from realitytvmagazine.com:

As if Hollywood’s not a circus enough as it is, ABC and NBC are both getting in on the action. Roll out the big top, guys, the circus is coming to town.

NBC has announced its plan to air Celebrity Circus, based on an Endemol format that’s been a huge hit in Portugal and Argentina, as part of its All-American Summer lineup.

Celebrity Circus, a competition-based reality show that will have “real” circus performers judging celebs on Cirque du Soleil-style circus stunts, promises to be “just as loud and noisy” as NBC’s winter slam-dunk, American Gladiators.

ABC is hoping that a new Circus of the Stars will catch on the way Dancing with the Stars has, and is in an intense bidding war for the show. Going for Dancing with the Stars-style drama rather than Gladiators-style boisterousness, ABC hopes Circus of the Stars will satisfy both the big top bug and reality fever.

which is funny for many reasons, but what i want to know is why the “quotes” around the word “real” before circus performers? is realittytvmagazine under the impression that real cricus performers don’t exist, that ABC will only hire “fake” ones, or that if you’re a circus performer you aren’t actually real?

anyway, in other “real” circus news…. we just announced the lineup for LIB08 today:

ps. the music player on lightninginabottle.org is live now too. go check out some “real” music.