Fans of The Real World, Big Brother, and Survivor will
likely be disappointed with the new reality series coming from LSU’s
student-run Tiger Television. The show, tentatively titled Living at LSU is
Neat, will document six students who are currently enrolled at LSU as they
go to class, hang out in the Union, and take part in various other mundane
activities that typical college students do.
“Two weeks ago at the staff picnic, we were talking about how Tiger TV
could compete with larger TV networks like ABC and CBS. Someone said
we all needed a big reality check, which made me think of a reality
show,” said show producer Jan Fontenot. “And since no one could come
up with anything more creative or interesting than just following
students around with video cameras, we decided to go with that angle.”
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Above: A screenshot
from a slightly interesting reality TV show that airs on a major network. You
will not see anything remotely as entertaining as this on Tiger TV. |
Tiger TV Station Manager Krystal Balsyc added, “It’s going to be both
fun and entertaining and fun to watch.”
Minimally answering any specific questions and offering only vague
descriptions, Fontenot said that students can expect Living at LSU
is Neat to throw the conventions of other successful reality
programs out the window.
“Hopefully,” Fontenot said, “Our show’s cutting edge, in-your-face
look at university life will attract the attention of potential LSU
students in other areas of the country. Our show will make them feel
like they live here already without them ever having to step foot on
campus.”
However, since Tiger TV’s channel is only broadcast locally to
on-campus television sets, the show will only be viewable to students
already living on LSU campus.
The Campus Dirt polled 8,000 LSU students about their desire to
watch a show about the lives of LSU students. Not surprisingly, all
8,000 students asked what Tiger TV was and said they would rather
watch syndicated reruns of the late-90’s hit sitcom Living Single.
Tiger TV, who conducted no polls of any sort, denies that this is poor
planning on their part and assures the student body that “the show
will definitely still go on.”
“You could call it a mistake,” Fontenot said. “But mistakes are what’s
kept Tiger TV on the air for hundreds of years. We are still going to
keep editing every excruciating second of boring footage that our
twelve cameramen bring in every day.”
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Above: An actual
live video feed from one of the dorm rooms that Tiger TV has "invaded" with
their cameras. Feel free to stare at them 24 hours a day. |
“We feel it is important for the staff of Tiger TV to learn how to
make shows. Even if nobody watches those shows,” said Balsyc.
Tiger TV recently allowed a media viewing of the hour-long pilot
episode. The first half of the episode slowly and thoroughly
introduces the six students, who happen to be Fontenot, Balsyc, and
four other Tiger TV employees. The episode’s second half is a simple
rock music montage composed of old LSU stock footage from football
games and snippets of random student camerawork.
After the viewing, Balsyc revealed that the four episodes that
comprise Living at LSU is Neat’s first season will cost around
$10,000 apiece to produce. The Campus Dirt reporter conducting
this interview, who has since been given a raise, told Fontenot that
no one would watch any of the Tiger TV shows, especially this one. He
then called Balsyc an idiot and spat upon a stack of Tiger TV
T-shirts.
As she violently ended the interview, Balsyc commented, “You know,
it’s nothing new that nobody watches our stupid shows. We waste lots
of time and money. But loads of university money is going to keep
funding us to waste more time, so we still feel very important in
university life.”
All of the above exchange will be included in Living at LSU is Neat’s
third episode, followed by a 20-minute long segment of one student
watching television and a 15-minute segment of another student doing
his laundry.
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