Fans of undiluted harrowing spectacle, rejoice! David Hasselhoff is about to make your wildest dreams come true.
Possibly. It depends on whether or not your wildest dreams involve remaking Requiem For A Dream to include more scenes of semi-ironic 1980s heartthrobs rolling around and trying to eat a hamburger off the floor without a shirt on while their audibly distressed daughter cries and pleads for them to stop. We know that’s our wildest dream, anyway.
And we have cable network A&E to thank for this wish fulfilment. The network has just commissioned ten episodes of a new reality show starring the hilariously troubled David Hasselhoff. It’ll be so bad it’s good! Or so bad we’ll gradually lose all faith in humanity and end up throwing ourselves off a bridge as a protest against the utter despairing futility of it all! One or the other!
