grok_mctanys

...you know, the sort of amount that an idiot would consider it worth totally humiliating themself for.

Over the last few weeks or so, while waiting for another episode of The Big Bang Theory, How I Met Your Mother, or Brooklyn Nine-Nine to come on, I've been bombarded with teaser trailers for "The Circle". Being teaser trailers, they didn't tell me much about what the show was, but they told me enough for me to know that I wasn't really interested in seeing it.

Apparently it started a few days ago, and so the trailers have changed. They now tell you it's a Big Brother clone, with an "on the internet, nobody knows you're a dog" twist. Fair enough. I mean, I'm still not interested in seeing it, but whatever.

Except one of the trailers mentioned that the prize was "a hundred grand". Not "one hundred thousand pounds", or some other way of wording that particular amount, but literally "a hundred grand". In my mind, that is a bit unfortunate, because in the context of a reality show prize it immediately brings to mind that Mitchell and Webb sketch: "Apprentice".

Poor wording indeed.

And just in case anyone hates the glut of cheap and often exploitative reality TV shows that have multiplied over our airwaves, but have one they simply have to watch because "it's like car crash TV" or whatever, be sure to watch the sketch all the way to the end.