As mentioned on a previous post, we get MTV Germany here and to fill in their programming gaps, they often broadcast older US-market programming. While it was recently reported that MTV has decided to commision more "life affirming" reality programming, we still get the drecks of their vaults, as evidenced by the recent premieres of the 1-year old Flavor of Love 3 and Paris Hilton's My New BFF, two shows that actually make a person stupider as they watch them. Flavor of Love, if you're fortunate enough not to have watched this trainwreck, is a show that has human cartoon/rapper Flavor Flav put 20 skanks... er, fine ladies through a series of increasingly degrading "contests" to see who "loves" him the most, with Survivor like eliminations at the very end of the episode (for better or worse this show set the template for MTV-Network's dating reality shows, which all follow this basic setup). Must not be working that well, since this is Flav's third attempt of finding true love using a reality show where his producers pick his potential life partners-- hmmm, can't possibly see how that could go wrong!
Paris Hilton, talentless heiress/celebutard, has a history of burning through her friends ("BFF" means "best friends forever"), so it comes as no surprise that she needs to recruit and pay equally catty vapid famewhore strangers to be her friend using a reality show with contests and eliminations. While we positively CRAVE English language programming here, watching both of these shows' first episodes made me feel frankly embarrassed-- again, if these contestants are young European kids' only exposure to "typical Americans," it's not doing us Yanks here any favors.
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