Living With ED, not good

OK, I’ll admit it. After a long day of shopping, I was looking for anything to watch on TV when I ran across Living With Ed on HGTV.
The reality show centers on life at the ultra energy-efficient home of actor and conservation activist Ed Begley Jr. Let me tell you, this one is a noodle scratcher.
Begley is a nut when it comes to equaling out the balance between man and Mother Earth. He rides an exercise bike to generate electricity to make toast, he has solar panels on every roof of his home, he has two solar-powered ovens, he drives an electric car ... you get the picture.
His wife, actress Rachelle Carson, can’t stand it (bringing about the necessary drama needed for a reality show to work). In last night’s episode, Begley buys a big, orange plastic barrel to collect rainwater in to irrigate their Studio City yard.
He tells his wife he has to do it because she takes long showers (it actually showed him outside of the washroom timing her taking a shower). She couldn’t stand them, because they were ugly and didn’t match their white house.
Now a normal person would have just gotten some spray primer and paint for plastic and painted it white, but not Ed Begley. He kept putting it back out there when Rachelle wasn’t looking. Wacky, wacky I tells ya!
This went on for some time, I had to get something to eat, and the show ended with little resolution.
Is this what counts today as reality drama? A bucket? At least Omorosa (of Apprentice fame) lied on camera, costing her boss the game in the final round. That’s drama - this is a bucket! A BUCKET!

2007 will be the year reality TV dies, especially if this is the best it can do.

While HGTV has been behind a lot of winners (I Want That, House Hunters, Divine Design), Living With Ed is a big loser.

Photo courtesy of HGTV.

If you are interested, you can find out more about Living With Ed by clicking HERE.