Coming soon to your TV: Celebrity War Games

[brooklynite]

[link: http://hardware.broadcastnewsroom.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=1962375|Broadcast Newsroom

LOS ANGELES (AP) ' A new TV competition series that tests celebrities against the demands of military exercises will be produced for NBC.

"Stars Earn Stripes" is the working title of the show from veteran producers Dick Wolf ("Law & Order&quot and Mark Burnett ("Survivor," ''The Voice&quot . Nine celebrities from music, sports and Hollywood will be paired with trainers at a "top-notch, secret training facility," the producers said in a statement Thursday.

The contestants will face weekly challenges such as hostage-rescue exercises or placing a laser target atop a mountain.

And presumably, at the end of each week the worst-performaning celebrity gets shot...

[pepperbear]

1. "You're on in 5, Mr. Busey."

[Drale]

2. I might actually watch this

it might be really funny.

[RC]

3. Isn't there a new show called "The Hunter" or "The Hunted" or some such?

Built around a not too distant future where there is a contest where people hunt people with real weapons. A Survivor type show with real human killing in it.

Our overlords are numbing us for the fate they have in store for us.

[brooklynite]

4. or, just good old Bead & Circuses...

Giving the public what they want has been a tradition for about 5,000 years.

[TBF]

5. Is this from the Onion?

nt

[NightWatcher]

6. I'm holding out for Celebrities vs Lions: Roman Redux

[longship]

7. Oh my Gawd

No wonder we elect idiots. This is a stunning idiocy.

[marybourg]

8. Not to my tv they're not.