My goodness, it was only a matter of time, PopWatchers: The Jackson Family finally has a reality show! I mean, there’s something so fitting, so… postmodern (I refuse to use the word "meta," by the way, because, well, it’s not actually a word) about the entertainment industry’s original dysfunctional clan following in the footsteps of The Osbournes and Britney and Kevin and Anna Nicole. Just delicious!
Anyway, this new CBS series, Pop Dynasty, won’t be a kind of "living with" dramedy like the aforementioned angst-fests. Rather, Jermaine, Tito, and LaToya will help find the next big musical family via an American Idol-esque competition, with Jermaine fronting a panel of judges that will grade the contestants on things like, oh, probably, their singing abilities, their star potential, and their supreme weirdness. (Actually, I wish I were kidding about that last part, but it’s kinda true: Read the story.) The show marks a return to the reality genre for the now unrecognizable LaToya, who made a mark in the recent Armed and Famous (pictured); most popular Jack-sibs Mike and Jan, of course, probably won’t be involved, and there’s no word on the other sister and brothers, including the original Randy Jackson.
So, yeah, thoughts? Am I the only one who’s left in a state of shock by this report? Does Pop Dynasty — whose title bears a startling resemblance to the UK series Pop Idol — strike you as anything more than yet another shameless AI ripoff? Will you tune in? And, good lord, who does LaToya look like these days?
Yow, it burns, it burns!
Lemme ask you – is Jermaine the only survivor of the Jackson Family Nose Massacre?
If so, I want to see a show on that!
I adored LaToya on “Armed & Famous” she was the best part of that crappy show. If she’s front and center on this new show it will be entertaining. One question: Why would anyone want to be the next Jackson family? They’ve had great success, but is all the hell they’ve gone through worth it?
No he is not. Jermaine had something done to his nose. I remember the Jackson Five when they started out. I also have their music and pictures. They only difference is, he did not take it too far.
Sorry for the typos. I meant to say, no he did not survive the knife of a surgeon. He had something done to his nose too. He just did not take it as far as Michael and Latoya.
Can’t this train-wreck of a family just go away?
LaToya, since you asked, now looks like puppeteer Shari Lewis.
Fall down laughing!
Then who’s Lambchop?
They just won’t go away will they? Like little roaches. No way, that idea is nuts!
Germaine is not Germaine anymore, he’s some kind of Moslem with a different religious name. Why are you writing his name as “Germaine”…I’ll do my research but I read that he changed his name.
It’s simple…LaToya is now Paula Abdul.
Michael WILL be on the show, dressed as his alter ego Latoya. I still think they are the same guy.
This idea is absolute manure.
I have a nose for such things……
it’s spelled Jermaine with a J.
So Far So Good
How could Latoya do this to her nose? The older she gets, the worse it looks. I feel sorry for her. MJ, you have no hope of ever recovering from your surgeries, but your sister may still have a chance of not having her nose fall off. It’s good that you have money to keep buying fakes to put over the one that is caving.