During the week TV3 announced their autumn TV schedule and among the many shows, is a new reality show set in Tallaght. The show is aptly named ‘Tallafornia’ a take on the popular ‘Jersey Shore’. So is it going to be a success? The gut instinct says no, Ireland has already copied The Hills with Fade Street and that was a complete crash and burn.
So why do they think this will be superior? With their unique selling point being “Four hot West Dublin boys & fabulous West Dublin girls will spend four weeks living, eating, working and partying together”. Can’t see this hanging around for that long, Irish people are very hard to impress and are extremely judgmental, good luck to the eight future reality stars, it’s going to be interesting.
We now have the Irish version of ‘The Hills’ and ‘Jersey Shore’, what’s next ‘The Kardashians’? So which Irish beauty could be the next Kim Kardashian? There is a few that spring to mind but not quite sure any will be able to captivate the world with their assets to the same extent!
The future of Irish TV is full of American story lines; let’s just hope it has more of Irish sense of humor then the American copycat version we have been seeing on ‘Fade Street’.
Tallafornia? This is the first I've heard of it! Irish television trying desperately to replicate American shows just does not work. There is a reason why reality shows such as The Hills or The Kardishans are successful amongst Irish people and that is because there is a safe distance between us to laugh and go 'Aren't they silly!'. When it's based in Dublin, the close to home aspect is just embarrassing and makes people worry if they are also like that. It may be humorous television; but purely in the 'laugh at' not 'laugh with' form.
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