Like two girls involved in a drunken, dirty cat-fight, CBS has continued its assault on ABC, accusing them of ripping off their reality television show Big Brother (which exploits people largely for the amusement of an apathetic audience) with the ABC reality show The Glass House (which also exploits people largely for the amusement of an apathetic audience). CBS, having none of it, tried to sue them in order to stop ABC from airing the premiere episode of House, but ABC proved resilient (and didn’t particularly care for CBS’ erroneous attitude), and the episode aired anyway, proving that there certainly isn’t enough reality television shows that do the same damn thing.
Normally, this whole thing would be settled out of court or buried in a bunch of legal crap, but CBS had to let ABC know it meant "big business." So with all the wit of a teenager writing in her Tumblr, CBS released a rather snarky press release mocking The Glass House with the announcement of fake CBS show Dancing on the Stars which, as the press release repeatedly states, owes its execution to "nobody at all." RAWR!
CBS ANNOUNCES DEVELOPMENT OF "DANCING ON THE STARS,"
AN EXCITING AND COMPLETELY ORIGINAL REALITY PROGRAM THAT OWES ITS CONCEPT AND EXECUTION TO NOBODY AT ALL
Los Angeles, June 21, 2012 – Subsequent to recent developments in the creative and legal community, CBS Television today felt it was appropriate to reveal the upcoming launch of an exciting, ground-breaking and completely original new reality program for the CBS Television Network.
The dazzling new show, DANCING ON THE STARS, will be broadcast live from the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, and will feature moderately famous and sort of well-known people you almost recognize competing for big prizes by dancing on the graves of some of Hollywood's most iconic and well-beloved stars of stage and screen.
The cemetery, the first in Hollywood, was founded in 1899 and now houses the remains of Andrew "Fatty" Arbuckle, producer Cecil B. DeMille, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Paul Muni, Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, George Harrison of the Beatles and Dee Dee Ramone of the Ramones, among many other great stars of stage, screen and the music business. The company noted that permission to broadcast from the location is pending, and that if efforts in that regard are unsuccessful, approaches will be made to Westwood Village Memorial Park, where equally scintillating luminaries are interred.
"This very creative enterprise will bring a new sense of energy and fun that's totally unlike anything anywhere else, honest," said a CBS spokesperson, who also revealed that the Company has been working with a secret team for several months on the creation of the series, which was completely developed by the people at CBS independent of any other programming on the air. "Given the current creative and legal environment in the reality programming business, we're sure nobody will have any problem with this title or our upcoming half-hour comedy for primetime, POSTMODERN FAMILY."
Ouch. Whether or not ABC will respond with accusations of CBS being a "boyfriend-stealing whore" remains to be seen.
What do you guys think? Is this pointlessly hilarious, or do you think ABC should back down and steal from someone else?
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