We will attempt to present this with very little commentary, because really, what can we possibly say...
Carnie Wilson (She of the Weight Struggles and Wilson Phillips), Maureen McCormick (Marcia Brady) and Bobby Brown (of Whitney and Bobby) are teaming up to run a bed and breakfast together for a CMT show called "Outsider's Inn."
On the show, the characters "lease" a Tennessee hotel called Pigeon Manor. In the real-life-world, the property is actually called the Christopher Place Resort -- which Newsday tells us is not (and never was) for sale. The whole celebs-running-an-inn thing is kind of, you know, just for kicks and entertainment purposes... but we do not expect to be particularly entertained. Also, it's been scientifically proven that reality shows about hotels do not work.
The show premieres this Friday at 9:00 on CMT, and until then, CMT execs: we think you probably have enough time to squeeze in a quickie Tori and Dean: Inn Love marathon. Perhaps you will reconsider this whole thing.
Why, oh why, do American networks rip off countless British reality TV shows like American Idol and The Baby Borrowers, but not what may just be the best British TV show since The Office?
Last night, Hotel Inspector kicked off its third season on U.K.'s Channel Five, and the Guardian's review of the premiere is enough to make us want to pony up for satellite TV.
The show is similar in format to Kitchen Nightmares, where Gordon Ramsay comes in and cleans up the shoddiness of various restaurateurs. Except instead of restaurants it's hotels and instead of Ramsay's screaming, we have Alex Polizzi, (niece of Sir Rocco Forte, of Rocco Forte Collection fame), who has "the manner of a 1940s head mistress," the Guardian says.
We don't know what's more disturbing: The fact that we can't find a clip of the show online or that the hotel Polizzi was assigned to fix up, The Castle of Brecon in Wales, had the same pubic hair in one room's soap dish a full month after her initial inspection.
Honestly, both facts make us writhe with ickiness.
The just-ended first (and final, we hope) season of The Real Housewives of New York City was the latest reality TV show to feature a hotelier and/or a behind-the-scenes look at a hotel.
But if you look at some of the other reality shows about hotels and how they work or who's running them you will see a not-so-startling pattern: reality shows featuring hoteliers and hotels suck.
That may be a harsh statement but let us now present the evidence: Casino, Party @ the Palms With Jenny McCarthy, Inn Love, Welcome to the Parker and Real Housewives of New York City.
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by Jenna
The just-ended first (and final, we hope) season of The Real Housewives of New York City was the latest reality TV show to feature a hotelier and/or a behind-the-scenes look at a hotel.
