Antti Ozzy

One of the first things I noticed about Finland when we arrived was that the Osbournes Show wasn't a video with a *beep* soundtrack. I was rather briefly entertained by actually hearing the entire family speak without censoring but it's odd how quickly the show it lost its cachet without the *beep*.

I guess Finland got bored of the Osbournes too as they are now going to air 8 episodes of The McCoys Show on MTV3. It's a very similar recipe -- a brain-fried former guitarist from Hanoi Rocks who can't enunciate or communicate clearly who was saved by his wife [ a yankee even ] and are now selling their daily lives on 'reality' TV.

I feel obligated to watch the first episode as though I'm some sort of expert on lame American pop-culture so that I can guage just how well Finland has been studying the airwaves. I'm really curious to see if Andy McCoy will be more intelligible in garbled Finnish than Ozzy is in mumbled English. :)

Reality TV is like blogging for the masses only less entertaining and much like watching a train wreck; painful, yet strangely compelling. I wonder how soon they'll air a reality TV show where all they do is film a bunch of bloggers tapping out their dull life stories on their laptops at Starbucks. How about an entire series of Warchalking and the quest for free wireless? Why not, they've had just about everything else except some of the more unseemly parts of suburban living.

12 Jun 2003 at 11:14, Helsinki