New Fox reality show to let you imagine your favorite celebrities be doomed in space
William Shatner will host Stars On Mars, which asks: What would happen if we sent our famous people into the lethal inky blackness of the void?
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Space is a bad place for people to stay alive in; it’s one of the main reasons we don’t live there. (Also, the commute’s an absolute pain in the ass.) And while it’s a fun enough destination to visit in our imaginations, if we’re being honest, our imaginations are pretty much shot at this point. And so we beseech Hollywood: Could you do us a solid and let us maybe imagine some famous people living there, instead?
Luckily, Fox has taken our incredibly lazy brains’ best interests to heart, announcing today Stars On Mars, a new reality competition series in which people at a “Fox reality show” level of famous get together to do fake space missions. (Presumably minus the bit where they float off, untethered, into the inky blackness of the void, screaming for what will, for them, feel like an eternity before the air runs out.) And also, William Shatner is hosting it, because he’s the first person who loads in when our brains try to think of a “Space guy”!
The series will see several famouses living together in a “space station,” competing in various space simulator-style challenges; from the description, it sounds like the show will be using a weekly elimination format, so, hey: Maybe we will get some of that Gravity-style/forcibly jettisoned horror after all!
A Fox exec issued a statement about the show today, noting that, “Watching celebrities take giant leaps out of their comfort zone and step into the” unexpected will no doubt be truly transformational and comical.” And speaking of that “comical” side of things, here’s a press statement attributed to Shatner; feel free to join us in the mental exercise of deciding whether it’s more sad if he did actually write it, or didn’t: “Thanks to lower gravity on Mars, you’ll weigh 62% less. Bad news: the air is unbreathable, so if you’re from LA, it’ll remind you of home.” Sadly, “Shatner” did not go on to talk down the merits of space plane food, or the problems of having to spend time with your mother-in-law… in space!
No word yet on who the contestants will be on the show’s first season; the series debuts in June.
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I doubt if I’ll recognize any of these “famous” people. How will they simulate an environment without gravity, is one question that comes to mind. It sounds like there are zero stakes here, as far as challenges go. Viewers want to see people on desert islands or the thickety, remote wilds, eating bugs and scheming against each other to see who can get a spa treatment.
So, basically:
he’s the first person who loads in when our brains try to think of a “Space guy”
Speak for yourself
Anyway, I hope this show devolves into Shatner fully collapsing into his space induced nihilism, crying throughout each episode and making all the guests incredibly uncomfortable.
The Sisko is also an acceptable answer.
Mrs Columbo!?
May the force live long and prosper.
If you think about it, we do live in space but on the one singular island we evolved to survive on. We’re so tuned to living on this planet that it seems like it would be a really stupid idea to try to move somewhere else instead of fixing the problems we’ve created, but what do I know? I never bought someone’s company then got all the credit for it.
I mean that’s the rub isn’t it. The amount of time, money and effort to establish a second planetary home for humans could probably be better spent saving the home we already got. I’m a sci-fi nerd who’s dreamed of space travel since I was a baby but I’m also realistic and the resources are better spent trying to fix shit here.
“New Fox reality show to let you imagine your favorite celebrities be doomed in space”What the hell kind of sentence is this?Anyway, what’s the bet that exactly zero of my favorite celebrities will be on this show? Though Lou Diamond Phillips was on “I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here,” so anything’s possible.
So basically this is to catch all the C list celebs desperate for work but not willing to put on a hot as hell suit and sing?