I’m not even sure this is pissing me off, since there’s almost nothing good on TV lately. So I guess they had to be creative, the network people, and look for the next hot stuff on Twitter and other social media platforms.
First was shit my dad says, a twitter account of a guy that twits stuff his live-in 73-year-old dad says. This was such a popular twitter account that the guy actually got a book deal before he had the CBS guys on him with their pens an papers.
Then the CBS guys concluded this saved them lots of money and hussel dealing with scriptwriters that didn’t know what they were writing about, and they’ve opted don’t tell steve for a TV spot as well. This time it’s a guy bitching about his roommate (which is not too different from the guy living with his father, after all).
Question: why do we need CBS anyways? If the twitter accounts was so damn good, why turn it into something else? I don’t ask here why the CBS guys did what they did – it’s clear why – but why do we actually want to watch a processed product instead of simply hook up with the original version? Are we still so obsessed with the medium itself (TV) that we can’t simply let go and move on? Does TV really offers in this case something better?
No answers yet, but I stick to the original twits, better than any reheated-Campbell-shit any network can come up with.
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