NEW YORK (AP) – The Fox network is making a reality show out of the troubled economy. An upcoming series titled, “Someone’s Gotta Go,” lets employees of a small business decide which one of their colleagues will be laid off.
Fox says it has no air date yet for the series, which is being developed by the company behind “Big Brother” and “Deal or No Deal.” Each week, a different company lays off an employee. Fox also wouldn’t reveal the show’s host, which it says is a business consultant who will offer advice to participating companies.
I have no doubt this will be a huge hit. So will they follow this up with “Someone’s Gotta Go, Revenge of the Fired”?
Followed by, “Going Postal.”
That drawing is a better plan than the corporation that let me go had.
People will watch anything. Sick Bastards.
A knockoff of CBS’s show Survivor.
Typical behavior from the no ideas crowd.
Well, maybe a few people who are getting laid off can make some bucks by taking part in the show…
Excellent Educational program for a society whose schools slander capitalism every chance it gets…but never makes clear the consequences of taxing small businesses out of business.
My new nominee for “TV show most likely to end in a mass shooting or suicide.” Previous nominees include “To Catch a Predator.” (Two suicides and one shooting) and Nancy Grace (At least one suicide.)
Really, is there any person less concerned with the results of his/her behavior than a TV exec? Besides a banking exec, of course!
# 7 Li said, “Really, is there any person less concerned with the results of his/her behavior than a TV exec?”
Yep, politicians.
There can be follow-up episodes where the laid off workers get to go back to the workplace and see their H1B replacements performing their old jobs and then confront their former boss and coworkers, and then just to make it interesting, limo to the homes of the writers and producers. Could provide a great tie-in to Cops.
Not only is it a tasteless show that preys on the unfortunate, it also uses improper English. Fucking Savages!
I wish that Fox News was a REAITY show.
oh_OH I’ve got a great idea for a new show, lets let people vote on who at Fox News should be laid off every week “Someone’s Gotta Go,” and we get to pick who. Things to look for in choosing quoting out of context, not being fair or balanced, bad hair, out right lying ect.
Howard Beale: “You’re beginning to believe the illusions we’re spinning here, you’re beginning to believe that the tube is reality and your own lives are unreal. You do. Why, whatever the tube tells you: you dress like the tube, you eat like the tube, you raise your children like the tube, you even think like the tube. This is mass madness, you maniacs. In God’s name, you people are the real thing, WE are the illusion.”
# 11 “You’ll PAY To Know What You REALLY Think” said, “I’ve got a great idea for a new show, lets let people vote on who at Fox News should be laid off every week “Someone’s Gotta Go,” and we get to pick who.”
Not likely. Fox has been mopping the floor with the other cable networks… They are adding employees.
#8 Touché
At least its not “When animals attack”, or “When pets go bad”.
Dumb idea though.
Another block buster idea of FOX…
Just as the liberal loons mainstreamed homosexual marriage, abortion, teenage sex, and mocking of religion…now FOX can mainstream the principles found in the Bill of Rights and Constitution, and show how these became an entrepreneurial paradise resulting in small buisness that employ, elevate, enrich, more than 60% of the population…and how socialism…over regulation, rip off taxation, destroys wealth and impoverishes the poor employed by these small buisness Obama is killing.
#12
The point is being bias makes for more entertaining television and that gets ratings but its not good accurate reporting and with FNC it boarders on outright propaganda that some people -the fox sheep- interpret as the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
rent the movie network its five stars continue to stand the test of time
sorry I’m OT I’ll save my rant for a Fox News story
This “Someone’s Gotta Go” is just another dumb reality show. The people who watch that sort of thing need to either get a life or get a drinking problem.
Lordy, I’m glad I don’t have a TV… how long will it be before they drop people on an undisclosed island in the Pacific somewhere and have them running around killing each other, outside the jurisdiction of any nation? From what I’ve read, it’s just a matter of time, until people get jaded on the other reality shows…
# 16 “You’ll PAY To Know What You REALLY Think” said, “The point is being bias makes for more entertaining television and that gets ratings but its not good accurate reporting…”
Apparently you did read Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism (2008) that showed that FoxNews had the most balanced Election coverage…
Lose.
#18 That troll was a little bit too obvious, Paddy O-Troll. I’ll give it a 4.5 out of 10.
#19 Okay. I’ll take it.