Entertainment Weekly lists 20 Most Appalling TV Shows Ever
I just had to jump on this one!
EW.com has published a list of the 20 worst TV shows of all time, including photos.
Making the list were some of Trashwire’s favorite trashy reality shows including Britney Spears’ home-made series Chaotic, the Paula Abdul mood-swing-a-thon Hey Paula!, trash classic The Anna Nicole Smith Show, the Fox plastic surgery give away The Swan, the delightfully infamous Kid Nation, the crap-tacular Cheaters, almost the entire family of Flavor Flav dating shows on VH1 as well as nearly ever program on MTV including the often ripped on My Super Sweet 16, my personal favorite reality show Big Brother, the series that made Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie household names (and made me wanna slit my wrists) The Simple Life, and of course the greatest trashy reality show of all time–something that made even us question the fate of the world–Fox’s one-time 2000 event, Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire?.
The list is dynamite, definitely check it out and click on the links above to see our coverage of some of these shows.
I came across your site from your Big Brother blog roll.
I am happy someone else sees the parallels between Big Brother and the Real World. Its not all in my head. I am disappointed that they put Cheaters on the list though! I have not seen it lately but when it did air here, I thought it was great. The concept of the show was simple and they pulled very few punches. You knew what was going to happen, yet you still stuck around to watch.
Regarding the rest of the shows, I have not seen them. I did used to watch The Jerry Springer Show but that was a guilty pleasure like The Maury Povich Show.