Can I Get an AAAA-MEN!

[by Erica, you can read her blog at http://ihearttv.blogspot.com]

If Janice Dickinson hanging her ass out a window on The Surreal Life was too raunchy (or just too disturbing) for you, you might be interested in a new show currently still in the audition stage. Pulpit Masters will be a 10-part weekly series featuring 12 aspiring preachers in a fight to see not who can be crazier, boozier, and a more disgusting human being, but rather to see who can be the most inspirational.

According to an article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the contestants will live together and discuss their spiritual journeys. At the end of each episode, a live studio audience will eliminate the contestant with the worst speaking style and message. Contestants won’t know what the grand prize is until the end of the show. The producers of the show are right in saying that religion is one of reality TV’s least-discussed topics, but that might just be because watching people sit around discussing their religious views has the potential to be pretty boring. And their naivete is charming; “It’s one of the rare reality TV shows where people on the show truly believe in their message, as opposed to wanting to be on TV,” creator Tom Borden said. Someone should tell this guy can preachers can be fame whores too. Did he learn nothing from Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker?

“People need some good programming that doesn’t make them feel violated,” executive producer Tom McMahon said. If this show airs in December as the organizers say it will, I think he might learn that the American public actually enjoys being violated.