Fox plans "Someone's Gotta Go"...a 1 hour, unscripted reality series centered on "layoff contests"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Fox orders downsizing reality series
'Someone's Gotta Go' features real-life company layoffs

By James Hibberd

April 8, 2009, 12:21 AM ET

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i974830d95caa5dbf5298c4dfb7681c93

"You're fired" -- but for real.

Fox has ordered a one-hour unscripted series that turns real-life company layoffs into a reality contest.

The show's working title is "Someone's Gotta Go." Employees are called to a meeting and informed there will be layoffs, but with a reality show twist: The staff will be allowed to determine who is fired.

The employees will have access to the company's internal information -- budgets, HR files, salaries, etc. -- to help make their decision.

It's the anti-"Apprentice": Instead of contestants vying for a dream job, they're fighting to keep the lousy one they already have.

[MrPerson]

1. Could they get more unfeeling?

[Ken Burch]

5. With Fox, they always could.

If they'd existed in 1939, they'd have had a reality show about excluding refugees from Hitler entitled "Somebody Named Goldstein Ain't Gettin' In", hosted by Charles Lindbergh.

[jeff30997]

2. Someone's Gotta Go:

Rupert Murdoch.Flush the fat turd.

[MrPerson]

3. I will watch just to see what sponsor I have to boycott.

[SpiralHawk]

4. The perfect republicon homelander game

Making merry while Americans get laid off.

Why do republicons HATE America and its honest, hard-working men and women, and love chickenhawk war profiteers like Cheney, AWOL Bush, and DraftDodgers Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Hannity and Beck

[Ken Burch]

6. Here's a picture of the show's host:

[Ken Burch]

7. Each night, I'tl be followed by the wacky new game show "Kick The Homeless!"

n/t.

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8. Guarenteed...

anyone with a family/"I have mouths to feed" will use that excuse as why they and someone else should get the ax first (and some sympathizers will cave in).