This is dumb.

post borrowed from sororitymom.com :

Every year since 1851 gorgeous, fashionable female American university students get together to invite a select few new members into their Sorority Chapter, a secret all-female club. For the first time ever British girls will have the opportunity to be a part of it, in E4's brand new reality show Sorority Girls.


Five all-American Sorority 'Sisters' are setting up the first ever Sorority Chapter in a British university city, Leeds. However, making it into a sorority is no easy matter. Potential new members must endure weeks of full-on challenges while remaining beautiful and perfectly turned out every single day.


Sorority Girls follows a truly original, formatted club as it transfers to the UK, and sheds light on all the weird rituals, unique traditions, tear-filled tantrums, in-fighting and attempts at sisterhood, making the ultra-exclusive and glamorous Sorority system accessible and attainable for British girls.


:rolleyes:

I just read through some of the blog postings on here is sounds different to me, like the house mom writes:

"The girls are all adorable and incredibly dynamic! All five of them are from different colleges and sororities – and seem to get along really well with one another. Filming will start tomorrow with move in day for the five “founders”. I will try and write as often as I can to keep you and your readers caught up on everything that’s happening – unfortunately, I won’t be able to post any photo’s of the actual filming until after we have finished….part of the contract I was told…sorry."

She also writes:

"We are on day four of filming and we are all looking a bit deranged due to the long hours we’re putting in. Day 2 and day 3 went until the wee hours of the morning (3:30 – 4 a.m.) which is of course way past this old girl’s bedtime! We have finished choosing the new PNR’s and the 16 of them move into the house today…so many cute British girls tried out – it felt like actual recruitment combining both tears of sadness and tears of joy. "

Oh found this link for a job posting when they must have been looking for the house mom:

http://www.sororitymom.com/wanna-be-...scameraaction/

"The role of the House Director on the programme is:
1. Veracity, British people have absolutely no sense of sororities, we are aiming to make the programme as true to life as possible.
2. To provide a different tone to the programme, 25 women between 18-22 on screen all the time could become tiring!
3. To mentor the girls, provide support and generally be someone for them to talk to. In each episode we’d like to have a segment in which the House Mother advises and councils the American Sorority Sisters as well as the British Pledges.
The House Mother will not participate in challenges or really any segments except formal dinners attending philanthropy events (but not participating) and her role as an advisor. So in summary we will not set up any situations which would be intended to embarrass our House Mother!"

:)

Found some photos and more information on the cast of the show.

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/sorority-girls

BetaGirl -

What sorority were you in? Whichever one, I assume you were a member of the Beta chapter from your username. Or are you a Beta Sigma Phi? If so, at what school? :)

I'm not sure that I want to see their "hidden talents"...

It's like the producers took the sorority life game from facebook and made it into a tv show. Gee, maybe I'll take gardens of time and turn it into a PBS archaeology special--so accurate and compelling! Sorority: yer doin it rong.

So it's a "made for TV" sorority? Yeah, this has sisterhood and longevity written all over it. But then we know no NPC sorority would do this. I've said before and I'll say again, real rush (including member selection) would be WAY too boring to ever put on TV and there's way too much opportunity for embarrassment to the organization. But I do think American style sorority life could work in England, if done correctly.

Unfortunately I don't think this program will encourage any GLO to come across the pond to even try Dubaisis, i can imagine this show will be another rubbish reality show, tasks and contests, and people get voted out, bitching, and drama.

I'm going to watch the first episode next week just to satisfy my curiosity, but i'm pretty sure i'll not be back to watch ep 2....

This. I want to know this.

Beta doesn't fit for the NPC groups at the university in Athens-Clarke County, GA (UGA) as far as I know.

Also, she's posted 9 times. One introduction and eight posts about this show, which sounds dumb.

Wanna bet this show's sorority is Beta something.

Nope - the post above noted that it's Sigma Gamma - for Sorority Girls.

See? Dumb.