Michael Jackson Interview Inspires New Reality Television Show
LOS ANGELES (Disassociated Press) February 6, 2003 - The recent Michael Jackson interview, aired on ABC’s 20/20, has sparked much discussion in light of various statements and claims the pop icon made during the interview. Among those statements was Jackson’s mention of his desire to adopt two children from each of the world’s continents. Following the interview, discussion began as to whether Jackson meant to include children from the uninhabited Continent of Antarctica.
Immediately, Fox Network announced its plans to create a new reality television show in which selected contestants would be chosen to populate Antarctica, with an equal number of men and women, in attempt to form couples and procreate. The new show, which is to be titled Chiller!, is planned to go on for several years, as the coupling and parenting process will be chronicled and aired weekly on Fox.
“After a period of time, the viewing audience will start voting family units ‘off the ice-float,' based on the audience's perception as to who has raised the least appropriate children to be adopted by Jackson,” said Fox Programming Development Executive Seth Gumbridge. Gumbridge went on, explaining that the last remaining couple would be rewarded with turning their progeny over to Jackson for adoption, after the years of toil and hardship of surviving and raising them in the vast frozen wasteland. “Of course, there will be significant cash prizes for the winners,” said Gumbridge.
When informed by a member of the press that the
Antarctic was not an ice-float but rather a land mass, Gumbridge replied, “Oh,
ice-float, shmice-float, landmass, shmandmass—do you know what the intelligence
level of our target audience is going to be?”