We’re spending a quiet evening at home tonight, watching stuff on the Science Channel. During a commercial break from a very interesting show about the ice hotel that gets built annually in Sweden, we saw a commercial for a new show coming to Animal Planet entitled “River Monsters”. The gist? It’s a guy who’s dubbed as “an extreme angler”, which I think roughly translates as “fishes with a harpoon gun nearby”, who goes after really big, nasty fish. Sort of like Bassmasters, but with the chance of the host being ripped to shreds by some sort of ferocious water creature.
As time marches on, it seems that viewers require more & more shocking content in order to hold their interest. What will be required in 5 or 10 years to draw in viewers? How about ice hockey, but where the players have nitroglycerin strapped to their bodies? How far are we away from The Running Man?
