Copy Cat Television Shows

TV Shows That Are Complete Rip Offs

Posted by: Justine Fields Filed in: entertainment
3:29PM, Thursday July 30th 2009

DJ AM, who you may remember as the other survivor in a plane crash along with Travis Barker, has a new show set to debut on MTV. The plane crash wasn’t the first time DJ AM, aka Adam Goldstein, defied death. Eleven years ago, he was a crack addict who attempted suicide, but fortunately the gun got jammed. Since he’s been so lucky to escape death twice, he’s looking to help other people with addictions. His show, “Gone Too Far,” will help the loved ones of addicts rescue their friends and family from the reaches of death. This show sounds familiar. Wait a second… Isn’t that the same plot as A&E’s “Intervention”? Indeed, it is! While I’m not shocked that MTV is completely copying another network’s successful show, it’s so not. In fact, recycled premises happen all of the time. More after the jump. [LA Times Blog]

When “Project Runway” made the jump to Lifetime, Bravo didn’t know what to do with itself. So it did the least original thing possible and recreated the old show, with less famous hosts and called it “The Fashion Show.”
Fox’s ”American Idol” swept the nation when it debuted 2002. Four years later, NBC debuted a show with unknown singers on a stage and called it “America’s Got Talent.” The only difference: Instead of being awarded a record contract and world-fame, the winner of “America’s Got Talent” received $1 million.
In 2004, ABC audiences got quite a laugh out of watching moms switch homes on “Wife Swap.” Turns out, it was a total copy of Fox’s “Trading Spouses” that didn’t have much success. But in reality, both shows were exact replicas of the UK’s “Wife Swap” from the year before.
”The Bachelor” and “The Bachelorette” have been such successes over the years that creator Mike Fleiss decided to pull off the same exact thing with a controversial twist. Now you can watch overweight people go through the same dating process on “More to Love.”
For years, every Friday night on E!, Joel McHale has been standing in front of a TV screen, making funny quips and recounting the best moments in pop culture on “The Soup.” Recently, a show debuted on Style, where every Saturday night, Danielle Fishel stands in front a TV screen, makes funny quips, and recounts the best moments in pop culture on “The Dish.” Enough said.

What do you think—will you watch DJ AM’s show? Or stay loyal to “Intervention?”

comments

Coral
wrote on July 30 2009 @ 02:50 pm: [report]

And there are all those nanny shows and wife swap shows.

Squidtermz
wrote on July 30 2009 @ 03:11 pm: [report]

Yeah and the game shows are all the same too. Deal or No Deal, Who wants to be a millionaire, 1 in 100, they’re slightly different but all have the same scoring principal.

bumbler
wrote on July 30 2009 @ 04:09 pm: [report]

The Dish is The Soup if The Soup wasn’t funny.

robertsmithshairspray
wrote on July 30 2009 @ 04:12 pm: [report]

What about all the tattoo shows as of late? There’s Miami Ink, LA Ink and London Ink, to name the most popular.. I write for a tattoo site, and once you get to learn a few things about tattooing, you’ll even realise that these tattoo shops would have been closed down if the tattooists were’t famous (can’t actually speak for London Ink, never seen it- LA Ink’s the worst for this).

SterlingSilver36
wrote on July 30 2009 @ 05:50 pm: [report]

@robertsmith I wish you’d elaborate on that! why would they be closed down?

robertsmithshairspray
wrote on July 30 2009 @ 06:58 pm: [report]

Well, I’m not a tattoo artist myself, but like I said I’ve gotten to know a few things- and there is no way in hell a tattoo artist should wear loads of bracelets and jewellery when tattooing, have a cat running around the place (cats stand in their own piss when they use a litter tray ffs) or tattoo barefoot, as Kat Von D always does. I’ve heard a few things about the black gloves they use being crap too, but y’know, it’s not like someone’d close you down for that. If you ask your local tattoo artist about health and safety regulations, a lot of the things you see on the show become apparent to the everyday viewer. You can also take a look at tattoosdayuk.com, but I won’t say anything more, I don’t want to plug my own site on someone else’s page, it’s not very polite. Either way, if you’re concerned about tattoo safety, m’dear, always best to do some research, as many people don’t realise how much goes into tattooing, I know I didn’t until I started writing.

robertsmithshairspray
wrote on July 30 2009 @ 06:59 pm: [report]

Oh, and I’ll apologise now if I come across a bit of a know-it-all through that last comment.. it’s late over here in England, haha.

Righteous Metal Broad
wrote on July 30 2009 @ 11:40 pm: [report]

RobertsSmithsHairspray is totally right, anyone who knows anything about safety regulations (medical, tattooing, or otherwise) can watch any of those tattoo shows and see loads of mistakes that have the potential to be harmful.

(spoken as a medical assistant and future nursing student)

ashburn247
wrote on July 31 2009 @ 01:34 pm: [report]

the dish isnt a rip off, it’s a spin off. same with web soup and sports soup. you should take 3 minutes and actually research your topics so you dont look like a complete moron. also, the style network and E! are owned by the same company.