Greatness

My friend Kelli sent me an email yesterday with the following link. According to People.com:

Old rivalries and dramas from past seasons of The Bachelor and The Bachelorette will get new life this year as ABC is creating a spin-off show in which former contestants will live and compete together in a Big Brother-style house. The show, titled Bachelor Pad, will bring back 20 memorable contestants from the previous 13 Bachelor and five Bachelorette seasons, according to The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed blog. It’s expected to premiere in late summer.

“All these people have been friends, been enemies, they date each other and bring all this great backstory to the show,” says executive producer Martin Hilton. “It seemed like there was an opportunity to combine that world with a new competitive reality show.” The contestants haven’t been revealed, but Hilton said top players and former winners are on board. The show will feature various challenges, some inspired by incidents from past seasons. Contestants will be booted from the house at the end of each episode. And Bachelor and Bachelorette host Chris Harrison has signed on to emcee.

In the words of Chandler Bing, "Could I BE more excited!?!?!" I love this idea and I love that our host Christ Harrison is on board as well. While I've never been able to get into Big Brother I'm thinking this will be different because:

1) We'll know the history on these people (unless they choose people from seasons 6-9 when I boycotted show thanks to the terrible picks for Bachelor - uber tan Byron the fisherman? Jerry O'Connell's brother? No thanks...)

2) They have such a large pool of crazy people to choose from. Crazy people = good TV.

3) "Some of the various challenges will be inspired by incidents from past seasons." Love this! Just think - if Wes is on board there could be a karaoke contest, with Tanner P you could do a toenail painting challenge, or for Channy there might be a 'come up with the dirtiest phrase in a foreign language' contest.

4) The world really needs another competitive reality TV show, don't you think?