{"id":23990,"date":"2018-12-14T08:29:56","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T14:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=23990"},"modified":"2018-12-13T09:58:48","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T15:58:48","slug":"reality-television-show-concept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/14\/reality-television-show-concept\/","title":{"rendered":"Reality Television Show Concept"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So while tooling through IMDB yesterday, I came up with a reality television show concept: <em>Celebrity Crush<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, it would take actors and actresses, often from older movies and television shows, and have them call upon people who expressed having a crush on them back then.<\/p>\n<p>The producers would scour social media and blog posts looking for harmless admissions that so-and-so liked that actor\/actress from that movie from back in the day, would run a background check on the poster, and would then look to get that actor\/actress to call upon the non-celebrity to&#8211;well, it would depend, I suppose.  Go on a date?  Get together and talk about the movies and the times in the old days?<\/p>\n<p>Say, for example, someone remembers fondly Judie Aronson from <em>Weird Science<\/em> and <em>American Ninja<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<table border=0>\n<tr>\n<td><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/judiearonsonthen.jpg\"><\/center><\/td>\n<td><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/judiearonson.jpg\"><\/center><\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td halign=\"center\"><center><em>Then<\/em><\/center><\/td>\n<td halign=\"center\"><center><em>Now<\/em><\/td>\n<p><\/center><\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Producers could find someone who thought she was cute in those films and get them together to talk about where they were then, what they&#8217;re doing now, and whatnot.  It would be a bit of a Where Are They Now? with the chance for the celebrity to promote new projects (new movies or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockitbodypilates.com\/\" target=\"_new\">gyms<\/a>).  The show could catch some of the non-celebrities by &#8220;surprise&#8221; when the celebrity crush just shows up.  The producers could vary the format from &#8220;dates&#8221; to just discussions and reminisciences (which is not how the real word is spelled, but some of us have nostalgia down to a science, so it seems fitting).  They could vary the ages\/eras of the celebrity to keep it interesting.  I&#8217;m telling you, <em>it could work<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d watch it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m exaggerating there.  I don&#8217;t watch much television, especially not reality shows or celebrity news magazine types of things.<\/p>\n<p>But I would happily accept a junior producer credit for writing this blog post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So while tooling through IMDB yesterday, I came up with a reality television show concept: Celebrity Crush. Basically, it would take actors and actresses, often from older movies and television shows, and have them call upon people who expressed having a crush on them back then. The producers would scour social media and blog posts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23990"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23999,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23990\/revisions\/23999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}