On June 22nd ABC  will premiere the new action game show Downfall from FremantleMedia .  You may be wondering how this new game is played.  Allow me to fill you in.

Apparently, while perched on top of a 10-story building in Los Angeles, contestants will race against a clock to answer trivia questions  in an effort to win MAJOR prizes and $1 million dollars in cash. Doesn’t sound too difficult, except for the ‘perched’ part, I’m not sure what that means, but I suspect it’s not laying back in a cozy leather recliner sipping champagne from gold flutes.  But, here’s the ‘fun’ part, while contestants are trying to answer the trivia questions, the life-size prizes and cash move along on a gigantic conveyor belt.  The players must answer all their questions before the prizes and cash run off the conveyor belt, falling off the building and smashing to pieces 100 feet below.  If the cash or prizes fall to the ground, the player is eliminated.

Have you seen the brilliantly written, prophetic movie by Paddy Chayefsky called Network?  I wrote an earlier post about it.  Well, Mr. Chayefsky clearly had a crystal ball, because this game could have been in his movie.  I don’t mean to be serious, but… there are starving people in the world and television networks are producing shows with major prizes, perhaps even a washer and dryer, being thrown off a roof?  Are you for real?  Haven’t touring musicians been arrested for this type of behavior?  Sheesh.   That’s the word for it.  Sheesh.

What’s the dumbest game/reality show you’ve seen lately?