As I sit watching reality TV, I understand it's draw. After all, I'm watching it aren't I? I really want to kick myself for watching it, because of why I watch it. When I tune in, mostly to reruns at off hours I believe that I tune in for the same reason that anyone watching these shows does - these people are train wrecks! It's not really even entertaining, but yet it's hard to look away in the same way that you can't help but glance over and rubberneck as you pass an accident on the highway.
Real life is definitely compelling and entertaining all on it's own. There is no need to trump up or exaggerate drama, relationships, scenarios or to throw in extreme amounts of wealth to be compelling television. Sure, I see the need that networks have to put on something that people will tune into to satisfy a curiosity about a segment of the population that they haven't experienced, but really, sometimes it feels like dumpster diving.
This is where The Real Bloggers of The Chicago Suburbs come in.
Check it. Bloggers are a segment of the population that are definitely growing in popularity, but that the masses do no yet understand and have a huge curiosity about. Only the blogosphere is a pretty remarkable place filled with real people and real relationships that start online.
The perfect candidates for a pilot would be The one and only Suburban Scrawl -Melisa(with 1s), Michelle of Honest and Truly, Dawn Meehan of Because I Said So, Rita aka MegRyansMom, Tracy of Just Another Mommy Blog and of course, myself.
We are all women bloggers in the Chicago suburbs, that met each other online through each others blogs. We are all from different back rounds, have different views on religion, are in different stages and styles of parenting and have extremely different personalities. Yet, we are all friends by choice who met each other through blogging. We have fun together, attend events together, plan lunches together and enjoy each others company immensely.
When we see each other, there is no backstabbing, cat fighting or hair pulling, even though there are few topics that we are in agreement on. There are home schoolers, alternative schoolers, public schoolers and private schoolers in this group. Some are green, some are PC and some are anything but. Yet, we are still friends.
When we get together there is more laughter than you can get at a comedy club. We play off of each other and with each other in ways that you would not expect such an eclectic group of women to be able to.
Individually, we are all compelling enough personalities and writers to have garnered our own followings of people who wait with baited excuse the hyperbole breath to see what we will write about next. We read each other and comment back and forth. We attend blogging events and conventions together and always have a great time.
We work together and pitch in when friends fellow bloggers hit hard times and go to the ends of the earth or at least Columbus when someone within the blogging community is in need and wind up featured in The Ladies Home Journal because of it even when we have never met them in person before.
If you ask me, I think that this would be highly compelling television that does not succumb to the least common denominator. It would be highly entertaining to follow each of our families and how they work and follow the bloggers as we laugh, enjoy and have fun with each other when we get together.
I can guarantee that you would never see a fist fight in the back of a limousine. Maybe that is a con for Bravo, but it's a Pro for me. We are a group of compelling women and families, without the need for extra drama. Life throws us enough of that on it's own, but when we do have drama happen, we band together to help, support and protect each other.
We are bloggers and these are our stories and our community.
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