Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Did ABDC run out of talent for Season 5?

New York Magazine's Intelligencer column  runs an article musing that reality shows have run out of talent. It cites America's Best Dance Crew twice as evidence:"Maybe the telltale moment came when, last month, MTV’s reliably entertaining reality contest America’s Best Dance Crew trotted out a crew that had failed to make the show in all four of the previous seasons...This season, not only did we see the crew of former also-rans, but another crew featured members who’d been bounced in Season One, while yet another has been imported from—gasp—Canada."