Reality TV

Reality Show Stinks to New Lows

It's a good thing scratch and sniff programming doesn't exist because television viewers probably couldn't bear tuning into a new reality show planned to debut next week.

As it is, creators of the show are hoping to appeal to a few of your other senses.

In the show 10 neat freaks with obsessive compulsive disorders will compete for one cash prize by living holed up in a squalid two-bedroom apartment for three months.

The apartment's "contenants" or contestants/tenants will be required to live in the dwelling without the benefit of a garbage disposal. There is no running water in the bathroom shower and get this -- the apartment's lone TV works just fine, except for one catch - the remote control doesn't have any batteries.

Faced with these already difficult conditions, creators of the show have upped the intensity level one final notch for the tenants. The unlucky 10 are allowed to bring one favorite T-shirt with them to wear for their entire three month stay.

However, they are forbidden from washing or removing the T-shirt under any circumstances. The show aims to force each competitor into submission by requiring the neat freaks to vote themselves out of the apartment when they can no longer stand the conditions or smell of their T-shirts.

The last person in the apartment wins a bath and a cash prize.

"We've increased the stakes in this game," said Jared Farr one of the show's creators. "This has never been done in reality TV history before where contestant after contestant will be forced to eliminate themselves from a competition. Our goal was to find 10 people who are obsessed with cleanliness and find out how long they could stand their own stink and filth in the face of losing a ton of money. We should be commended for thinking of such a concept."

No one knows for sure how big the cash prize will be, however, the winner will be paid an hour for every hour he or she remained in the apartment. Players get no money after voting themselves out of the game. Worse yet when you vote yourself out, you must take off your T-shirt, toss it into a pile on the center of the floor and leave the grounds immediately.

"The elimination process offers a triple twist of misery," Farr said. "First, someone is leaving the apartment without any prize money. Secondly, they add to the remaining neat freaks pain by leaving the T-shirt right on the floor and last but not least the person going has to say good-bye to their favorite T-shirt. It's poignant, sophisticated and brilliant television."

Will viewers feel the same? That fact remains to be seen but network execs hope the dirty theme show cleans up in the ratings.

"Oh brother," said Ralph McDonald, who is anxious to see the show's premier episode, "this sounds like shirtvivor edition. I actually like the idea of the show. It's always good to see bickering, drama and backstabbing on TV. It makes me feel right at home."

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