A 'Desperate' Copycat
If viewers of last night's premiere of "Tuesday Night Book Club" on CBS thought they had stumbled onto a re-run of "Desperate Housewives," their confusion is understandable. The new summertime series appears to be a direct ripoff -- down to the music and the voiceover -- of the ABC hit, only with "real people" rather than actors.
The show follows in the footsteps of such reality-narrative hybrids as MTV's "Laguna Beach" and Bravo's "Real Housewives of Orange County." However, the producers of "Book Club" seem to have decided that imitation (or outright mimicry) is the sincerest form of flattery, and as a result the parallels between their show and "Housewives" are striking.
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