'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition' wants people like, long-lost siblings
that unknowningly fall in love, commit ***** and end up having
child/children of ***** and other freak show charity cases in order to
score MONDO ratings! :-D
Well, how DARE some typical White, ATHEIST American married couple with
2.4 children living in a modest house with both parents working only
(((A))) job each to makes ends-meet audition for EM: HE, taking away a
position on the show reserved for some Chris|tian divorced mother who's
only-child 8-year-old son who got caught in the middle of a bitter
custody battle in which the dad kidnaps the son, takes him to a motel
room, pours gasoline all over the boy and the hotel room and sets the
room a-blaze with the mentality "If (((I))) can't have him, NOBODY can!"
so the kid's a burn victim?! That's just RUDE! :-D
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http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0327062extreme1.html
ABC's "Extreme" Exploitation
Makeover show loves sick kids, cancer patients, hate crime victims
MARCH 27--Not content with humdrum stories of poverty, heartache, and
distress, the producers of "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" have
compiled a creepy wish list of woe for the next season of the hit ABC
television series, The Smoking Gun has learned. In an e-mail forwarded
earlier this month by an ABC employee to network affiliates, the
program's casting agent details the exact kind of tragedies and rare
illnesses being sought by the Top 20 show. Families featured on the
program have their often ramshackle homes renovated for free by a
platoon headed by handyman/heartthrob Ty Pennington. The show is
maudlin, tug-on-your-heartstrings television, "Queen for a Day" with
finish carpentry. Based on the ABC e-mail, it appears that victims of
hate crimes and violent home invasions and families coping with the loss
of a child killed by a drunk driver make for good television. And the
show would also absolutely love to feature those battling skin cancer,
Lou Gehrig's disease, and muscular dystrophy. Oh, and families with
multiple children with Down Syndrome would be ideal, whether the kids
are "either adopted or biological," the e-mail notes. And, shooting the
moon, the program's "family casting director," Charisse Simonian, would
love to locate a kid suffering from Progeria, the rare condition that
causes rapid aging in a child (for those unaware of Progeria, the ABC
e-mail helpfully describes it as "aka 'little old man disease.'") As if
that terrible affliction weren't enough, Simonian is also on the hunt
for a child with congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis. "This
is where kids cannot feel any physical pain," she notes. But the hunt
for a young victim--who will likely die before 30--will not be easy.
"There are 17 known cases in US," she writes, before chirpily adding,
"let me know if one is in your town!" Such spirit in the face of
tragedy. The March 10 correspondence was written by Phinel Petit-Frere,
a network representative based in New York, who passed along the
makeover show's wish list to network affiliates in the Southeast. The
affiliates were requested to help in locating prospective families for
the series, which finished eighth in last week's Nielsen ratings. When
contacted by TSG, Petit-Frere said he only forwarded the memo on
Simonian's behalf and directed other questions her way. (1 page)
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In case you didn't know, I was making fun of 'Passions' (NBC) and the TV
movie-of-the-week 'David' (Matthew Lawrence) in my post.
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