Dancing On The Stars, This Fall On CBS!

Courtesy of Alan Sepinwall's blog…

Short version: ABC's new reality show "The Glass House" is more or less a direct ripoff of Big Brother, so CBS sued about it and lost.  In response to "Glass House" bombing in the ratings the other night, CBS put out a fantastic troll of a press release.  Game, set, match for CBS.  I love it when multi-billion dollar companies are childish and petty….actually, wait, I don't love that when it leads to harming society, I just love it when that pettiness manifests itself in funny press releases.  Ironically, should the Tupac hologram technology ever be used for a Beatles reunion at the Grammys, CBS actually will be dancing on George Harrison's grave.

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.”


        “After all,” the spokesperson added, “people who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.”