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2/18: An offbeat CBS casting call, “Kid Nation” dead?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Most casting calls in town from TV shows are of the more frivolous category: dancers, singers, the next Trump “Apprentice” and the like. “America’s Got Talent” is at AmericasMart this Sunday and Monday.
But CBS has posed a new one for this Wednessday. No name yet for the show itself. The pitch verbatim:
Have you been a victim of a crime in the Atlanta & Clayton County area? Do you want help?
Are you still fighting to get justice against the offender?
A new CBS television series is coming to town, and looking for families, individuals, or organizations with real problems in need of real solutions.
Our team of the nation’s leading law enforcement officials can solve crimes, clean up neighborhoods, and bring bad guys to justice.
If that’s what you need, tell us your story! Bring photographs, legal documents, police reports and any other information you may have.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20th, 2008, 9AM-9PM
Renaissance Concourse Hotel 1 Hartsfield Center Pwky Atlanta, GA 30354
If you are not able to attend, please call anytime: 323-595-0712
In other CBS news, the show that got all sorts of gratuitous ink last fall “Kid Nation” appears to be a goner. Newsday reports that the show, which featured several delightfully fun Georgia kids, isn’t on the 2008-09 lineup. The show didn’t do particularly well in the ratings, averaging 7 to 8 million a week. That’s relative to CBS’s other shows. I got a kick out of it, especially spoiled but always quotable Taylor and amusing Jared. It was Divad’s parents that complained about the show’s treatment of th ekids and helped generate all that pre-show ink. There were questions of labor laws broken and injuries sustained. In the end, it was much ado about not much and viewers shrugged their shoulders, too.
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By T
February 18, 2008 12:37 PM | Link to this
Maybe the folks in Clayton County should ask the CBS people to take care of the school board…
By Neil
February 18, 2008 5:23 PM | Link to this
Kid Nation is over…Deal With It!
By Parsley
February 18, 2008 8:20 PM | Link to this
reality tv has ruined tv. bring back the murder she wrote, magnum pi, etc. damnnit!!! why does vh1 has to air one show 10 times a day, seven days a week. if you miss it when it first comes on, too frickin bad dude.
By Katie
February 19, 2008 7:29 AM | Link to this
There’s enough crap on TV, people need to pick up books. We don’t need any more trash TV. Let the justice system work without television interference. No wonder why people are getting dumber and dumber, they have their eyes glued to the moron-vision.
By Elizabeth
February 22, 2008 4:57 PM | Link to this
If you want to keep KN on the air, send a red, blue, green, or yellow bandanna here NO LATER than March 20th.
Leslie Moonves President and Chief Executive Officer, CBS Corporation CBS Television Network
51 West 52nd Street New York, NY 10019
And/or sign the petition, here:
tp://www.gopetition.com/petitions/kid-nation-2.html
Some kids from the show have signed it.
By Rob and katie
March 3, 2008 12:54 PM | Link to this
Oh my (our) goodness! This cannot be happenning! Rob and Katie are already in the midst of planning their Season 2 Premiere Party Bonanza Extravaganza Bash. This absolutely cannot be happenning. And it isn’t. According to our dear friend, CBS Executive Walter Hugo, no realtion to the author of Les Miserables, Victor Hugo, Kid Nation is indeed coming back for a second season. So chill out, especially you, Elizabeth. First you dirty up our forum with all of your talk of sending bandanas and such, and now you have moved your horrible vandalism to this good page? Shame on you. However, as we have no authority on this website, we cannot tell you to “get out of town” aka go away and never ever return, but we strongly advise that you do so.
Peace&&Love
-Rob and Katie
By Rob and katie
March 3, 2008 12:56 PM | Link to this
Oh my (our) goodness! This cannot be happenning! Rob and Katie are already in the midst of planning their Season 2 Premiere Party Bonanza Extravaganza Bash. This absolutely cannot be happenning. And it isn’t. According to our dear friend, CBS Executive Walter Hugo, no realtion to the author of Les Miserables, Victor Hugo, Kid Nation is indeed coming back for a second season. So chill out, especially you, Elizabeth. First you dirty up our forum with all of your talk of sending bandanas and such, and now you have moved your horrible vandalism to this good page? Shame on you. However, as we have no authority on this website, we cannot tell you to “get out of town” aka go away and never ever return, but we strongly advise that you do so.
Peace&&Love
-Rob and Katie
By Josh Rosen
March 8, 2008 9:36 PM | Link to this
If the show hadn’t been so obviously “scripted”, and if they hadn’t so blatantly played favorites, I think they’d have gotten better ratings. It was a good concept for a show…I wish CBS had actually trusted it, and produced the show that they had advertised.
By Taylor
April 1, 2008 8:19 PM | Link to this
This show was awsume but what is happening to kid nation 2? When does it air?
By Elizabeth
April 1, 2008 8:19 PM | Link to this
This show was awsume but what is happening to kid nation 2? When does it air?
By Elizabeth
April 1, 2008 8:19 PM | Link to this
This show was awsume but what is happening to kid nation 2? When does it air?
By Elizabeth
April 1, 2008 8:21 PM | Link to this
When will Kid Nation 2 AIR? Is it still gonna be on?
By Elizabeth
April 1, 2008 8:24 PM | Link to this
When will Kid Nation 2 AIR? Is it still gonna be on?
By Elizabeth
April 1, 2008 8:24 PM | Link to this
When will Kid Nation 2 AIR? Is it still gonna be on?