So…turn Gilligan’s Island into a reality show, will you?
I’ve been kinda half-watching this show tonight – haven’t turned the sound up once except out of curiosity to hear how they’d butcher the classic theme song – and it just looks like reheated Survivor leftovers to me.
Then I got to thinking…what other shows would be good reality programming?
And then it hit me.
THE PRISONER.
Somewhere between Amazing Race and Boiling Point. Add psychedelia and metaphors (though probably miserably watered down from the original). There’s already a substantial music library.
I don’t know quite how one would do the Rover thing though. Unless you dress Joe Don Baker up in white sweats or something.
And admittedly, the whole brainwashing/torture/truth serum/gassing people into unconsciousness thing would be a bit troublesome.
But I could almost see it.… Read more
