5:50AM Defamer Hollywood | ABC has a big, dumb hit on its hands with
Wipeout, which, despite a 5% drop from its premiere, finished second once again this week behind
America’s Got Talent. Alas, the network’s would-be monopoly on lowest-common-denominator horseshit is threatened today as word gets around that ABC might be hewing a little too close to Spike TV’s own padded-obstacle-course mash-up
MXC. Spike is apparently
taking the lift in stride, but MXC’s co-creator has his own theories; after all, a rip-off would be one thing — the nets are built on them these days.
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