The Celebrity Dating Game

Are you kidding me?

First off, let me start with the positive highlights of this first episode.

OK, there you go, now on to my review. Terrible and not entertaining. I've always been a fan of Zoe, but if this is the real Zoe, I've kinda lost respect for Jonathan Scott. How are you dealing with her. I hope everything on this show is scripted and produced because if this is real, it's really bad.

I rated it a 2 because I don't think I've ever made an IMDB rating a 1.....or less? Then I saw the overall score and it is a 1.7.. I've never seen an overall score that low, but I guess there's always a first...and that 1.7 really fits.

Then there's Michael Bolton. His non verbal demeanor is screaming "why am I doing this show?" It's written all over his face.

And lastly, why try to replicate a great iconic and awesome show from the day.

I won't be watching episode #2.

This is just really cheap produced. First of all the term "celebrity" on these shows is too loose. Granted, yes Tom Hanks wouldn't appear on this, but get some fun B liters. Michael Bolton adds nothing to this show. He looks annoyed almost as if he really does not want to be here. Interesting idea, but poorly executed.

I like Zooey, I thought she was fantastic in New Girl. That is why I decided to check this out, I hope they're paying her seven figures, because for the life of me I cannot figure out why on earth she would ever choose the show. It's cringe worthy, it's embarrassing, it's awkward, and I realize it's supposed to be all those things to a certain extent. But wow was this awful, and by the way what the hell was Michael Bolton even doing on the show, he basically sits there and does almost nothing. It's one of the strangest episodes of television I've ever watched.

Not sure what the execs were thinking casting Michael Bolton for this. He barely moves and when he does it reminds me of the old Disney animatronics robots I saw when I was a kid. I mean this guy looks stiff like a corpse kinda stiff.

Zooey is OK as a host, but she's trying too hard to be nice and a good sport about the whole thing when the world knows she's nothing like that. This could have been fun...but it needs to be recast or it won't make it past 6-8 episodes. Waste of a reboot.

What do you get when you pair an iconic musician with a talented actress/singer, add some nostalgia with a twist? An insufferable waste of time.

"Celeb" Dating Game seems on the surface a fun throwback the likes of which we have come to expect in the era of reboots, but in reality it is even worse than the brain candy that summer tv provides. It's more like brain inedible-object-one-finds-in-between-the-couch-cushions. (Maybe while searching for the remote?) Zooey speaks both overly loud and insincere. Michael looks like he's mourning his career. Every person on stage looks incredibly awkward.

It's not even so-bad-it's-good, it is simply bad.