
If Lifetime is intent on gaying up its programming shelf, then Spike TV is going on a testosterone binge. They're launching three unscripted pilots, plus signing deals with wrestling champ and former Olympic gold medalist Kurt Angle, who will host Caught in the Action, a hidden-camera show, while Cade Courtley, the actor and former Navy SEAL officer, gets behind "Surviving Terror." [MP] Sound man enough to you? It sounds a little something else to us. CONTINUED »
Viacom's Spike TV is paying $12 million for a five-year license to air all 257 episodes of Married…With Children, the sitcom that taught parents not to let their children go to sleepovers. [Variety]
Steve-O, whose impeccable credentials include urinating on the red carpet and bragging about failing to seal the deal with Nicole Richie, has apparently proven to be more of a drunken lout than even Spike TV anticipated.
"After arriving in Vegas to tape the show at the Mandalay Bay, [Steve-O] 'started pulling down his pants and flashing women while holding two cocktails in one hand. He was escorted from the property by security - making it impossible for him to present at the [Video Game Awards].'"
As a result, the channel geared towards immature adolescent boys and stoned fraternities revoked his invitation to present at the esteemed awards show though, ironically, it was Steve-O's penchant for jackassery that garnered him an invitation to the classy Las Vegas affair in the first place.
Meanwhile, some were said to be encouraged by Steve-O's irresponsible drinking tendencies and habit of subjecting innocent onlookers to unwanted glimpses of his nether regions. Rumor has it reps at MTV are eying the scrotum-stapling reality show burnout as the opening act for next year's VMA's.
