Get Ready For A Glut Of Naked Reality Programs

May 6, 2014
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You can now consider us officially two steps away from Ow! My Balls becoming a reality.

According to The Wrap (link below), Hollywood is being flooded with pitches for naked reality shows thanks to the runaway success of Discovery's Naked and Afraid. In fact, VH1 has already greenlit one of them...

VH1 was the first to have the cojones to greenlight a naked dating show here in the U.S. "‘Dating Naked' was a pitch that I bought basically on my first day in the office," VH1's executive vice president of original programming and production, Susan Levison, told TheWrap. (ed. When did VH1 cease all music programming? Also, get off my lawn!)

You can look for this quote again in the near future under one of the following two headlines: "Susan Levison, Genius in Her Own Time," or "Bad Choices Finally Catch Up With Disgraced VH1 Executive."

"Yes, I've definitely seen a trend of naked-themed shows," Levison said. "That's why we were so keen on piloting ours quickly and getting it onto the air. We felt that we're really on to something here, and you obviously always want to be the first one in (ed. <snicker>). I think we are going to be able to achieve that."

Looks like VH1 isn't the only one that sees gold in this thing...

Discovery's sister network TLC had success with the "Buying Naked," which had a limited run in late 2013 with a return slated for June. The show goes inside a nudist community in Florida through the lens of the premiere realtor who caters to nudists.

I'm glad TLC finally just shortened their name to the acronym because there's no learning to be had on that network anymore. I'm all for more nudity, but it's a bit of a cop-out on basic cable where they have to blur out nipples and peens. I've also never understood how they can get away with just blurring out nipples on a woman, but not the rest of her breast. It would be like just blurring out the hole on the end of a guy's dick. But I digress.

VH1 is also looking to the Dutch series "Adam zkt Eva" as a model for success...

"[The nudity] was really a storytelling device that was about something — the search for true love and what happens when you throw away your inhibitions," Levison said. "And [producers Lighthearted Entertainment] really delivered that on the pilot. So I loved the fact that it was a big hook and it was noisy but also that there was something real and authentic driving it and really well pulled." (ed. I'm just going to leave that one alone)