Fred “Slick” Trainor, President of the network, was sitting calmly at his desk listening to a producer describe his concept of a new reality show. Trainor was calm due to the fact that his secretary had given him a mood altering drug. He had lost 17% of his brain cells as a result., mostly the important ones. No one noticed any change in him.

“So, we put the contestants on this island. Here’s where we go that extra step, push the envelope, make tv history-”

“I’m losing my train of thought. You might want to get to the point, if you have one. I really don’t care”, Trainor interrupted.

“Okay, okay. The thing we’d do is make only one person a survivor. Literally. We arm everyone with a knife and the last one alive wins.”

“Hmm.”

The producer took that as a sign of approval.

“Naturally, we have to divide the contestants equally between men and women. Don’t want the N.O.W. on our backs although the publicity would be great, fabulous, out of this-”

“That would mean a woman would be the winner. A babe would get the guy all distracted and then, at the right moment, stab him in the back”, Trainor commented.

“Yea, okay, I see your point. Women always do that. Here’s the kicker. We don’t tell the women that all the guys are gay. Let them try to distract them”.

“I like it. No, I love it! We get the biggest audience possible with that one. What do we offer the nongays?”

“Well, okay. First off, nongays don’t watch tv much so they are important to the ratings. Later, we get them by advertising the number of dead gays. We get the hottest babes we can find and, man, I’m telling you, this is a surefire winner.”

“What about the law? This is a show about murder. We gonna have trouble with the law?”

“No. Okay, maybe a little. Okay, we shoot the show in one of those small South American countries, call the contestants right-wing or left-wing rebels and we’ll be okay. Okay?”

“Looks good to me. I’ll have to run it past the network censor.”

“There going to be any problem there?”, the producer asked.

“Nah, she’s been dead for years. She okays everything.”