First 'Hillbillies,' now 'Acres' to get real

HOLLYWOOD, California (Reuters) -- Days after news broke that CBS was planning a reality-series revival of "The Beverly Hillbillies," Fox Broadcasting said it is developing a nonfiction comedy that mirrors another rural comedy: "Green Acres," Variety reports.

While details are still being hammered out, the show will take a rich, upper-class family or individual -- possibly a celebrity -- and move them from a big city to a much more spartan existence, most likely in the South. Cameras will observe as the former socialites, deprived of access to their bank accounts and Beemers, attempt to get a job, buy groceries and fit in with average Americans.

Like my friend Brian said, "I think the apocalypse countdown clock just moved a tick..."