You know that web television has made it when they beat the Bravo to the punch on a new reality show.
On second thought, when that new reality show is AcuteTV’s Whorified! The Search for America’s Next Top Whore, Bravo probably passed on it a year ago. Creators Ann Marie Lindbloom and Jeff Venables arrived on the web series scene last year with Two Peas in Your Pod, which Forbes Magazine called one of the Top 15 indie series on Veoh.
Whorified! is a tongue-in-cheek reality show that adopts the conventions found in reality TV stapes like America’s Next Top Model, Project Runway, and Top Chef for a new show based around, well, the world’s oldest profession. The promo was posted about a year ago – looks like this show has been a long time in coming before its premiere on May 1st, setting the stage for drama, pitting businesswomen, housewives, and ladies from all walks of life together to compete for a shot at the title of Top Whore.
“Whorified! is an edgy send-up of reality T.V.,” said Lindbloom in a recent interview. “You call it train-wreck T.V. because you can’t look away. You get horrified and that is how we gave birth to this idea.”
Depending on where you fall on the taste spectrum, you’ll find the show – which appears to be a bunch of trashy jokes about prostitutes, pimps, and sex work wrapped up in a reality TV-esque package – horribly offensive or hilariously offensive. I suppose it says something that I heard Bobby Lee of MADtv infamy was involved with Whorified! and was immediately relieved to discover that he is not, in fact, playing an Asian hooker – his Connie Chung act was enough woman for me, thanks – but rather one of the “celebrity johns” on the show.
If this sounds like it’s up your alley (zing!) then go ahead and check this one out. Currently they have ten episodes done, with new ones every Monday and Friday through the end of the month.
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I watched the promo for “Whorified!” a year or so ago and really loved it! I waited with profound enthusiasm for the show because I had been hoping for SOMEONE to call out reality television and the title “Whorified” does that on it’s own! I enjoy seeing the layers of the story behind the production and the hookers unfold. So far there have been 7 released and I find myself laughing out loud, almost to the point of tears when I watch them (over and over). With all of the infinite content on the internet , I’ve only seen a few web series that I actually like and this is definitely one of them. I hope that they make it as outrageous and gritty as possible! It’s super fun to watch and I wish I could be on it! Call me crazy.
I don’t know. The show is meant to be offensive, but it is nonetheless funny. A little language, but the jokes are well-timed.
I’ve been completely drawn into the whole web series thing in the last four months and I’ve watched quite a few…”The Guild”, “My Two Fans”,
“Goodnight, Burbank”, “Easy to Assemble”, “You Suck at Photoshop” and many others…I have to say, “Whorified!” is the first one I’ve actually experienced belly laughs watching. Love the “upstairs/downstairs” parallel between the producers and the show contestants. Pretty impressive.
Thanks so much for covering us. You rule. We’ve had soooooooo much fun making this show. We had a big bash at Cinespace in H’wood to launch the series and have been getting great feedback since the series launched a little over a week ago. I hope my web TV creatin’ comrades and the web TV watching brethren will check it out and get “Whorified!” every Monday and Friday.
To recap, Whorified! is an edgy send-up of reality TV and its often irresponsible-seeming creators. In addition to following the rapid deterioration of the show’s “contestants,” Whorified! follows the behind-the-scenes behavior of reality TV producers struggling to create a hit series at any cost—human, not monetary, of course.
Web TVily Yours,
Ann Marie Lindbloom
AcuteTV
Co-Creator of “Whorified!”
Your right Pat Miller. WebTV has come a long way & “Whorified.com” has raised the bar. Well done AcuteTV, what a creative show. Redefining the term whore(s)–to Reality TV contestants and Reality TV producers whoring themselves to be seen. Whorified is hilarious!
Love the cast, the show is hilarious! I’m hooked on the hookers!
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