Take it sitting down

Just sat through the CW's musical chairs epic Oh Sit, and I'm not a whole lot better for the experience. But I'm not a whole lot worse, either. It's not the most horrible stunt show I've seen, and it's not the least horrible.

My biggest problem was not enough stunt time. When the contestants shove and slide and flip and fight their way through the obstacle course, things get downright interesting. It's all the other stuff in the show that turns tedious. Hosts Jessi Cruikshank and Jamie Kennedy jabber way too much snark and snarl, and course-side reporter Tanika Ray adds to the yakety yak.

Once the contestants get through the obstacles and collapse into the chairs, the show also wastes too much time assigning dollar values to their cushy seats. And there are all sorts of goofy rules. One contestant got disqualified for something or other. At one point the show even stopped dead so some band could play some song. All in all, I doubt that I'll make Oh Sit must-sit-down viewing, but I don't wanna barf over it. By the way, the boy contestants wear blue jerseys, the girl contestants wear green. I guess pink was too sexist.

TV by the Numbers reports that the show got decent numbers by the CW's admittedly crummy standards: a 0.5 18-49 rating with 1.2 million total viewers.