Coming Soon to Your TV Screen

    With another television season about to descend mercilessly upon a helpless public, Dome of Glass has managed to obtain double secret previews of the worst of the new programs to help you defend against the onslaught.

•Stubble.
Based extremely loosely on the non-blockbuster non-prime-time series Whisker Wars and featuring endless interviews with famous people you never heard of and don’t like, Stubble let’s you in on the secrets, arcane rituals, specialized shaving instruments, and expensive hair salons that allow such celebrities as Brad Pitt, Hugh Jackman, Hugh Laurie, Russell Crowe, Homer Simpson, and hundreds of other male sex objects to maintain perpetual ten-day growths of facial hair. Conceived by Isaac Mizrahi and a cabal of fellow fashion industry queers, Stubble is expected to appeal to prepubescent girls, post-menopausal women, the nation’s burgeoning gay population, and a few male nerds hoping to attract members of the opposite sex by attempting to grow scraggly veneers of chin whiskers. (Filmed before a live audience.)

•You’ve Come a Long Way Baby. A heavily botoxed Rosie O'Donnell stars in this British action/adventure/mystery/comedy/sci-fi/drama as a mysterious Liverpudlian fag hag endowed with a wide array of superpowers including the ability to feign attacks of Tourette’s syndrome, speak in tongues, sneer threateningly, and mount young girls in a single bound. Ms. O'Donnell is slightly supported in her unsuccessful attempts to fight crime by a cast featuring Lady Gaga as Madonna, Madonna as Whoopie Goldberg, Mel Gibson as Shylock the Usurer, and the late Marlon Brando as Pierre the Pillsbury Dough Man. (Filmed before a dead audience.)

•Degenerate Housewives of Jaffrey, New Hampshire.
Aimed at the same estrogen-soaked demographic that watches Desperate Housewives and Real Housewives of This, That, and the Other Place, this new reality show, womanned by a select group of really ugly New Hampshire wives, follows the girls as they engage in a different perversion each week. The pilot episode is set in the Rindge Walmart were two of the group (Smile Train survivor Ariadne Pelletier of Antrim and wealthy Rosamon Duckworth of the Peterborough Duckworths) are remanded to the notorious Cheshire County lockup in  Keene after a contretemps with an immense Walmart customer who was clogging the Beauty aisle in the store’s pharmacy section. While in jail, both housewives are subjected to acts of inappropriate behavior (shown in graphic detail) until rescued by Oprah Winfrey. In ensuing episodes, the wives confront such contemporary topics as husband poisoning, shoplifting, infanticide, marital sex, pre-marital sex, post-marital sex, cougarism, and carb-loading before adultery.

•Cardboard Caravan. In an all-out effort to improve its sagging ratings, PBS is initiating this exciting spin-off of its hugely unsuccessful Antiques Roadshow franchise. Cardboard Caravan, as the name vaguely implies, deals with all aspects and ramifications of the popular pastime of paper goods collecting, from the simple garnering of roadside litter to the joy of treasure-hunting in the newsprint, magazine, corrugated cardboard, and scrap-paper bins of the Peterborough Recycling Center to the thrill of stealing rare manuscripts and first editions from museums and public libraries. Each program will take place in a different exotic locale. Shows already "in the can" include episodes in Berlin (New Hampshire), Lebanon (New Hampshire), Dublin (New Hampshire), Rome (New York), and Paris (Maine). The series will be shown on all PBS stations provided air-time is available between fundraisers.

•Seven and a Half Men. If Two and a Half Men was a blockbuster, how can three times as many men go wrong? This naughtily daring sitcom marks the return of Charlie Sheen in the role of a middle-aged, delusional, megalomaniacal drug addict named Charlie Sheen. Set in the Psychiatric ward of Dannemora State Prison, the initial episode sees Sheen wallowing luxuriously in a private cell and having imaginary sex with an imaginary hooker. Sheen’s idyllic life is interrupted when his bisexual fraternal twin and fellow nut-case Alec (Alec Baldwin) is unceremoniously dumped on him as cellmate. Not knowing that Charlie believes himself to be the reincarnation of Malcolm X, Alec (who believes himself to be Keith Olbermann in drag) begins arguing politics whereupon Charlie kicks him in the balls. As you can well imagine, this leads to much hilarity, many fart jokes, and a lot of witty bathroom humor. I won’t give away the rest of the show’s boisterous mirth. Watch it yourself if you have the stomach. (By the way, the "half-man" of the title is a rapist dwarf, thus eliminating any problem for the show's producers of having him grow up.)

•Buried in Crap While Whispering. M. Night Shyamalan is said to have conceived this docu-drama while in a 48-hour-long drug-induced coma during which he was exposed to non-stop reruns of 1,000 Ways to Die, Dog Whisperer, Hoarders, Snapped, and Jeopardy. Using an artful amalgam of archival footage, studio re-creations, and outright lies, Shyamalan projects the miseries, joys, successes, failures, disgusting diseases, and lurid deaths of overweight men and women who crack under the pressure of spousal abuse and expire agonizingly beneath mounds of self-accumulated trash while attempting to housebreak their pet Chihuahuas. All dialogue must be in the form of a question ─ "Who bit my armpit?" "Whose stump is that?" "Why am I dying horribly?" "May I leave the room?" "Is beheading your father a felony or a misdemeanor?" "Does neatness count?" "What is Alex Trebeck?"

Norm Mack, Peterborough, dog@myfairpoint.net

 

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