ABC's The Bachelor & True Beauty

Television is coming out of its Holiday doldrums. As in some new shows are starting up.

I sometimes can get hooked on good train wreck reality type TV shows. Tonight starts up yet one more iteration of ABC's The Bachelor. This time the bachelor is that guy who got jilted by that annoying Deanna Pappas woman, who chose a snowboarder over Jason Mesnick, he being the new Bachelor.

The greasy-haired snowboarder, I think his name was Jesse and Deanna are no longer pretending to be a couple. This new Bachelor guy, Jason, has a kid. He has been married. He is from up in the Seattle zone, Kirkland, I think. People report, from up there, that Mesnick has said he is engaged.

So, this time I guess he doesn't get rejected when he proposes. The Bachelor version of this train wreck is more fun to watch than The Bachelorette version. To me, one guy going after a large number of women seems less unseemly than one girl going after a large number of guys. And when it's all those guys together in one house, they seem to get along way too well. Where with the woman, there is sure to be several nutjobs and some good catfighting.

I sort of got why that Deanna Pappas girl rejected Jason. To me there was something just a bit too needy about him. He got on my nerves.

So, The Bachelor comes on at 7 in my time zone, that being Central. At 9 a new reality show called True Beauty starts up. The premise is a group of hunks and dolls think they are in some sort of beauty contest thing, when in reality the judges, Cheryl Tiegs, Vanessa Minnillo and Nole Martin, will be judging them on their inner beauty, rather than how they look. The previews look pretty funny.

9 is late TV viewing for me. That's what the DVR is for. True Beauty is produced by Tyra Banks and Ashton Kutcher. Ashton Kutcher is repsonsible for some pretty rude TV, but his Beauty and the Geek doesn't have a mean-spirited edge to it. It's actually kind of good. And not really in a train wreck sort of way.