In the best news to hit Canadian entertainment all year, the shameful Toronto-based Jersey Shore rip-off Lake Shore has been scrapped, after producers failed to convince any network to air the racial stereotype-boasting "reality" series.
Lake Shore was to depict what happens when eight strangers of different backgrounds shack up together and get up to bullshit shenanigans to rival the Jersey Shore "guidos." The series made headlines last year, after a trailer hit the internet with cast members refered to by their ethnicities ("The Italian," "The Lebanese," etc.), and an anti-semitic comment from one character.
According to the Star, show producer Maryam Rahimi emailed the cast earlier this month saying the project is officially dead, after failing to draw interest from networks.
“I am sorry to say this, but it's over,” Rahimi wrote. "“We became victims of circumstances. It was no one’ fault, this is just the way business is."
Thank god. Because I don't want to live in a world where shit like this makes the air, and quality Canadian content like So You Think You Can Dance Canada is canceled.
Cast member Salem Moussallam, who auditioned to generate business for his Queen St. W consignment shop, sums up the production in but four words.
"It’s been really embarrassing,” he tells The Star.