It's a very popular position. About 30 million people felt the same way last night. I think Friends has gone way downhill this year. It's pretty tough for a show to maintain its quality creatively in its seventh season. NBC isn't particularly well positioned this sweep because of its problems with regular series.
Food is food.
Besides, the contestants that are acting like drama queens are getting more air time and, since all of these people are auditioning for something or another, whining equals air time and is therefore a good thing. Hate to break it to you, but the more reality programming the networks buy, the fewer repeats you're going to see. And yes, HBO will run all original episodes of a series till its through, but then follows it by a slew of repeats. Not sure which is better. No money, just an all expenses paid vacation on a resort island surrounded by horny hot bods.