by Damon Martin
Charlie: “Guys…where are we?”
The line that gave everyone the first clue that “Lost” wasn’t your average every day television drama. Sure, it started out looking like a typical TV show as a man woke up in a jungle, not knowing exactly what happened, and as he wanders through the trees and brush, he discovers that the plane he was riding on just minutes before had crash landed on an island He rushes to the scene to see all of his fellow passengers terrified of what they’ve just endured, and he immediately starts to help and lead those hurt and injured away from the burning debris.
In that moment, J.J. Abrams, Damon Lindelof, and Jeffrey Lieber had captured an audience and many of those same people would follow the tragedy and triumph of the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815 as they found themselves on an island that was anything but a normal tropical paradise for the next six years.
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by Edward Kelly
First, I’m going to take you back—all the way back to the not-so-halcyon days of 2003. Reality TV was just starting to become a truly viable market. Its tropes and clichés were already well worn. Into this scene steps a little show with grand artistic ambitions: Spike TV’s “reality parody”, The Joe Schmo Show
.
The Joe Schmo Show was entirely fake, save for one aspect. Each cast member (all of whom were up-and-coming improv comedians, including a pre-SNL Kristen Wiig) played a stereotypical reality TV contestant type (the catty gay man, the house slut, the grizzled former military guy). The “schmo” of the title was Matt Kennedy Gould, an average person who believed he was part of an actual reality show called Lap of Luxury. Gould didn’t find out the truth until the last episode. He was, understandably, shocked and pleaded with the rest of the cast, “What is going on?!?”
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by Damon Martin
“A true outlaw finds the balance between the passion in his heart and the reason in his mind. The outcome is the balance of might and right.”
The outlaw has always had a home on television. From the gunslingers in the Old West on shows like “Gunsmoke
” to the likeable mobster Tony Soprano in the critically acclaimed show “The Sopranos
“, Americans have always been accepting of things outside the law on their TV screens.
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by Nicole Powers
Make a date with SG Radio this Sunday. We’re excited to have Destin Pfaff and Rachel Federoff from the hit TV series Millionaire Matchmaker in-studio. The Bravo reality show focuses on the staff and clients of the infamous Millionaire’s Club, a Beverly Hills-based matchmaking service strictly for those with extremely desirable bank balances. We’ll get the behind-the-scenes scoop on the on camera love action, and dating advice on how you can land a man or woman with a well-endowed wallet.
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