(For those whose exposure to poetry and/or poets has been limited to more contemporary purveyors as Hoops and YoYo, here's a link to Emily's bio...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Dickinson)
Admittedly, the lady had game when it came to rhyme and verse.
But she was, apparently, also possessed of a prescience regarding the eventual evolution of network TV.
A pudding full of proof momentito.
Simon Cowell's Syco Entertainment production company is partnering with couple Jada Pinkett-Smith and Will Smith's Overbrook Entertainment and Sony Pictures Television to launch a new reality competition that will search for the world's best deejays.
The format of the new international TV series, which is being produced by Sony and co-produced by Syco and Overbrook, has been in development for over a year. Broadcast partners in the U.S. and U.K. will be announced soon, according to the partners.
"We have been working on this show for over a year and we wanted to partner with the right people. As soon as I met Jada and Miguel from Overbrook, I knew they would be our ideal partners. DJ's are the new rock stars, it feels like the right time to make this show," Cowell, who also executive produces The X Factor and America's Got Talent, said in a statement.
Pinkett-Smith said she's excited to feature a new type of talent on reality TV different from its usual singers and dancers.
"This show will comb the world to find a new breed of talent," the actress explained. "I am happy to be creating it alongside Simon Cowell, the Sony team, and my partner Miguel Melendez, on behalf of the Overbrook family."
"We are thrilled to be working with Simon Cowell and our partners at Overbrook on what we know will be a tremendously successful global format," Andrea Wong, President of International Production for Sony, added.
Never a fan of the reality show concept, I suppose any critical comment I have to make here should include an asterisk.
Because, obviously, as evidenced by their success, reality shows have found themselves a willing and waiting audience.
There is, of course, a wonderful, sub-textual case to be made for the idea that the popularity of reality shows can be traced right back to the intrinsic human urge to peek into other people's lives and/or windows.
You say realism.
I say voyuerism.
Potato, patahto, tomato, tamahto.
Prurient predilections aside, I think it only fair to admit that the concept did, in fact, generate interest, even excitement, upon its inception, if only because it was new, different, something out of the ordinary.
Kind of like Taco Bell serving breakfast.
At some point, though, the novelty, as novelties will, begins to wear off and, with a few, rare exceptions, the appeal, having reached the top of the curve, begins a pretty rapid (read: screaming) descent toward the ground.
Kind of like Taco Bell serving breakfast.
Nothing succeeding like success, though, it's inevitable that with each new day will come yet another new idea, usually from those who have, to date, profited most from ideas already executed.
Which brings us to "the world's best deejays".
An idea whose time has come...if only to offer unimpeachable proof that the concept really is, honest to God, running out of ideas.
Nothing succeeding like success, though, with each new day comes yet new possibilities that there might still be life left in the genre', that the final, even close to resembling the last desperate drops of intelligence might still remain to be wrung out of the satellite dishrag and sprinkled over an ever thirsty, voyeuristic viewing audience.
Evidence, alas, to the contrary.
Still, all things are possible. The best might be yet to come.
One can only hope.
Which is why Emily Dickinson would have been a world class television critic.
"Hope is the thing with feathers...that perches in the soul..."
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