August 12, 2008
LNS Reality Show to Follow Project Runway on Lifetime
No, you're not having a waking nightmare. It's really happening. So says Patrick Gavin and Jeff Dufour in their Yeas and Nays column in the Examiner.
We can now exclusively confirm that Lifetime has picked up the show and filming begins in September. The half-hour show is slated to air in November and has scored a crucial timeslot: Immediately following Lifetime's popular reality show, "Project Runway" (which will switch from Bravo to the Lifetime network this fall).So, we know we're supposed to be horrified. And trust us, we are. But now that it appears there's really going to be a reality TV show that follows the infamous Late Night Shots crew as they stumble around drunk between the only two Georgetown bars they're willing to go to, we have to admit there's not a chance in the world we're going to be able to keep from watching this thing. Even worse, we're going to have to blog about it, giving the show exactly the sort of free publicity it surely desires. Are we aware we're playing right into their hands? Yes. Are we proud of ourselves? Of course not. Are we already programming our TiVos? You betcha.
The photo above is of future LNS reality TV star Krista Johnson. Click through to the Examiner's story for photos of the rest of the cast, which includes Katherine Kennedy, Sophie Pyle and likely Johnson’s younger sister, Alexa.
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I think the Jezebels will these idiots the hammering they deserve.
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Actually, "hammering" may have been a poor choice of words.
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Hey DCist! You don't have to blog about it. That's the beauty of a blog. Don't play their game. Go cover something that actually means something.
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move over, bens chili bowl. we have a new meaning to the phrase "anal-piss inducing."
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As long as we laugh at them, which why we tune in the first place, we are fine. Plus, we should encourage integrity suicide; it makes filtering the dumb from the tolerable that much easier.
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At least now we can sit in comfort of our homes and watch/mock the douchbagery of these individuals without having to actually come in contact with them at the bar.
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What would it take to get Monkey a "special guest star" shot in this show? And by "special guest star", I'm thinking him in a background shot with his pants around his ankles.
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Hahaha! This is going to be fun.
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I'll only watch if Angela Valdez gets a role in it.
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I am equally disturbed that Project Runway is switching to Lifetime. I feel like somehow that's going to affect the show. Poor Tim Gunn.
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I'd hit it
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Oh DC, when will your image cease to be the cultural punching bag of the world? From riots and crack-smoking-mayors, to below-average homely slutty interns, now we give the world the LNS douchebags which will put all other douchebag sects to shame. I will finally have to get another set of license plates so when I leave town people will not know where I am from.
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i have a bad feeling about this.
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@ no more caffiene:
My thoughts were similar, but then I theorized how awful she'd be in the sack. Seriously, just look at her. My bet is that she'd just lie there.
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I suppose it could make for a good drinking game. Do a shot anytime someone mentions "proper breeding"
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I think they should have a graphic in the upper right hand corner of the screen like they have in baseball that shows balls, strikes and outs but this one would track the DUIS and STDS the cast members accumulate.
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People still go out in Georgetown? Hmm, who knew?
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they could've at least picked cute girls. maybe some who didnt have herpes?
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I hope they show some LNSers USFBing on the SPDF -- though that's probably NSFW.
Or is that confined to the Gryphon Room now? I can't keep up with kids these days.
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2 things:
1) I hope LNSers visit Georgetown Cupcake at least once during the show so those fantastic treats get some "national" attention.
2) I hope they read DCist's coverage of the show while on the show also giving you some "national" attention.
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Being like Paris Hilton is so 2004. I say, take the classy road, change the chanell and embargo the thing.
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The douchebag/georgetown comments are a little out of line here. Sorry nobody wants to make a show out of you hipsters/geeks/ihatemyparents club...
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Wasn't this originally going to be on MTV? Now it's going to be on Lifetime?
By the time this actually gets to air, I suspect it's going to be on Channel 13 after replays of the DC Council's hearings.
I suppose there may be a segment of the country dying to watch the life and times of a couple 23 year old transplanted dumb-as-rocks Southerners living it up in Glover Park on a channel that's considered an anathema to, at the very least, one half of the population. But I doubt it's large.
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What would it take to get Monkey a "special guest star" shot in this show?
The producers have already contacted me about doing the commentary track on the first season DVD, which will consist primarly of me screaming and making flatulence noises with my hand and armpit. Really, you're better off just turning off the video and listening in Dolby 5.1 Surround, shreiking from the rear, farting from the front. You'll be glad you bought that subwoofer.
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Oooh - watch out, swinging purse alert!
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Sorry nobody wants to make a show out of you hipsters/geeks/ihatemyparents club...
It's called "The Real World." You should check it out sometime if you hate your brain.
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The douchebag/georgetown comments are a little out of line here.
Particularly since none of these douchebags or douchebaugettes actually live in Georgetown.
We don't slander Adams Morgan residents for the behavior of the Virginians who treat it like Bourbon Street, why do we slander Georgetown for the behavior of similar non-residents?
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Reid -
Because of georgetown university, perhaps?
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I look down on Georgetown all the time -- not in the sense that I think I'm better but more just because I literally have to look down to see it.
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So... This'll be a(nother) show about how beautiful, rich and powerful women are driven to the depths of debauchery by the existential difficulty of finding a good man?
And somehow setting it in DC makes it not cliche.
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We don't slander Adams Morgan residents for the behavior of the Virginians who treat it like Bourbon Street
No, but we should. Particularly when they move into condos behind all the bars and clubs on 18th Street only to complain about all the noise coming from the bars and clubs on 18th Street.
And that's "third rate Bourbon street." 18th Street's got the vomit and peeing down, but I refuse to stop slandering them until they get some quality live-sex shows and walk-up daiquiri stands. And would it kill them to have a decent muffaletta?
And I think I speak for all of us when I ask, "What does Heidi Montag think of all this?"
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Yeah but will the LNSers go to jumbo slice on a Friday night? Think about it, that could be the episode where "drama" happens...
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"No, but we should. Particularly when they move into condos behind all the bars and clubs on 18th Street only to complain about all the noise coming from the bars and clubs on 18th Street."
Ain't that the truth. A candidate for a DC City Council once told us of his empathy for residents near the Black Cat who were in opposition to the construction of a rooftop deck on the club out of concern for hearing "clinking glasses" in the evening.
"Well, sweety, we finally did it...we moved into the big city! Finally, we'll be free of all of the sidewalk chatter and clinking-glass cacophony of suburbia!"
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Do they hose down the sidewalks on 18th Street each morning like they do for Bourbon Street? That's the true sign of greatness.
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Yeah but will the LNSers go to jumbo slice on a Friday night? Think about it, that could be the episode where "drama" happens...
I'm not sure they could handle the jump from 1986 to 1999.
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I predict lucrative post-LNS careers for these ladies, who I'm certain will have their own signature line of hair dye products, depilatories, tanning salons, herpes treatments, and anal bleaching kits.
LNS: Come for the roofies, stay for the rugburn.®
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Will they air the show on Tuesday night, in honor of said Takedowns?
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Wow...Rusty leaves DC, fires up a blog
rating movies on Lifetime...and the LNS show winds up on Lifetime. That is some cosmic shit right there.
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I predict lucrative post-LNS careers for these ladies, who I'm certain will have their own signature line of hair dye products, depilatories, tanning salons, herpes treatments, and anal bleaching kits.
You left out appearing in John McCain ads.
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Will there be a NC-17 rated Late Night Shots: Poundtown Edition for sale?
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I kinda lump "political endorsements" in with "anal bleaching" on the pain-humiliation scale.
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Look, you should treat blogging about this show like an ansty, long-winded post-breakup email to your ex. It's fine to go ahead and write it. Just DON'T SEND IT.
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Oooh, so I'm not the only person whose "drafts" folder is filled with antsy long-winded rants to my ex that I don't send? And I thought I was all alone. That feels good to know!
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...Lifetime's popular reality show, "Project Runway"...
Whoa there, sonny, let's at least acknowledge the tremendous effort that Bravo is expending to kill off the franchise with the poor advertising and sorry lot of current contestants before it actually washes up on the shores of basic-cable purgatory.
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@ Thomas Circle
"The douchebag/georgetown comments are a little out of line here. Sorry nobody wants to make a show out of you hipsters/geeks/ihatemyparents club...
I hope you know how much mileage that quote will get, you should be so pleased. Thanks, you=priceless.
As for the little LNS people on the show, I wonder do they try to immitate the bad-guy-cliches from 80's movies? They all remind me of the guy the karate kid had to fight, or the mean girl who gets her comeupance from a John Hughes movie? Does that just come natural?
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Cut the lady some slack. Krista looks like a lot of fun. The kinda gal who wouldn't mind you going down there, exhaling forcefully, and watching her jet crazily around the room like a balloon. All she's looking for is the right "cunning linguist and zeppelin enthusiast," and it's goodbye whacky LNS lifestyle, hello wedding in the Hamptons. I'd offer my "dirigible expertise" but Mrs. Monkey would take me to Junkpunchers through the service elevator and leave me there for the night soil man to haul what's left of me to the Thames.
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Wow... I was just imagining the tales Mrs. Monkey could tell. Now THAT is a show I'd watch!
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They could put Connie Dobbs: It's Complicated on pay-per-view. I'd watch the hell out of that show.
As for LNS, please, please tell me there will be a dramatic re-enactment of the CVS/broken condom takedown on the show. With William Shatner doing the voiceover ala "Rescue 911"! Even better? Have DCist commenters do the re-enactments.
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Oh joy....now the whole world will know how true the phrase "DC: Hollywood for Ugly People" really is, fantastic!
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Ah the service elevator at Junk Punchers... I still have the bruises from the time I ordered the Singapore Sling....
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Look, you should treat blogging about this show like an ansty, long-winded post-breakup email to your ex. It's fine to go ahead and write it. Just DON'T SEND IT.
Don't even write it. I can understand a certain amount of morbid fascination with LNS, I may even watch once or twice to see if it's as awful as I think it is, but why on God's green Earth would DCist bother to blog about it? Doesn't writing about those douche-nozzles, even to mock them, give them the validation they crave?