Reality programming next season has a decidedly scientific theme, I can't wait!!!

'Pimp My Apparatus'- PBS

In each episode of this fresh new program, egg-head extrodinaire (Dr. Kevin 'spaz-man' Wilberman) visits an underfunded physics grad student and helps the students 'trick out' their crude home-made experimental apparatuses with the coolest and hippest cutting edge technology available. Watch research go from dry to fly as the Spaz-man puts the 'Funk' back into 'Functional'.

In episode one the Spaz-man visits a struggling Atomic physics grad student at Rice University and helps him 'Pimp' his time-of-flight electron energy spectrometer out TO THE MAX! Watch as the spectrometer is tricked out with carbon coated polished molybdenum eletrostatic field plates to reduce patch effects, Gold plated mu-metal shielding to reduce magnetic fields, and 10^-11 torr compatible Kapton coated wiring. The coup de grace is the addition of a totally bitchin' model 7187 CAMAC TDC with PC interface for recording of electron flight times. You will be on the edge of your seat as the spectrometer goes from flat to PHAT!!!

'Science Survivor'- FOX

What happens when you pit the greatest scientific minds of our century against the superstars of professional wresting? MORE ROCKIN' ACTION THAN YOU CAN STAND! To the victor go the spoils. You cannot afford to miss the gripping 7 round deathmatch that led to Hulk Hogan winning the post of 'Lucasian Professor of Mathematics' from Dr. Stephen Hawking!

'The Assistant' - FOX
Watch a group of graduate students compete to remain in one of the toughest graduate physcis programs in the world!

'Physics Factor' - PBS
Watch as young physics students take on grueling challenges that press their minds and bodies to the limit! Challenges include surviving a week without sleep, living only on coffee and Ramen noodles, while teaching physics lab courses, doing complicated research and studying for their comprehesensive exams!

'The Real World' - MTV
What happens when you take four leading scientists trained in rational thought and make them live with four raving pseudoscience loons? It stops being polite and it gets REAL! Scientists Steven Weinberg, Phil Plait, Richard Dawkins, and Seth Shostak take up residence with Richard Hoagland, Nancy Lieder, Linda Moulton Howe, and Art Bell for six months in a communal dorm. Can they live together? Buy the DVD to see the candid interviews with the two survivors.

'The Bachelor (in physics)' - NBC

One student with a B.Sc. in physics must choose their graduate advisor from 20 different physics professors- their choice will determine their future carreer path! The stakes are high!