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News & ArtsWednesday, December 3, 2008
Books / TV Choking on Chicken Soup
Posted by Paul Constant on Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 3:28 PM
Soon it will spread, viruslike, to other mediums:
Dick Clark Prods. has inked a deal with Chicken Soup for the Soul Publishing to develop an unscripted TV series based on the best-selling books to be co-hosted by book series co-creator Jack Canfield."Now more than ever, there is a desire for uplifting, positive and inspiring themes, and the 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' books are the perfect embodiment of this," DCP president Orly Adelson said.
Holy shit. I'm already getting hives thinking about this Chicken Soup for the Soul reality TV show series. While on vacation in Maine, I watched a lot of TV (it's how my family bonds), and for the first time I witnessed the horror that is Extreme Home Makeover, with its phony charity flag flying week in and week out. I have never seen a TV show host work through a hug with such barely-disguised contempt so many times. This will be like that, but a billion times worse.
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I've hated Chicken Soup for the Soul ever since they rejected my manuscript of Chicken Soup for the Athiest's Soul
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Really, though, this is terrible, and I'd like to take a bowl boiling chicken soup and throw it into Jack Canfield's eyes, while shouting some witty comment parodying his books. I can't think of one now, but I'm sure I can come up with something on the spot.
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No, it will spread like mildew - invisibly for the most part, thriving in darkness and closed spaces and recognoized mostly by it's unpleasant smell.
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@1:
I hear you. When I tried to pitch "Chicken Soup For The Chicken's Soul" they just hung right up on me.
I hear you. When I tried to pitch "Chicken Soup For The Chicken's Soul" they just hung right up on me.
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Jesus. I had hoped this series would die a gradual, but real death at some point. I mean, it's been what, a dozen years since the first one of these comes out? What's next, The Rules: the Reality TV show? The Dilbert Principle: The Movie? Didn't the 1908s provide enough of this type of dreck with Highway to Heaven?
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This ended up reminding me there was an old trashy movie where a girl says semen tastes like chicken & stars soup - Can anyone name that? - My high school girlfriend and I had a running joke about it.
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