8:35AM Defamer Hollywood | Half the stories on this sluggish midsummer news day seem to concern the same bad idea at CBS:
Jingles, the Mark Burnett-produced product placement platform reality series squaring songwriters off against each other in the pursuit of… the perfect ad jingle. We can’t make this up, folks, and even if we could we probably wouldn’t want to — especially not the part in which the newsworthiest elements of the show are its judges: A
kerfuffle-plagued, ex-Wal-Mart marketing guru and — seriously, we’re too exhausted/sad/Dark Knighted-out to fuck with you —
Gene Simmons:
Simmons will be joined by an “advisory panel” that include Madison Avenue gurus Linda Kaplan Thaler and Julie Roehm. But Simmons will be the final authority on the show who decides which contestants are eliminated each week.
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