Dating Shows Get Canceled - Thank Goodness!
While last summer’s “Hooking Up,” was not perfect, beside this summer’s offering of “How to Get the Guy” (and it also seems, Australia’s “Yasmin’s Getting Married”), “Hooking Up” could get an Oscar. I hadn’t even seen “How to Get the Guy” when I wrote about it here on June 13th but I was already sure it would be pretty awful, and it was. Very stagey, and the “coaches”??? From that show’s point of view, if you were married, attractive, and good on TV, you could be a dating coach. Forget about knowledge and experience. Yuck. Well, I was not the only one who thought this series was a very bad idea . ABC canceled the series before anybody got anyone. (By the way, if you were a fan, you can see the canceled shows on ABC’s website. Isn’t that a TREAT??!!)
I read a couple of weeks ago that in Australia, they were getting ready to air what sounded like an equally cheesy show called “Yasmin’s Getting Married,” where a single woman would pick a guy while planning her wedding and marry the poor sap. Well, now it seems that Australians have as much good sense as the American audience. After just one week (the showed aired every night), it was canceled. Still eight weeks before the supposed wedding. Well? Will Yasmin get married, really? Who knows?
From Your Romance Coach, Kathryn Lord
PS Wikipedia writes about everything. Even Yasmin. Well, almost everything. They don’t do “How to Get the Guy.” No big loss.
