People love a good “fish out of water” story. And, what’s more fun than a contrived situation in which the “fish” is a dubious celebrity motivated by the lure of a payday and an insatiable desire to somehow stay in public eye? These shows are like a cross between pulling the wings off a fly and the old tavern game of making the drunkard sing and dance for his next libation. Good times.
CMT was so impressed by the performances of Maureen McCormick, Bobby Brown and Carnie Wilson, in the series “Gone Country”, that they have conjured up a new, unlikely scenario featuring the trio.
They will join forces to run a bed and breakfast in rural Tennessee. The eight-episode series kicks off with “Brady Bunch” veteran McCormick stumbling upon an inn that overlooks the Great Smoky Mountains and decides to lease it with the option to buy.
Marcia Brady is out tooling around the Great Smoky Mountains and happens on a bed and breakfast and decides to buy it and go in to business. Wasn’t that the Bob Newhart Show? The second Bob Newhart Show, not the one where he played a shrink. You know, Larry and my brother Darryl…
Upon realizing the gravity of this undertaking, McCormick brings in Brown and Wilson to help her: McCormick takes over management of the inn and property, R&B singer Brown becomes entertainment director, and Wilson (of Wilson Phillips fame) assumes the role of master chef.
Entertainment director at a bed and breakfast?
Nice work CMT.
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