My main complaint was pace. The basic idea was old but okay, pretty much the same as other survey-based shows. The show polled a thousand-plus sample on gripping issues...like whether you've ever sucked a sex partner's toes. If the show had moved along briskly, the silliness might have been halfway or maybe a quarter-way bearable.
Trouble is, they pounded every question into the ground and then dug it up and pounded it back into the ground again. Contestants Scot and Charlë didn't just have to figure out if toe-sucking was "normal" (done by more than 50% of the poll sample). We also had to get street interviews on toe-sucking. Plus views on toe-sucking from the "poll posse," ten members of the poll sample who turned up onstage. Plus extensive comments on toe-sucking from the show's hosts. By the time we had moved on to another question, I was almost sucking my own toes in sheer, screaming boredom.
The money wasn't huge, but this is cable and not even big-time cable. Host Barry Poznick was irritating, and co-host Kim Coles didn't do much. At least that kept her from grating on my eardrums like Poznick. OWN has well-publicized ratings problems, and this effort probably won't help much.
One mostly irrelevant note: there are 4,328 pictures of Oprah Winfrey on the OWN web site. I counted them. Had to do something while the show dragged on.
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