WJEW-Channel 18, "TV
for your inner Jew," has announced its new season lineup of
reality shows. They include:
Joe Minyanaire
A good-looking young man goes to an
Orthodox singles event and tells girls he meets there that he davens
every day. Watch their reaction when they find out that he hasn't been
inside a shul since his bar mitzvah in 1986 and spends every morning
and afternoon at Starbucks!
American Sheitel
Viewers vote for the woman wearing the
best-looking head-covering.
Schmeer Factor
Contestants vie to see who is the bravest
by trying new bagel-and-cream-cheese combinations, such as shiitake
mushroom bagels with lemon-sunchoke cream cheese or tortellini bagels
with cilantro-pesto cream cheese. Filmed entirely in Lincoln! Park and
Lakeview.
The Rhea-Al World
Rhea and Al Goldberg, married 55 years, are
thrown together in a house in Miami Beach for a week with no TV. If
both survive, they move on to the next installment: an hour-long
trip in a Cadillac with no air conditioning. The excitement
never ends!
Don't Meet My Folks
Three Jewish men take their girlfriends
home to meet their parents. But watch out-one of the girlfriends is a
shiksa! Parents try to guess which son is in an interfaith
dating situation so they can throw him out of the house and threaten
to sit Shiva for him.
Jewish Survivor
Participants attend a round of Jewish
organizational fundraising dinners. Each week, one person is voted off
for falling asleep during the guest speaker, complaining about
the chicken being overcooked, eating three extra&nbs! p; desserts,
changing seats so he/she doesn't have to sit with Mr./Mrs . Schwartz,
snapping his/her fingers at the rabbi, who looks just like one of the
waiters, etc.
The final "Survivor" wins $1million-to be donated to his or
her favorite Jewish charity!
