I was flipping around TV and came upon VH1's new series, I Love the Millennium.

First thought: really. VH1, you really couldn't wait another two years and tie everything up into a nice decade-sized package like you did the last three decades? They must be making a ton of money/ratings between those and the Best Week Ever series (now I see even comes in Best Day Ever flavor) because they're apparently not patient enough to wait to spew out more.

The freaky part is that you find yourself actually feeling nostalgic over events that only happened 7 or 8 years ago.

And another problem is that, at BEST, they can only really make 8 episodes. Which you know they're going to repeat ad nauseum. At least, until their next genius stoke, I Love Money.

Apparently this new series follows in the footsteps of their "Of Love" series (Flavor, New York, Rock), by simply taking contestants from those shows and having them compete against each other, Survivor-style. And it's actually a little refreshing. VH1 is being honest with the public by saying, "Yes, these people never were really interested in finding love with Flava Flav to begin with, so we're stretching their 15 minutes of fame even further." That certainly explains why shows like this manage to get sequels.

Now, follow along with me, this might get complicated. If I remember correctly, this all started with the third season of The Surreal Life, with Flava Flav and Brigitte Nielsen hooked up to Strange Love. Two years of that, they broke up, Flava got into Flava of Love. The second season introduced "New York", who went onto two years of her own series. Now, we have this new show which stars former contestants from this and the other shows.

So, in effect, I Love Money is the spinoff of a sequel of a spinoff of a sequel of a spinoff of a sequel of a sequel of a spinoff of a sequel of a sequel of a show. And it possibly gets more complicated if you count stuff like Charm School or Rock of Love 2.

Ugh.

Labels: television, VH1

posted by Tim at 10:23 PM