Reality Show Idea: Celebrity Community Service

Celebrity criminal convictions are good for television. They scandalize, titillate, engross, and amuse. They provide good folks like you and me with the opportunity to say “tsk, tsk” to people making untold millions of dollars while being photographed talking on the diamond encrusted cell phones they received in the gift basket that was handed to them at the last red carpet event they attended.

And the mug shots alone can give any worn out working stiff with a bad perm something to feel good about.

Now, I ask you, what says Reality TV more than “Celebrity Community Service?”

Premise: Six well known celebrity offenders will compete for the opportunity to have one offense, for which they have been convicted, permanently expunged from their record.

They must live together in “The Pen” (a luxury house in the Hollywood Hills decorated in a style best described as “penitentiary chic”) for a period of thirty days. They will bunk three to a room. Their bed assignments will be identified by the framed renditions of their mug shots hung above, and said bed assignments will not be negotiable.

(I believe that Celebrity Reality TV contestants should always be made to live in a house together. No exceptions.)

There is one telephone, one television, and one bathroom.

Each and every movement of the contestants will be recorded by the film crew that monitors every room in the house, 24-7, by spy cams through out the abode, and by a personal camera, controlled remotely by producers, that each contestant must wear around his or her ankle.

The contestants will take meals together, participate in mandatory recreational activities together, and perform all their community service assignments together.

The liquor cabinet will be stocked (this is television).

There is no pool.