Miss America Gets The Reality TV Treatment

One day, everything in life will have a reality TV element. You won’t even be able to withdraw money from an ATM without getting a sneering put-down from a smug man and a nationwide text vote first.

The latest format to get the reality TV treatment is Miss America, although why anyone needs a new reality TV show full of beaming, incomprehensible, batshit women giggling and being ferociously vague about everything when they’ve already got Paula Abdul on American Idol is anyone’s guess.

There’s an argument that beauty paegants like Miss America are
staggeringly out of touch with today’s society. Some people say that
this is because women have become accepted as being equal to men in the last
few decades and that a contest to find the sexiest girl in America
undoes all the good work done by the feminist movement.

Country Music Television thinks that Miss America is outmoded too,
but only because people can’t spend freakish amounts of cash
text-voting on it like they do with American Idol or Big Brother. And
that’s why the Miss America competition has been overhauled this year.

Now entitled Finding Miss America, the Miss America competition will
see all the Miss America finalists living together in a shared house
for a seven-part documentary. According to ABC:

Each episode will focus on a group of contestants as they live
together and compete in preliminary competitions: evening wear,
swimwear, talent and the one-on-one interviews with judges. At the end of the preliminary period, judges will tally their votes
and secretly select eight of the 15 top finalists, who will be revealed
at the live pageant.

As well as this, viewers will be encouraged to vote for their favourite Miss America candidate at the end of each show.

This whole Finding Miss America reality  TV thing seems a little bit
wishy-washy to us, though. Living in a house together isn’t exactly
bleeding edge television, is it? Why not go the whole hog and make Miss
America In Their Eyes, where the Miss America contestants have to dress
up and do impressions of their favourite singers? You know her as Miss
Delaware, but tonight she’s Roy Orbison!

Or I’m Miss America Get Me Out Of Here, where the Miss America finalists
have to spend a week in the Australian outback eating nothing but
kangaroo testicles? Or Being Miss America, a Being Bobby Brown rip-off
where the women wanting to become Miss America take turns to pull hard
nuggets of shit out of Whitney Houston’s arse?

Well, we’d watch it.

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Miss America Turning Into Reality TV Show - ABC

[story by Stuart Heritage]