January 24th, 2008 · Post a Comment · posted by The Watcher
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TLC made much of its plan to reinvent the Miss America pageant when it landed a three-year deal to host the contest and convert it to a reality series. But TLC’s reinvention ended up less like a makeover and more like a new coat of fingernail polish.
Imagine what might have been. Can you picture a beauty heptathlon with the women seriously tested in matters of poise, style and intelligence – maybe even some kick-boxing – with the viewers voting “American Idol” style to pick a winner?
What did we get instead? Fifty-two contestants we can barely keep track of. Four weeks of tepid contests with nothing at stake. Judges with little qualification and less personality urging the various state Misses to shed their pageant hair and makeup – oh, and try not to sound like Miss Teen South Carolina.
The viewers’ consolation prize? We get to vote one contestant into the final 16.
The series concludes tonight, and Saturday brings us the pageant itself. As far as we can tell, that will be same old Miss America, each year a little more irrelevant than the year before.
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