Prison's Got Talent

If there's one thing I've always thought, it's that jail is just choc full of creative souls dreaming of a way out of the big house, and a chance to dance. I'm not alone...

Investigation Discovery, the channel best known for running reruns of Dateline is reportedly working on two new, and not at all controversial, talent shows tentatively titled Talent Behind Bars, which would focus on finding a devil with the voice of an angel, and Dancing Behind Bars, which is about... dancing behind bars. Not on them, like the similarly dreadful The Ultimate Coyote Ugly which is in it's THIRD series in the US. Talk about criminal...

Back to the felony in hand, this frankly ridiculous PR nightmare was announced during the Television Critics Association's press tour on Friday.

Of course there's the initial outrage that criminals get to be on telly, even if they won't be "hardened" or particularly evil (they'll only feature the good kind of perp apparently), but my thought is more for the poor (bad) guys who are put IN the shows. I don't know if anyone's told Discovery, but inmates aren't keen on other inmates who are light on their feet and show artistic integrity.
They tend to get bummed in showers.

Did no-one else see Oz?

On the other hand, we could get week after week of this, which would be awesome.