I really think I am the only non-Canadian watching this, and I may be the only person in the world blogging it

In the words of dreamy British duo Scarlett & Black, feeling exclusive can't be described, so I can’t share it...

I'm starting to get the feeling that the people making the Second City reality series from Canada realized, after already committing, what a bad idea it was for a weekly show. You can really feel them straining to fill up an hour.

It's a shame because I can believe the cast members have some talent (inasmuch as I can tell). But I'd much rather watch a documentary of them trying to put together a sketch show than the...detours this series keeps taking.

Especially when those detours come at the expense of presenting the cast members in a better light. Maybe it's my imagination, but I think they know it.

In the name of what was apparently felt would be "good reality television" (wrong) tonight's show devolved into a limp and dated Survivor parody. In improv, I have to believe that when Drew's Line Is It Anyway beats you to something, it's a bad sign.

(Even with a cast most of whom have at least some improv training and experience, this show is guilty of one of the marks of bad TV: Telling us things three times. Yes, okay guys, we got it that you punked the other cast members into believing you had a meal with Martin Short when you really didn't. Whoo! Good for you. But we got it. We got it, okay? We got it.)

(for some reason, the real, in-the flesh celebrity guests seem to have dried up).

No one's reading this (well, not no one, but I'll get to that in a minute). Still, I would say, if asked: Let us see more of the sketches. Let us-the people who are actually watching-decide who we'd eliminate or not.

I don't mean via an AI-style phone vote, necessarily, I just mean for ourselves. (Besides, even if they did it by phone, I probably wouldn't be eligible to vote, being in the US and all)

I am seriously starting to get the feeling that a documentary of what went on behind the scenes of this show would be better than the show itself.

BTW, I'm compelled to keep posting about this because Sitemeter and a comment or two indicates that people are finding this blog through searches for names of the cast members. I take these people to be friends and family of those cast members, or maybe the cast members themselves.

But whoever you are, to you: Hi! I'm still sticking with Jeannie Cole and Kayla Lorette as the ones I like most. But after this week that's more about stubbornness than because they were allowed to show me much--if any--of their improvising and/or acting stuff.

Once again though, on the bright side, the person eliminated tonight was the same one who I would have eliminated, were it up to me.

But I still hate the way they're trying to force Dave Thomas "as" Simon Cowell...