In a further indication that the death of western civilization is finally upon us, ABC Television has announced that it is ordering a pilot based on... the Geico caveman commercials.
No immediate word on who will star as the insurance-challenged Neanderthals, but presumably it won't be the ones from the ads. At least one of the actors is already in a series on TBS.
It is not clear what the executives at ABC were thinking, or if some sort of recreational drug use was involved when they came up with this idea. While the ads are somewhat amusing, most people seem to hate them. How that hatred is supposed to translate into millions of viewers is not immediately clear.
Now if one of the network suits really wanted to look like a programing genius, why not turn the Victoria Secrets ads into a weekly series? Hell, guys would be tripping all over one another to get to a big screen TV for that!
The bigger danger is that the caveman show may further embolden the evangelical religious nutjobs who advocate the teaching of Intelligent Design in schools. They've gone as far as to build an Intelligent Design museum in Kentucky, continue to insist that the Earth is only 6,000 years old, and that man lived alongside dinosaurs... though so far they have stopped short of saying that Adam and Eve used to milk a domesticated Tyrannosaurus Rex.
It's bad enough that these people think The Flintstones is a documentary, but do we need to confuse them even further with a TV series about cavemen living in modern times?
It is not clear what the executives at ABC were thinking, or if some sort of recreational drug use was involved when they came up with this idea. While the ads are somewhat amusing, most people seem to hate them. How that hatred is supposed to translate into millions of viewers is not immediately clear.
Now if one of the network suits really wanted to look like a programing genius, why not turn the Victoria Secrets ads into a weekly series? Hell, guys would be tripping all over one another to get to a big screen TV for that!
The bigger danger is that the caveman show may further embolden the evangelical religious nutjobs who advocate the teaching of Intelligent Design in schools. They've gone as far as to build an Intelligent Design museum in Kentucky, continue to insist that the Earth is only 6,000 years old, and that man lived alongside dinosaurs... though so far they have stopped short of saying that Adam and Eve used to milk a domesticated Tyrannosaurus Rex.
It's bad enough that these people think The Flintstones is a documentary, but do we need to confuse them even further with a TV series about cavemen living in modern times?
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