6/15: Why there are huge walls built around a subdivision in Kennesaw
The wall in Kennesaw on Sunday, June 14, 2009. CREDIT: Helen Kim/Special to ajc.com
In many TV shows and films (think “American Beauty” and “Weeds”), suburbia is symbolized as a prison of surface homogeneity, over-fertilized green lawns, gas-guzzling SUVs and kids on swing sets.
CBS is about to shoot a reality show tentatively called “Block Party” in Kennesaw that literally turns suburbia… into a prison.
Earlier this month, the network built 2,000 feet of stark 20-foot tall walls around eight homes in a Kennesaw subdivision, walls that resemble the outside of a maximum-security penitentiary — minus the barbed wire. There are even off-duty Kennesaw police stationed on the road to keep traffic moving.
Starting June 15, eight families in those homes will be trapped in their own homes for about three weeks, blocked by said wall. If they leave, they relinquish the chance to win an unspecified large cash prize. And given that this is CBS, expect the prize to be well into the six figures (but less than one million dollars.)
The wall literally abuts onto one of the homes. CREDIT: Rodney Ho/rho@ajc.com
During those three weeks, the families can only interact with each other while taking part in reward and elimination challenges, along the lines of sister CBS shows “Big Brother” or “Survivor.”
Jay Bienstock, a producer who has worked on “Survivor” and “The Apprentice,” said the concept is that suburban families lead such rushed, disparate lives, they don’t spend enough time together. This show will force them to do so. Dad can’t go off and play golf. The kids can’t go to ballet class or karate lessons. Mom can’t hit the mall.
He wouldn’t reveal what the challenges might be but they’ll be themed to suburban life — with a twist. “This isn’t something we are going to do, but it could be like pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey with 200 real donkeys,” he said. (PETA might not be cool with that idea.)
Bienstock said it took months to find eight families on continguous properties willing to say yes to such an incredibly intrusive reality show. (The network is not making any of the families available to talk, especially since it hasn’t even started taping.)
They checked several cities, going door to door in suburban areas until they found this little alcove. The city of Kennessaw, he said, cleared it because 220 workers (mostly local) will be in the area for several weeks pumping money into the local economy.
The subdivision worked well for two major reasons: it’s very generic suburbia, making it relatable to the mass public, and the families are surprisingly diverse. “It could be Anywhere, USA,” Bienstock said. And while many suburban areas experience high turnover and lack community cohesion, these eight neighbors knew each other fairly well. And since the homes were build just a decade ago, most are the original home owners and all have kids of various ages.
The homes are valued in the $200,000 to $250,000 range, according to Zillow.com. A home up the block is on sale for $244,900. They’re pretty typical two-story suburban homes in the 2,500 square foot range. Most have four bedrooms, three baths with faux brick fronts.
The families themselves are classic middle class with folks working in sales, repair work and video production. “It’s like we hit the lottery,” he said, though he admits he doesn’t yet know what sort of fireworks may come out of sequestering these families for so long.
He isn’t sure when CBS is going to air the show or how many episodes will air, though it will probably be about seven. The fall lineup looks solid so this may be either a mid-season replacement/fill in or a show targeted for summer of 2010. The host will be Matt Rogers, who finished 11th on “American Idol” season three but showed more hosting skills than vocal skills after he left the show. (He hosts “Really Big Things” on Discovery Channel.)
The foreboding walls are typical Hollywood. They may be made of reinforced steel and may look solid, like those rocks the Six Million Dollar Man used to pick up, but one worker said the exterior is like cellophane and could be easily damaged with one swift punch.
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123 comments Add your comment
RoHo Fan
June 14th, 2009
6:45 pm
Can’t wait to see the drama unfold during the show! Great article and follow up to the tax credit / incentive piece.
Jack
June 14th, 2009
8:33 pm
I wonder if they have any idea what a good thunderstorm can do to those flimsy walls?
JimC
June 14th, 2009
8:53 pm
This sounds like a really stupid idea, but I love Survivor, so who knows if it will work.
atl1000
June 15th, 2009
4:25 am
I’ll be watching ‘big brother’, thank you
Benton
June 15th, 2009
7:29 am
i know there’s a wall in mableton.
Stu Dio
June 15th, 2009
7:40 am
Houses valued $200-$250K, 4 bedroom, 3 bath. Parents can afford to stay away from work for the duration. Yeah, right — really typical American families. How would anybody be stupid enough to buy into this premise? Simply an excuse to generate some phony and flashy confrontations (I predict that at some point there will be some allegations of infidelity, drug abuse, domestic violence).
When will programmers come up with something truly original, or be willing to go back to tried and true formula of the past, i.e. THE MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW, FATHER KNOWS BEST, THE CAROL BURNETT SHOW? Oh, no! They have to develop dramatic, new, ground-breaking concepts! Thank goodness we have cable, the radio and the Internet for entertainment.
Good luck, Kennesaw. Probably the most disasterous thing to happen there since the Great Locomotive Chase.
chryco
June 15th, 2009
8:04 am
I don’t own a television, but I will probably buy one just to watch this show. The photo above reminds me of my days growing up in Berlin during the 1960’s.
just thinking...
June 15th, 2009
9:33 am
Somebody thought it was a good idea to surround a neighborhood with walls for a “reality tv show”, and then pick a town where owning a gun is mandatory?
live here
June 15th, 2009
10:00 am
I predict that there will be 8 houses for sale when this is all said and done. Sad since these homes were once good friends enjoying dinner on the driveway most nights. A warning to anyone thinking of getting neighbors together to do this…. check with those not participating. They are the ones that are having to deal with this mess while trying to get to and from their homes everyday. So much for our summer! It is a real inconvenience. What once took 90 seconds to get to the front of the neighborhood now takes up to 10 minutes. Especially when you have the fools coming to look that go 3 MPH while on their phone and then do a U turn in the middle of the street as soon as they pass the walls. There was no information about what was actually going to happen as far as set up and road blocks, just a short, guess what’s going to happen in your neighborhood letter on the door the week before it was all to start! URGH…… Where is the HOA when we need them….
PTC DAWG
June 15th, 2009
10:37 am
Another stupid reality tv show.
C.M. Thornton, III
June 15th, 2009
11:02 am
I wish someone would build that wall around my neighborhood. It would be a great safety feature and probably do wonders to keep the “urbanites” out of the neighborhood…
Patrick
June 15th, 2009
12:19 pm
Glad to know all these families found ways to take off from work to do this stunt. Suspect many of them will found out at the end that they don’t need to go back to work because their jobs evaporated.
Yeah, good luck with that.
Gandalf, the White! (!)
June 15th, 2009
12:53 pm
DUMB as a box of hammers!
Marsha Bond
June 15th, 2009
1:29 pm
C. M. Thornton, III, you sound like a racist pig!
E-Roll
June 15th, 2009
1:48 pm
C.M. Thornton, I know what you mean. Ever since gentrification has started in Atlanta where I live, I haven’t felt safe with all of those dangerous looking white kids riding around my neighborhood.
Southern Gent
June 15th, 2009
2:06 pm
Looing forward to seeing what the show is all about. Thorton, you’re not a Keith Urban fan? Urbanites can be my neighbors any time!
Mr. WhatDoIKnow
June 15th, 2009
9:37 pm
Marsha Bond, E-Roll, I will be glad to let you have the “urbanites” living in the woods on DeKalb County school property across from me. They really bring down the neighborhood and are a bunch of theives stealing from the neighborhood and the local stores. When you get tired of them, see if you have better luck getting your county and ICE rounding them up and sending them back to Mexico where these illegals belong. If you live in DeKalb County, you are SOL because no one in government will assist the citizens with this matter.
Dragon
June 15th, 2009
10:44 pm
What stupidity!
How about building a wall around th CBS network…and just leaving it there?
nedclark
June 15th, 2009
10:58 pm
Can anyone say “The Truman Show”?
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Jeff
June 16th, 2009
9:55 am
I’ll be interested if it degenerates into cannibalism. Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Set_(TV_series) to see what I mean. But seriously though, not very typical households.
Mike
June 16th, 2009
9:55 am
How stupid, really is TV that much a part of you lives that you actually care about this garbage? “Reality TV” uh? It’s all staged by the producers for ratings and you seep gladly participate by giving them the ratings. Get out, get a life, go do something. Stop being a zombie to the networks and advertisers for one in your miserable pathetic lives!!!!
Patrick McWilliams
June 16th, 2009
10:01 am
More stupidity from the network that canceled “Jericho”, the finest show on TV in decades. I can’t stand the premise of elimination programs (”Survivor”, “Big Brother”). “Jericho” posed the idea of people forced to cooperate for mutual survival. How about a show based on that bizarre concept. Or maybe just bring “Jericho” back?
Michael W.
June 16th, 2009
10:01 am
Welcome to GUNTOWN USA! Should have chosen a town where the owners don’t have to own a gun. Who’s gonna keep them from killing each other after 2 days if they run out of beer?
Mike
June 16th, 2009
10:14 am
Dragon, That’s the best idea I’ve heard yet!!!!!!
AnnieR
June 16th, 2009
10:35 am
Live Here, I feel for you…what a mess in your neighborhood, it would totally suck. I’m glad my neighbors are smarter than yours….
Chris
June 16th, 2009
10:35 am
To anyone considering watching this show:
PLEASE take the time you would set aside for watching this show and spend it outdoors with your family doing something other than shopping. If you’re interested in the lives of families living in an insular community, walk around your neighborhood and meet your neighbors. If you like watching other people compete in games, go to a local sporting event. This show is worthless along with every other “reality” TV show. Participate in reality, I beg of you.
While you might think it isn’t my business to ask you for this favor, it is my business because your passive receptivity to television and advertising is harming the country I love so much. You have something to contribute to the richness of the reality around you. Please do everyone else the favor of sharing yourself with us. You have value, and that value is being squandered if you waste even 15 minutes of your life in front of this show. And if you don’t care about anyone around you, I guarantee your overall satisfaction with your life will increase many times over if you drop most of your TV viewing and do something. Your depression will fade and life will develop some meaning for you. Try it for a week. See how you like it.
sinsir
June 16th, 2009
10:36 am
Patricia McWhiney, look ladie, Jericho was an abomination of terrible acting, lazy writing and blind casting. You are now disqualified from any opinions for the duration of this comment board.
Big Fish
June 16th, 2009
10:36 am
Stu, I hate to break it to you, but those shows weren’t that great. I hate reality t.v. as much as the next guy, but we really need not see old stuff regurgitated. That’s what got us in this mess to begin with.
michael
June 16th, 2009
10:44 am
i am waiting for our own Berlin wall, to keep Americans from leaving. with obama came full government control ! if you haven’t noticed ? banks, large corporations, medical, and freedom of speech are next . how can a 20years of hate america ! evil whites ! terrorists as friends, get elected ? he doesnt even show his birth certificate ! now could a republican or conservative get away with this ? ell no !
Billy
June 16th, 2009
10:48 am
Looks like the walls we put up in Baghdad, Iraq, to protect the people from themselves… I hope these walls aren’t starting a trend here in good old USA…
Barry
June 16th, 2009
10:51 am
Can You Say…BORING!
Velveeta
June 16th, 2009
11:01 am
Sounds awful.
Chuy "the wiz" Henderson
June 16th, 2009
11:02 am
This strikes me as being little more than some Hollywood (or NY) hipsters cliche bigotry working it’s way onto the TV screen. I’ve spent too much of my life with people who believe that the suburbs are “prison” b/c the homes are well kept and the retail establishments include chain stores and restaurants. I’ve lived in both Manhattan and Los Angeles, & I’ve spent plenty of time in places like Miami, Austin, Las Vegas, Atlanta, San Francisco, and Dallas. Though naturally each of these places has its “charm,” there’s no place like a good suburb to raise a family. I’d like to see the writers, actors, production crew and executives of an average TV show walled into a TV studio for a month. Then we’d see what kind of miscreants are serving up our nightl cultural stew.
Rey
June 16th, 2009
11:13 am
Main reason I DON’T watch any of the alphabet networks, specially in the light of the John & Kate Plus 8 fiasco.
I’ll stick to THe Discovery Channel, at least “Mythbusters” get to blow stuff up. XD
Smilinjack
June 16th, 2009
11:20 am
How stupid!! People are turning into blooming idiots with all this so called reality crap.
ClumBaby
June 16th, 2009
11:24 am
I can’t wait! Matt is so SEXXXY!
Mike R.
June 16th, 2009
11:27 am
Truman Show was meant to be dark humor, not suggestion.
Heather
June 16th, 2009
11:37 am
Good to know a little more about the show! I actually pass by that neighborhood every day. I was curious what was going on behind that wall! I will definitely be watching!
mike
June 16th, 2009
11:43 am
Here’s a plug for the book titled “The Mirror Effect..How Celebrity Narcissism is Seducing American” by Dr. Drew Pinksy.
In it he covers the horrible influence the “media/entertainment industry” is having on our lives. How it takes advantage of..uses and abuses those folks needing/desiring to be in the media spotlight. Encouraging over the top drama and conflict for ratings. Conflict that is resolved with verbal and or physical altercations purely for the audience entertainment.
The result…creating a generation of dysfunctional narcissits hardwired for constant over the top drama in all facets of their relationships
maggie
June 16th, 2009
11:44 am
where in the hell is Kennesaw? and why do we need to know about it?
Sam
June 16th, 2009
11:46 am
I HATE reality shows. There is nothing real about being walled into an area and interact only with your neighbors for 3 weeks. Not to mention homes valued at $250,000ish is not the value of the majority of people’s homes. Good luck. I’m not going to watch.
Sandy St.John
June 16th, 2009
11:51 am
People will let someone else almost do anything to control them as long as they get either in the newspaper, on the internet or on TV.
Don’t people value their freedom anymore!!!???
jim
June 16th, 2009
11:54 am
Georgia used to be nice, please get the lock of morals of California and New York out of here!
Irv_Fartstein
June 16th, 2009
11:55 am
I’m a suburminite get me out of here!
Rod Mann
June 16th, 2009
12:02 pm
Further proof that “reality TV” is total crap as are the networks that broadcast such dribble.
Bob
June 16th, 2009
12:12 pm
Twenty years ago I never would have guessed that the people of today would be willing to sell their dignity for so little a price. I certainly won’t be participating by watching this pathetic little piece of tripe. If there is anything more pathetic than someone willingly giving away whatever shred of dignity they had for so little a price as a few minutes of fame, it’s the people who are watching them do it on TV.
I refuse to participate.
Yewbee
June 16th, 2009
12:15 pm
The Truth will set you free – but Truth is hate to those who hate the Truth
Yewbee
June 16th, 2009
12:16 pm
I see the censors are hard at work!
bitterweed
June 16th, 2009
12:25 pm
Be still my heart..I’m so excited I’m about to puke. What is wrong with people today, they have no life? We are given a banquet of garbage by television and you eat it like hogs..you must be braindead. Who cares, are you voyeurs? I don’t give a hoot about Jon & Kate, the Duggars, one more dwarf family, one more housewife makeover or trade..and a whole litany of other stuff that they serve up as entertainment. You’re being cheated..don’t you even care??
unplugged
June 16th, 2009
12:57 pm
Dumb people go on these shows. Even dumber people watch them. This is why I don’t have a TV and can’t seem to find a good reason to get one.
Mike
June 16th, 2009
1:01 pm
EXCELLENT IDEA CHRIS!!!!!!!!!
“”"”Chris
June 16th, 2009
10:35 am
To anyone considering watching this show:
PLEASE take the time you would set aside for watching this show and spend it outdoors with your family doing something other than shopping. If you’re interested in the lives of families living in an insular community, walk around your neighborhood and meet your neighbors. If you like watching other people compete in games, go to a local sporting event. This show is worthless along with every other “reality” TV show. Participate in reality, I beg of you. “”
KILL YOUR TV!!!!!!
sp
June 16th, 2009
1:13 pm
Living in the neighborhood, it’s also rumored that they will be cut off of all internet, cable and phone access. The premise sounds a little boring, but I’ll watch just to see what kind of neighbor I’m living next to.
@unplugged et. al that don’t own a TV – why are you reading/posting to a radio and t.v. blog?
a. men
June 16th, 2009
1:18 pm
I won’t watch.
sue hoffman
June 16th, 2009
1:35 pm
Surprisingly diverse? Give me a break!!! Kennesaw is outside Atlanta and, like all cities in the ‘ole’ South, is full of people from all parts of the country and the world. In fact, as a Northerner who moved south, I find more diversity here than where I came from — think Boston, Wilmington, DE. Your comment about diversity shows ignorance of this part of the country.
Just sign me, a smart Yankee (I moved to the south)
A free American
June 16th, 2009
1:35 pm
TV SUCKS!
greg miller
June 16th, 2009
1:40 pm
You have got to be kidding….I don’t think so…
TY
June 16th, 2009
1:43 pm
Just a bunch of rich people doing rich people things. Normal people can no longer afford to live in houses, rent houses or walk on grass. Maybe if they locked them into a building in the projects it would be more “real”.
Hate reality shows
June 16th, 2009
1:43 pm
Paddy Chayefsky is laughing in his grave. If you don’t know what I’m talking about see the movie “Network”
William Paley
June 16th, 2009
1:45 pm
And the broadcast networks wonder why fewer and fewer people are watching them.
kf
June 16th, 2009
1:49 pm
If people would just stop watching this drivel, the networks might make an attempt to come up with something new. So long as channel surfers stop on these shows, the rest of us are going to have to continue to skip over them on the channel listings.
I’m with Rey, I’ll stick with Mythbusters, TLC, and Discovery Channel (though even these are venturing too far into the wierd reality realm I’m afraid)
Pete
June 16th, 2009
1:50 pm
Maybe the government can hire CBS to build a fence along our southern border…
nceeno
June 16th, 2009
1:51 pm
Damn, I’ll bet this comes on when ABC’s head liberal, Charlie Gibson is reporting from the White House how the Magic Negro’s healthcare reform is necessary and good for us little prople that don’t have the healthcare coverage we afford our own members of Congress.
Thank goodness that little puppy in the sewer was found alive. There is good news about, you just have to turn over a lot of rocks to find it.
sunny02
June 16th, 2009
1:56 pm
People are turning into blooming idiots.
the resistance VueFlix.com
Dan
June 16th, 2009
2:02 pm
The “dumbing down of America” continues.
John
June 16th, 2009
2:03 pm
“And given that this is CBS, expect the prize to be well into the six figures (but less than one million dollars.)”
No kidding? You can’t fit a million dollars into a six figure number? Thanks for spelling that out for us complete idiots, Rodney Ho.
ted
June 16th, 2009
2:07 pm
since the digital switch, I have stopped watching tv… very refreshing… just internet streams when I want to watch. so much more less invasive. thanks for pushing me to change big gvmnt! tv free and loving it! too bad for local stations… i guess theyre more toasted.
ted
June 16th, 2009
2:11 pm
…oh yeah,… anyone wanna buy a nice tv?… hahahahahah! ditch ‘em all… kill your tv!
JT
June 16th, 2009
2:23 pm
Good grief. Is there no limit to the depravity people will sink to? I never understood the “reality show” infatuation and never will. The only thing “real” about it is level to which morally bankrupt people will sink for their chance at 15 minutes of “fame” provided by even greater morally bankrupt parasites.
Stuart
June 16th, 2009
2:26 pm
It’s no wonder this country is in the state it is, look at crap people will watch. Get a life of your own.
TC
June 16th, 2009
2:27 pm
What a stupid idea – another dis reality show – the fad is over ! – gee this sounds like Apocalpse, Jericho or any other number of pre canned shows – you reality people need to get a life – maybe you should just keep funding good shows instead of making new stupid ones destined to fail,….HBO here I come !
YIKES
June 16th, 2009
2:33 pm
Once again the TV industry shows us how easy the race to the bottom is. Devoid of real ideas and creativity consumers continue to be fed the same old heaps of steaming doggie doo-doo! What’s more amazing is that people line up like hogs at the whey trough to watch this tripe. (Wait, I’m not amazed, just bored and annoyed.)
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June 16th, 2009
2:41 pm
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GG
June 16th, 2009
2:45 pm
America, a great country built & maintained by a few hard working people for billions and billions of morons to make, participate and watch these reality shows.
LLinLa
June 16th, 2009
2:46 pm
As they say, “There goes the neighborhood!” I’m sure the “Jones’” that don’t keep up with the others “Jones’” in this depraved unreal “reality” show will be the same after this farce. We’ve got way too much time on our hands in this country . . .
ted
June 16th, 2009
3:02 pm
you can get your local news on AM radio every half hour, and national news on public radio and internet streams… why bother with a brainwashing, hypnotizing television in your humble abode?
Fred Johnson
June 16th, 2009
3:14 pm
Mr. Bienstock, tear down that wall.
Out2Sea
June 16th, 2009
3:17 pm
This is too funny!! Most of the dumb-masses that will watch this drivel will believe it’s real! And of course, this being Georgia, they will include stereotyping and racism as a main topic. Like Michael I wonder if the Red-diaper doper-babies from Hollyweird knew about the local law requiring all head of households to own a gun (LOL). Since I have never watched any of this type of garbage (sorry can’t name any of similar shows, don’t watch them either)it’s no big loss for me. Hey, I like the comment about Hollyweird building a fence on the border, that show I might watch………..nah, just kidding !! “If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.” – Gen. George S. Patton
ted
June 16th, 2009
3:19 pm
drop your tv and cable…
see these internet options…
http://www.hulu.com
http://www.adultswim.com
http://www.retrovision.tv
go fullscreen fokkers!
kill your TV!
ted
June 16th, 2009
3:36 pm
kill your tv..
check out…
retrovision.com
adultswim.com
retrovision.tv
goodbye tv…
kg
June 16th, 2009
3:54 pm
Can they mov, Michele, Barrack, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi and Dirty Harry in there?
GWHH
June 16th, 2009
4:10 pm
Didn’t the outer limits and the twilight zone do the same sort thing. And after a few hours all the people pick up guns and such and tried to kill each other!
Barney
June 16th, 2009
4:18 pm
Per the ordinance, we better see that each family owns a firearm
Dave
June 16th, 2009
4:30 pm
Wow sounds really stupid. Nobody will have to remind me to not tune in to another boring reality TV show. CBS if you want to spend money building walls, I know of a border that is in need of a wall…..
prossech
June 16th, 2009
4:38 pm
This is in Legacy Park. When I moved to Cobb 10 years ago I looked at moving there. I didn’t, mainly because the covenant you had to sign was as thick as phone book. They had regulations on what color you could paint rooms INSIDE your house (if it could be seen from the street), how many cars you could park in your driveway, and what kind of trees you could plant in your yard. I don’t remember, but I’m pretty sure building a giant, ugly wall through the neighborhood would have been a violation. How in the hell can this fly??? If I lived there I would be suing the HOA for allowing this circus.
Joanne
June 16th, 2009
4:39 pm
That looks an awful lot like what they did to the Jews back in the day. Put up a giant wall and told them they couldn’t go outside the wall or “they would lose”. Only they didn’t get prizes at the end. This is the poorest excuse for a television show I’ve seen in a long time. Shame on you.
Charles
June 16th, 2009
4:41 pm
Stupid.
Dennis
June 16th, 2009
4:54 pm
KILL THE T.V.?
GO OUTSIDE AND PLAY?
SOME OF YOU DON’T EVEN OWN A T.V.?
You should all run for office, I love you……..
I tell my family that the one thing I want to do before I die, is to take the laptop and the t.v. and drive over it with my truck, and then back up to make sure I killed them….
I feel sooo good right now, thank you…
irene
June 16th, 2009
4:57 pm
This is so pathetic..has the viewing public lost all sense of reality? This isn’t it. Get a life….play catch with your kids, walk the dog, plant a flower, heck mow the lawn…visit your mom or dad….DO ANYTHING.
Vas
June 16th, 2009
4:59 pm
This is a perfect example of why I stopped watching tv almost 18 years ago.
But I bet you chumps will eat this crap up.
Dennis
June 16th, 2009
5:00 pm
amen, Irene….
Ted in San Diego
June 16th, 2009
5:09 pm
Reality shows are cheap, require no actors or writing or creative talent….that’s why there are so many of them these days. TV has gone the path of the music industry, taking the less creative easy way out and just dumping bad entertainment on us and moving onto the next thing 6 mos later. Sad.
Jim Stickann
June 16th, 2009
5:11 pm
The only REALITY in all this is that CBS is desperate and being run my morons.
Megan
June 16th, 2009
5:27 pm
anyone know which neighborhood in Legacy park this is taking place? I met one of the couples participating in the show and forgot which subdivision of legacy park they said they were in..
Mikey
June 16th, 2009
5:32 pm
Ah the idiocracy of Amerika continues. Now all we need to do is combine this show with Hole in The Wall…
rick
June 16th, 2009
5:34 pm
Isn’t Kennesaw the place where the judge ruled that everyone had to own a gun? This could get good!
JoeB
June 16th, 2009
5:45 pm
How about a reality show called. “American Idiots”? Plenty of possible participants… just take any of the people who watch “reality” shows, then you won’t need to ‘find’ people to audition!
david porter
June 16th, 2009
6:14 pm
Father Knows Best was a stupid show. So was Brady Bunch. Both were ideals of an American family that does not exist.
no drama
June 16th, 2009
6:17 pm
When did we start finding other people’s drama entertaining? Especially when it is created by people who are making a dollar teaching our kids to behave outrageously like these wanna be actors do on these shows. If I want drama, I’ll turn on the news. And that is real drama that more people should be watching!
cbs crew
June 16th, 2009
6:21 pm
You guys are so ignorant. This is providing job opportunities to those people in the kennesaw area who are out of work. Also… its not something like fear factor where they make you eat bugs… they are actually promoting that people spend more time with their families. You can have what ever opinions you want… but this will be far better for people to be watching than survivor or fear factor type shows… it is family based and sends a good message… plus since I have been working on the show myself, i know that it is going to be fun to watch… you’ll see.