TV Review: A Shot Of Love With Tila Tequila

Have you ever watched TV and had that slight feeling of déjà vu? It tends to happen a lot on quiz shows. Be it from the same old sob story about why people need money or the dire way creators come up with a new show.

It now appears that MTV has an equally strong mission to turn its viewers' brains in to mush. And it does this by making one show and then remaking the balls off it in a billion exact same ways. So we had another 'new' programme debuted on our screens last night. We were introduced to MTV’s latest offering, A Shot Of Love With Tila Tequila.  

The most recent offering we’ve had from MTV was the third version of Jackass aka Rad Girls. While they were going for female equality to try and show that women could do wacky stunts too, it was just wooden, cheap and fake.

No matter, the executives at MTV were probably just glad they had half-an-hour of programming filled and, ironically, didn’t have to play any music videos. 

So what new and exciting programming could be thrown at us this time? Amazingly, nothing new. The basic premise of A Shot Of Love With Tila Tequila is to find the model/ overpopulated MySpace friend/ general cocktease a partner. But of course it wouldn’t be complete without a crazy twist somewhere along the line. You see, Tila Tequila has now declared herself to be greedy – or as it's better known, bisexual.

Over the next God knows how many weeks Tila Tequila will eliminate various men and women until she finds apparently love. Will it go smoothly? Of course not, there are sure to be bumps along the way.

Anyone thinking that they’ve seen this before? That’s because you have. Last year and the year before that, comedy hip hop legend Flavor Flav from Public Enemy - who seems to have a thing for oversized clocks that make him look like a twat - did pretty much the same show.

Here, lots of women who wanted him only for his money battled it out to capture his heart. It obviously worked so well that not only has he done the same thing twice, but he’s giving it a third try later on this year. Ahh, true love. 

Honestly, do these people think that love grows on TV programmes? They’ve obviously not hung around with some of the people hecklerspray knows. For £2 and a bag of chips, a girl called Tracy who works in our local pub will literally be yours. Forget your champagne LA lifestyle, she’ll be happy as long as the money is shiny and the food is salty. 

So what can we expect for the next few weeks while the programme is on? Hot lesbo action? Fighting? Tears? Arguments? Fights? Pointless challenges and people trying to hard?

More than likely, but judging from the first episode it is just utter gash. Why should we care about the poor plight of some supposed model with an army of two million plus friends? We have friends on our MySpace, but none ever showed up to our house when we put that bulletin out about free cake and fizzy pop at our place. We had fun, but felt the effect after too many sugary snacks. 

If you are the sort of person who has nothing better to do, then watch this show. It may damage your brain cells and make you loose a few IQ points but you might be mildly entertained for a few moments. More than likely this sort of shit will be lapped up by the celebrity-hungry public and force some sort of crazy spin-off.

Be it a second series after the first love didn’t quite work out or from one of the contestants whose only aim was to get some fame so he/she could get the privilege of opening a McDonalds somewhere in America.