Survivor recently held auditions for its next season. Thousands of people showed up. And so that's the game. It's embarrassment television. The way things are going today, you can come off Survivor and get your own talk show.
Every network wants a piece of the action.
NBC is planning Chains of Love , with men and women handcuffed together for days at a time. ABC will offer The Mole , where one person spies on the others. Court TV is offering Confessions , which airs actual videotaped confessions of real criminals. After all, ordinary people aren't all that interesting. It's not that entertaining.