For the less technically inclined, Draw Something is a mobile phone game app that lets users, er, draw something. Now comes news that Ryan Seacrest's production company is developing a TV game show based on the app for CBS. The reaction on the web has ranged from skepticism to ridicule to hilarity, with various degrees of derision in between.
Time, for instance, notes that the app has already faded in popularity. The story takes obligatory shots at Seacrest's other "television gems" like Keeping Up With the Kardashians and grumps that TV networks must really be running out of ideas.
Frankly, TV networks ran out of ideas in 1955 or so. They're still running the same sitcoms and dramas and talk shows and game shows and whatnot that sold advertising time six decades ago. But I'm not sure why this particular rehash should necessarily end in disaster.
Win, Lose or Draw lasted for a few seasons, after all. Okay, it wasn't a classic or even very good. But watching people try to draw stuff can pass the time for TV viewers, especially when the drawings are humorously awful. Maybe Draw Something will flop if it ever gets on the air. Most shows do flop. But maybe it might draw (sorry) an audience. Some people even watched Keeping Up With the Kardashians.
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