New TV show based on Greek Life

[Kevin]

I don't even get the ABC Family channel. I was going to DVR this thing but I couldn't seem to locate it.

-- it's a channel, right?

[33girl]

Pat Robertson's fault

[RutgersPIKE]

The next major plan was to reposition the channel to market it to college students, young women, or to a more hip audience under the name XYZ, a reverse reference to ABC. Disney soon found that the channel could never be renamed as such. The sale from CBN contained a stipulation from Robertson that the channel contain the word "Family" in the name forever, no matter who owns the network. To create XYZ, the Family Channel would have had to cease to exist - terminating all existing cable TV contracts - and XYZ would have to be created as a new network. Cable companies would not be obligated to put XYZ in the spot vacated by the Family Channel. ABC scrapped the idea after discovering this clause.[2].
The name was revisited at one point, serving as a program block entitled "The XYZ".



Thats why the name family is in it, one of the agreements of the sale was to keep family in it

[crazyrob]

Originally Posted by Styrofoam

"Hey!! you're in Kappa Sigma, right? The one with the 'K' and the 'E'???"
Uh.. no, actually, its a K and a Sigma, which is S.
"oh, well, you know what i Mean, it looks like an E"
Not really. Epsilon looks like an E. For an example, go look at the Tau Kappa Epsilon House. That is an E.
"whatever. It still looks like an E."
okay, we're done.

--"Triangle X"
Me: "No not it's Delta Chi"

[RutgersPIKE]

Originally Posted by crazyrob

--"Triangle X"
Me: "No not it's Delta Chi"

ive heard the delta chis at rutgers get asked if they like to play playstation cause they thought that the delta chi stood for the triangle x buttons on the ps controller, no lie

[BGbeauty]

I actually didn't get to see the show until today (thank you Tivo!) and I really have mixed feelings on it. On the one hand, I like the basic plot line. On the other hand, it shows a skewed portrayal of Greek life (although not as skewed as others I've seen). It basically takes the media's ideas of Greek life and throws in a little bit of truth. It also portrays fraternity life in a more positive way than how they show sororities: portraying the usual "bitchy, stuck up, stupid" sorority life that we've come to expect from the media.
Part of me feels upset that it's just another portrayal from outside of the Greek community that is going to add to the negative stigma we've already got, but part of me wants to give it a chance and hope that it will actually do some good...

[Soliloquy]

Oh! Another big plus, even if she plays the foil to Casey on this show, the new "it" girl- Rebecca is Pakistani.


That greatly pleases me. She was probably one of the better actresses during that whole show!

[Axid angel]

i totally don't want to watch the next episode, but i must find out what casey does to that girl who is sleeping with her boyfriend.

[KyleMcGuire1983]

Originally Posted by Axid angel

i totally don't want to watch the next episode, but i must find out what casey does to that girl who is sleeping with her boyfriend.

She'll make her pillows and stuff because she'll wind up as her big. Zeta Beta Zeta: the best representation of a sorority ever....almost as good as Kappas and Omegas are for us guys.

[CarolinaCutie]

Of course I'm being invited to multiple Facebook groups encouraging Greeks to boycott this show. I COULD tell them how I think it's funny and how they should get a sense of humor, but I think I'll just keep my mouth shut and keep watching.

[sunnydebs]

I caught the show tonight on regular ABC. It looks like they'll be playing it on Mondays on ABC family and the following Fridays on ABC. So for anyone without cable, you can watch too, just a bit later.

[LaneSig]

Originally Posted by BGbeauty

It basically takes the media's ideas of Greek life and throws in a little bit of truth. It also portrays fraternity life in a more positive way than how they show sororities: portraying the usual "bitchy, stuck up, stupid" sorority life that we've come to expect from the media.

Portrayed fraternities in a more positive way?? It showed us as a bunch of drunk, partying, idiots who cheat on our girlfriends, are closet cases, haze, and insensitive louts.

The members of my chapter would never.....wait, Ricky did cheat on his girlfriend with her sorority sister.

Well, the Tekes on my campus would never.....wait, there were those rumors about Jon and Glenn.

Okay, the Sig Eps at ASU would never....oh, I almost forgot, they lost their charter for hazing and then (alledgedly) burned down their house so no one else could have it.

The Pikes would never.....yeah, they were known as the Country Club boys.


Never mind.

[SWTXBelle]

ROFL

[Soliloquy]

http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...ad.php?t=88630


And it has begun.

I know the OP was just trying to find out information, so I'm not purposely flaming him/her... but I just find the reference to be funny. Quite funny actually

[Axid angel]

you know what would be really scary? if some of the writers wanted to do research about greek life and were lurking around this site right now.