Here's the gimmick: it's one of those America's Next Top Whatever shows where you take twelve people and keep them in a warehouse dressed to look like a loft. Except instead of cooks, hair stylists, or pet hair stylists, it's people who play a lot of video games. At this point, I'm not that interested in watching, because "a bunch of people in a small apartment, talking smack and playing videogames 24 hours a day" is something I've already lived. But they've cleverly decided to cast attractive people, which improves the watchability considerably. And then they carefully picked people with a diverse appeal, providing you like people who look like they all shop at Hot Topic.

Of course, "video games" covers a pretty wide range. That means that each episode has people saying things along the lines of "I'm great at first-person shooters. But I don't know what I'm doing with this Rock Band nonsense!" That's fun, because although I already tend to feel superior to people on reality shows, I can say with confidence that I can roll out of bed and do better than some of these alleged Professional Gamers at Rock Band 2. In fact, after I watched the Rock Band 2 episode from my bed, I went straight to the XBOX 360 and doubled the score of the person who got eliminated that week. I rock! At a video game!

The show isn't all video games. The big twist is that the gamers have to recreate the activity in real life. So the Rock Band episode started with the gamers having to form actual bands and then play the Donnas' "New Kid in School" in a real club in front of fake fans. And the actual Donnas were the judges, which I thought was pretty cool.

Anyway, this show is terrific. The only drawback is that people will probably walk into the room while you're watching and complain about how terrible it is. That's been my experience, anyway.