CBS CONTINUES TO THROW SHADE AT ABC FOR RIPPING OFF BIG BROTHER

I've been avoiding talking about this for the past few weeks because I thought it was beyond petty and childish, but this story was too damn juicy to pass up. Ever since ABC announced that they were creating a reality show called The Glass House, rival network CBS has had their tits in a bind because they feel that it is too similar to their own reality show Big Brother. CBS even went as far as to file papers in court to have THE LAW MAN put their hater blockers up against their rival for copyright infringement, to which they refused and allowed the show to air as scheduled (which was this past Monday). For the record I did not watch because I don't find shows like Big Brother or The Glass House interesting.

So with that being said, CBS, who are stil lstark raving mad over the fact that ABC won the round of getting the green light felt the need to throw a little shade in the form of a cunty press release via Deadline:

CBS ANNOUNCES DEVELOPMENT OF “DANCING ON THE STARS,” AN EXCITING AND COMPLETELY ORIGINAL REALITY PROGRAM THAT OWES ITS CONCEPT AND EXECUTION TO NOBODY AT ALL



Los Angeles, June 21, 2012 – Subsequent to recent developments in the creative and legal community, CBS Television today felt it was appropriate to reveal the upcoming launch of an exciting, ground-breaking and completely original new reality program for the CBS Television Network.


The dazzling new show, DANCING ON THE STARS, will be broadcast live from the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, and will feature moderately famous and sort of well-known people you almost recognize competing for big prizes by dancing on the graves of some of Hollywood’s most iconic and well-beloved stars of stage and screen.


The cemetery, the first in Hollywood, was founded in 1899 and now houses the remains of Andrew “Fatty” Arbuckle, producer Cecil B. DeMille, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Paul Muni, Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel, George Harrison of the Beatles and Dee Dee Ramone of the Ramones, among many other great stars of stage, screen and the music business. The company noted that permission to broadcast from the location is pending, and that if efforts in that regard are unsuccessful, approaches will be made to Westwood Village Memorial Park, where equally scintillating luminaries are interred.


“This very creative enterprise will bring a new sense of energy and fun that’s totally unlike anything anywhere else, honest,” said a CBS spokesperson, who also revealed that the Company has been working with a secret team for several months on the creation of the series, which was completely developed by the people at CBS independent of any other programming on the air. “Given the current creative and legal environment in the reality programming business, we’re sure nobody will have any problem with this title or our upcoming half-hour comedy for primetime, POSTMODERN FAMILY.”


“After all,” the spokesperson added, “people who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.”

While this has to be hands-down the funniest press release I've ever read, how about CBS do what no one else is doing right now and focus on creating original content, because let's be frank everything on TV right now is a rip-off of something we've all seen before. ABC may have won the battle to air The Glass House, but CBS hands-down won the war with words.