Today's Blind Items - The Menudo Of TV

This show has been on the air for well over three decades. It caters to young children up to about tweens and is shown after school. As far as I know, it is only shown in North America, and mostly north of the border. The creators of the show wanted the hosts of it to realize right away they were expendable. They didn't allow the hosts to use their real names. They forced them to use names the creators made up. They didn't allow the hosts to take any outside work. They wanted them dependent on the creators for their jobs. They would often bring in different hosts and fire someone just randomly, and for no reason. They wanted the hosts on edge and always willing to do anything to make the creators/producers happy. This included sleeping with the producers. If you didn't do it, you would be fired. Even if you did everything they wanted and asked, they would usually fire hosts after a year because they would either get bored having sex with them or they didn't want the host to get too famous or too well known where they could afford to leave the job. Over the years, the original creators and producers were pushed out of their jobs and hosts began to use their real names and were allowed to take outside jobs. The original sets of hosts rarely got work because there were so many shuffled in and out of the jobs that their performances never really stood out.