National Bingo Night

Worst. Show. EVER.

After sitting through the debut of ABC's mindless National Bingo Night, I feel as if I may have lost a couple of IQ points.

Exactly what was ABC going for with this mess? Did someone in an ABC programming-development meeting say "we need to appeal to the audience that finds the complexities of Deal or No Deal to be too challenging and overwhelming"...? For some inexplicable reason, considering that the title of the show is National Bingo Night the game of bingo actually had very little to do with the show. Instead, the game of bingo seemed to be thrown in as a device to keep the studio audience and at-home audience busy while the foolishness on-stage was taking place. Good thing, too... because if the audience had actually been paying attention to what was taking place on the stage, there may have been a mass revolt.

Well, at least Donny Osmond can take some comfort out of this debacle. His Great American Dream Vote no longer holds the title of worst-ever show on ABC.