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Our culture cannot be so debased as to give a television platform to a woman who pretends to be a Star magazine journalist, one who claims to design handbags, and the third an heir to a Sun Microsystems dynasty that we've never heard of. But, of course, it has. That rumored reality television project, one of the few things that Star's Julia Allison has ever kept secret, has been greenlit by Bravo, we're told by people familiar with the cable network. The show, tentatively called IT Girls, begins shooting this summer.
I suppose congratulations are in order, to Allison, whose pink and perky determination has propelled her to fame of some debased sort; to the blonde one, a veteran of reality shows, Mary Rambin, older sister of the Hud-banging teen star; to Megan Asha, the supposed tech heiress; and to the agent who has shepherded through the project, Jason Fox of William Morris Agency, pictured here with his three angels.
It would be easy to dismiss IT Girls as final proof of a culture gone spongy in the brain, in the final stages not so much of Alzheimers as syphilis. But let's be honest: the concept, three girls are followed by the cameras as they set up an online chat show, a younger version of The View, is positively gripping compared with some of the other reality projects being touted. Julia Allison's obvious ambition provides a dramatic core; she's better at least than the empty socialites around Kristian Laliberte, another group with television ambitions.
Finally, IT Girls promises to take watching-me-watching-you media narcissism to a new plane. A girl who is famous for photographing her every move, sets up a pretend chat show which is itself the focus of cameras from a cable show. So meta! And that will, for a blog that has designated Allison an icon of a new age of self-levitating celebrity, make great entertainment.
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**gunshot**
You left the "SH" out of the title.
Nick - please tell me you're fucking joking.
We should look on the bright side.
In some parallel universe another civilization is reaching its peak.
"the concept ... is positively gripping compared with some of the other reality projects being touted."
Geez, Nick. Talk about damning with faint praise ...
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Why does Megan Asha get to be an inexplicably famous socialite? She has a crooked face. I'm really not one to criticize people's looks, but if we're going to let people be famous for no good reason, we should at least hold them to some kind of standard.
Finally, IT Girls promises to take watching-me-watching-you media narcissism to a new plane.
Not to mention gawker page views!
I've noticed that you guys run pictures of babes with boobs right up against the Kimora ad. A few minutes ago it was the "My Beautiful Mommy" thing. Now this. Cut it out, pls. It's hard for me to tell if I'm looking at Julia's boobs or Kimora's.
Congratulations, Nick!
Well, then I must to pretend to have a reaction to this news.
Aight. Ima be honest. I will watch every damn episode.
I'll await confirmation from the Baugher blogger. Also, we need to arrange funeral services for Scroll_Lock. I'm thinking a wake held at Shark Bar.
@VirusWithShoes: nah, let's just speed up our trip to Virusland
Oooh, now since Project Runway has left for Lifetime, I have yet another reason to completely avoid Bravo altogether!
@VirusWithShoes: We've all hoped the same thing for some time now. We've all been wrong.
Is it possible for a show to have negative ratings? I guess we're going to find out.
Bravo seems to be taking their breaking with Project Runway kind of badly.
IT Girls, much like the ladies on it, is just a cheap rebound which (after one or two disappointing dates and countless drinks) will be cast aside, only to pick up something younger, fresher, and more entertaining.
@Richard: one can only hope it's so bad that it's good.
Jesus fucking Christ, it's already grating beyond belief to read the blonde one's grade-school prose extolling the virtues of her own "fashion sense." I'd rather not see it walking and talking. Will not watch.
And Meghan always looks ready to eat someone.
that settles it. baugher absolutely CANNOT quit! can you imagine the potential goldmine in advertising revenue to be made by a blog that slices and dices julia once she has an even larger platform available to attract even MORE people that find her to be repugnant?
@NeverEnough: 'T'
I'll watch it if they mate with bonobos.
@Richard: Not a surprise, Richard. No offense, but you've amply demonstrated that when it comes to reality tv you're a complete slut.
sex tape?
"Project Run Away"
"Dork Out"
"Top Chests"
"Put-Me-in-a-Stupor Twaddle"
"The Real Fishwives of New York City"
@Bos'un's Mate: Ahahahaha!
I like complete sluts. As long as they come with directions. And one of those Allen wrenches you always lose like ten minutes after you open the box.
@the cajun boy: Dr. Brown warned agains exactly this type of thing. Or fucking your own mother, I forget exactly.
But the tv show can count on one source of consistent coverage: Gawker will be all over it. So, there's that.
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@Unfun: Believe me - the Meghan character on the spinoff will eat someone.
Gawker posts endlessly about her, thus creating interest, leading to a show. Now Richard gets to post endlessly about her show. I smell conspiracy.
@BalknChain: If Scroll_lock is cremated, please remember to bring the marshmallows.
@BitchSetMeUp: Actually not so! I don't watch any of that VH1 crap. Or network reality garbage. I think it's more specific to Bravo and MTV shows.
You have nobody to blame for this but yourself, Gawker.
Although, I'm guessing that was the point all along.
Is the "IT" supposed to stand for "information technology"? Because I think those chicks may have been in my office while I was at lunch. There was a tube of MAC lipstick all smashed up in my DVD drive (shade: Vegas Volt), and someone spilled a pomegranate martini on my keyboard.
I'm lucky - we don't have TV in Scotland. Or senses.
Somewhere, a dog barked.
@Unfun: Is Meghan the one on the right? She looks like the beast in Aliens. Jes needs a little drool.
I will not do a nude scene. Unless it's tasteful. And catered.
I actually feel dumber after reading about it. I can't imagine how good I'll feel after actually watching it.
Can't wait!
@TedSez: Socratic Dialogues?
Absolut Hemlock?
Lobotomists-at-Large?
Although, I am looking forward to the first episode being picked apart and analysed like the Zapruder footage.
Richard will play Kevin Costner.
this seems about on par with the dina lohan show. so, classified pretty much as "society ruining".
@VirusWithShoes: Back, and to the left.
Desperate HandiWipes?
@BettyCrocker: If that's not the face of a fucking serial killer, I'm not sure what is.
But seriously, wasn't this done, and better, by Paris Hilton, the Kardashians, and numerous other shows about socialites who are actually famous, very rich, and entertaining? We'll see Julia Allison not have sex with dorks, Mary Rambin exercise a lot, and Asha sorta sit there and make psycho faces? Blind hatred aside, that doesn't sound at all entertaining. Fail.
As the Prophet Bill Hicks posited, someone probably just asked one simple question before the show was greenlit: "Will there be titty?"
This will be more of an alternate reality show where women get by on their looks and build fame on top of infamy.
All right, a not so alternate reality.
@Unfun: Oh, c'mon! It's gonna be so much better than that! There will also be lengthy scenes of fucking around with tumblr layouts.
Can I be the commenter who expresses outrage at the faux stupefaction on the part of the owner of the blog whose superfluity of posts bemoaning the news-unworthiness of the girl in question helped elevate her to now-dizzying levels of pseudo-fame? That would be meta, too! Or full of irony! Or just stupid! Something!
Direx on how to most effectively stab oneself please.
So here's the thing. As someone who very merrily watched Make Me A Supermodel, I have been extremely impressed by Bravo's ability to highlight Teh Geigh in absolutely any relationship.
So, in the best of all possible scenarios, Bravo edits the show to make the girls look like they're all diddling each other. The girls, in turn, are mortified, but won't make waves for fear of their limelight being taken away. And we get to laugh at them in a way that they're not controlling! Everybody wins!
(Also, I think Asha is the best-looking of the three by a mile. In a gaunt, praying mantis-y kind of way.)
Once again, I am going to have to complain that Julia's plastic surgeryed face does not move right when she speaks. So can she have some job other than appearing on television?
Also, internet version of The View? What a steaming pile of crap idea. This is going to be short, and sweetly trainwreckalicious. Have fun on Celebrity Fit Club One Million!
@moff: In the immortal words of Paris Hilton, "You're hott!" Two t's baby.
@moff: Redundant!
@BettyCrocker: Thank you. I am now cleaning Dr Pepper off my keyboard and monitor. Brillz.
@KarenUhOh: I'll be in the kitchen if you need anything.
But The IT Room is hilarious! I just don't understand where these women are coming from, or why they're worthy of a spin-off.
Best! News! Evah!
Come on. This won't last more than 5 episodes, a ala "One Ocean View" or some such.
Those poor trollops will be tossed aside, having reached the zenieth of their attention whoredom and JA will finally be done.
She is starting give off a real stink of rotteness, but for real this time! Over time one really sees the scars of that plastic surgery, ie: the zombie zone of Allison and her Court of Handmaidens for what it is. Rotting flesh and limbs falling off, etc.
Being an affluencer fucking blows.
Well, if being on Bravo is any indicator,