Showtime Announces "The Real L Word: Los Angeles" Reality Series

I'm not sure how I feel about this. I'm terribly critical of reality shows generally.

Message to Mama Chaiken: Since you're going to do this no matter what we say, try to get it right this time, please.

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Well this just sent a shiver down my spine.

All for Lesbian stories on TV but I prefer it when it's not reality or an overly used storyline i.e. the lesbian couple trying to have a baby or in the case of cop shows, the lesbian being the killer or just plain nuts.

Showtime could do better than reality

ilene needs to move on. its getting even more embarassing than it already was. as if the last season wasn't bad enough she has to stoop to reality tv depths. very sad. i think ilene really just wants to be the star of her own show.

I prefer to see Laurel Holloman and Jennifer Beals back soon.
I am really hoping for a good L- Word movie...

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For crying out loud, TLW wasn't good! So-so writing and so-so acting do not a spin-off-worthy series make.

Besides, I suspect the show will largely focus on the lives of monied, "fashionable," 30-something, white femmes. I endured six long, mediocre seasons of that. I want to see the diversity of our culture, including a real, live BUTCH/STUD, for goodness' sake!

Ilene Chaiken has exhausted her lesbian project. It's time for a new generation to take the torch -- by force, if necessary.

Either way, count me out for Ilene's latest masturbatory opus.

I just read this elsewhere and checked if that was "The Onion".

Then I checked the date.

Please tell me, that in the US the 1st of September is celebrated like the first of April?

Who greenlighted this?

Were people at Showtime on Crack?

Or maybe you can milk the Lesbian audience for ratings and Dollars with a low cost reality project.

Ungh.

Ilene Chaiken needs to go away already.

they should arrive at the auditions with their own wigs and spandex.

Reality show ladies tend to catagorize as whores,  exhibitionists, or foils for the whores and exhibitionists.   How could this possibly go wrong.

should I belive this.... btw ?

IC looks like a little elf herself in that pic .  haha.

Thanks IC for making something else for us.

Come on guys, cheer up . at least we have another show... and Magical-Elves made Project Runway and Top Chef .... so how bad can it be?! :  Not that bad

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If you weren't alive to see those tragedies, well, now we bring you 'The L Word: Los Angeles'!

Oh! The humanity!

Like we need another reality show. 

I foresee..... 

An epic FAIL.

I will probably watch the first couple of episodes to see the, "What else could this idiot fuck up?"

I cannot stand Reality TV. This means IC ran out of ways to screw everything up in a scripted way, so now she'll take a hatchett to the quasi-scripted lives of REAL (and I question that) Lesbians.

"If you're not on the rocket, you're just sittin' on the fence." - Suzi Quatro Back to the Drive

I know I'm not alone on this site when I say that I sorta kinda resent the fact that Chaiken is the one with her finger on the button here.

But, I actually don't think it's an awful idea.  If it were done with sensitivity and if it fairly represented our community without sensationalizing it, then I'd watch it.  The producers of Top Chef being involved gives me a bit of hope.  Chaiken's involvement, not so much. 

But who knows, maybe she's looking for redemption and will really turn this one out?

Just please oh please oh please...look for real people with real lives for this and not just a bunch of fame-hungry idiots that will do anything for the love of the camera.  I know it will be difficult to find such folks in LA, but it can be done.

Think less 'Fox' television more HBO documentary...

Why can't IC just give up? Is she so set on disappointing the few lesbians out there who haven't seen the L-Word finale or heard about it?

This is all going to go horribly wrong.... and I'm going to watch every second of it :D What can I say, it's like a truck heading for a cliff. You can't stop it, so you might as well watch.

That friend everyone has that just doesnt know when to shut up/leave.

She is seriously __ <-- that close to becomming this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeS-Xb5u4-U

Linked because i cant embed video...

This is just a bad idea.

I hope they pick actresses at least half as hot as the ones in the L word...

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I am sorry for raging..but does IC have some strange Confundus charm?

Ladies and Ladies, like PLEASE, there ARE Lesbian characters on reality shows out there.

There are other Lesbian shows out there.

I really don't know why so many people are happy to put up with Chaiken crap, saying that it's "the only thing out there".

It is not!

Maybe it is better advertised and more high gloss, but it's not the only stuff out there, and if you have ever turned on a TV, ever watched a TV show, you must realize how "In your face" deprecating "The L Word" was.

Sell out on ALL levels.

I simply do not understand how anyone could be happy about that waggon full of manure.

And there you have people flocking in droves to the masturbatory opuses (I betcha 50 bucks, that Chaiken will appear in this one..) while shows like 3way, Angela Robinson's babies, Fletcher, exes and Ohs, and soon even Venice will be out there, struggling for survival.

I know you can't argue about taste, but don't act like "Oh yeah"! finally a lesbian reality show..

And honestly, I'd rather have NO Lesbian reality show, instead of one, where we will be portrayed as sex crazed pretty kittens for the male eye again.

When there's no PbP announcements..

I'm not gonna watch a minute of it.I still haven't watched the last ep of The L Word, because I couldn't stand it anymore..

Insulting, that's what it is.

My two cents, sorry for raging..

Usually I have my opinions early on these kinds of things and vociferously express them.

However, in this case, and perhaps because Tibette-going-at it-in-an-elevator memories are currently clouding my judgment, I think I'll wait until I at least see a promo before I condemn.

This show is not even out yet. How can you be completely for OR against this if you haven't even seen an episode?! Chaiken has had both positive and negative feedback about The L Word and will no doubt use that to attempt to improve and build on her previous project.

I think it's rediculous that so many of you are condemning or applauding her on a project that hasn't even done its casting yet, let alone that you have any idea on the themes it will address.

Don't be so judging.