney Co.)
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