NBC officially destroys the last shred of human dignity

NBC isn't doing an upfront presentation in New York -- the network unveiled its fall schedule last month -- but its executives apparently felt some remorse about wasting an opportunity to induce mass horror and revulsion among advertisers and TV writers. So it chose upfront week to announce a new program that will premiere right after its coverage of the Beijing Olympics: Are You A Mama's Boy?, a reality show in which smothering women will choose wives for their Oedipally crippled sons. This blog can be...oh, let's say glib, but unfortunately this item is entirely true. So is the fact that Are You A Mama's Boy? is being produced by Ryan Seacrest, which should be fair warning to American Idol viewers about what prolonged exposure to Paula Abdul does to the human brain.