Tuesday, August 05, 2008

Better than Baywatch

The final episode of MASH is the all-time largest TV audience in American history with 120 million viewers.  But that’s not good enough for China.

BEIJING—Hijinx Of The Masses, a Chinese sitcom about 16 twentysomethings who live above a tea shop, was canceled Monday after the series premiere was only able to draw a disappointing 180 million viewers. “We were aware that the show would be competing with dragon-boat races on ESPN Macau, but Hijinx Of The Masses still performed much worse than expected,” China Central Television network executive Wei Xiang said. “Anything less than a quarter of a billion viewers is simply unacceptable.” In order to fill the time slot left by the canceled program, the actors, producers, writers, camera operators, and everyone else associated with the show will be executed live on air next Thursday at 9 p.m

For those of you who don’t have a sense of humor, this is a parody.  Although, watching a bunch of TV scum executed live on TV does have a certain sense of le mot juste about it.