A little money

Hollywood Junket checked out the first taping of Are You Normal America, the new poll-driven game show from OWN. (That's Oprah's network, which has been taking its lumps from the Nielsen Company.)

Barry Posnick and Kim Coles co-host. The format sounds like a low-budget Power of 10. Contestants try to guess if behavior is "normal" based on polls of the Great American Unwashed. Sample questions: "Is it normal to spy on your neighbors?" "Is it normal to have had sex in a room other than the bedroom?"

So much for the format. Hollywood Junket notes that the show is designed for, shall we say, inexpensiveness.  Or as the report says:

There is an unlikely chance that any contestant will be able to win the grand total or even the extra $10,000 or $20,000 in the bonus round for that matter. This keeps the show very low budget with most contestants potentially just walking away with the $8,000 or less from the first round.

Welcome to cable. And fringe cable at that. It's not like OWN has a ton of bucks to throw around. Ask Rosie O'Donnell. She's already had to pare the budget of her chatfest on the network.