Last night NBC premiered its summer reality show I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here, a show where a group of reality-show and would-be celebrities rough it in the jungle in order to earn money for charity.  The show, at its core, is a cross between Survivor, Big Brother, and a little bit of VH1’s old Surreal Life series.  And just to keep you up to speed, the idea isn’t a new one.  The show is based on a British series called Celebrity, that has been very popular in the UK.  But NBC’s version has definitely been Americanized, and in this case I don’t really mean that in a good way.
The celebrities are your typically group of reality TV stars such as Sanjaya Malakar (American Idol) and Janice Dickinson, who’s done Surreal Life, the British version of the show, Celebrity, and currently
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