Oh, sit down

A while back I heard about a Gurin Company game show pilot based on musical chairs. Yeah, it sounded like a weak joke to me, too. What's next, Million Dollar Ring-Around-The-Rosie?

But it turns out the woeful CW will take a flier on the show. The network for twenty-something lasses has ordered ten episodes of Oh Sit! - I swear that's the real title - for later this season. As James Hibbard sourly points out in the linked story, the CW has a solid track record of flops with unscripted shows. But hope springs eternal, or at least until next TV season.

The premise from the press release, as only p.r. language can describe it:

OH SIT! is a fun, high-stakes, high-octane musical chairs competition, in which 20 thrill-seeking daredevils race head to head through five physically demanding, obstacle course-style eliminations as they each compete to claim a chair, to the sounds of a live band. At the end of the hour, only one contestant will be left sitting triumphant to seize the cash prize.

Maybe I'm too cynical and the show will be entertaining enough. Really, I shouldn't prejudge. Host, premiere date, and further gameplay details will be announced later.

UPDATE: BuzzerBlog's Alex Davis saw the pitch film for the show and thinks it's pretty good. Wipeout-ish physical comedy. We'll see. Alex thought Improv-a-Ganza and Late Night Liars were great, too. Then the shows debuted, and you know the rest of the story.