Frankly, Not So Entertaining

My love for VH1’s unique brand of so-bad-it’s-good reality television is hardly a secret. Some of my all-time favorite bad television moments have happened on VH1. However, VH1 may finally have gone too far…. even by my standards.

In an attempt to perpetuate the dating-show franchise that began with Flavor of Love… and that continued with myriad spin-offs… some that were great (I Love New York)… to some that were not so bad (Rock of Love)… to those that really came close to putting a nail in the coffin of the franchise (Daisy of Love)… VH1 is going back to the well yet again with a new dating series, this one entitled The Entertainer of Love.

Sound familiar? It should. Yes, VH1 is giving “Frank the Entertainer” (from I Love New York and I Love Money) his own show. Come on, VH1… why? Wasn’t it bad enough that you had to dig down to a level low enough in which Daisy is considered TV-star material (and that’s PRETTY LOW) in order to continue your dating-show madness? Aren’t you even remotely embarrassed that your programming development is so bad that the best you could do is to give “your 15-minutes-are-SO-over” Megan (from Rock of Love, Charm School, AND I Love Money) HER own show (sadly, it’s true: watch for Megan Wants a Millionaire, coming soon to a TV near you)? Couldn’t you have given us another season of The Surreal Life before subjecting us to twenty women who believe (insanely, it would seem) that Frank the Entertainer is their dream man?

For all of my bellicosity, though, I have a funny feeling that I’ll be tuning in. Hey, I can’t be the ONLY one who wants to see if Frank FINALLY makes it out of his parents’ basement, can I?