Yeah. It looks extremely staged. It always has but this past season, the show's second, was very obvious about it. I've broached the subject on Seymour's message board at teamtushy.com (warning: pop-ups) I managed to coax a response out of Seymour. According to him, the show is real. Sometimes, they will re-do stuff that they camera may have missed and so they have to act. He said that is why in the credits you have "comedy stylings of" attributed to two guys. That's apparently where they come in.

I personally don't buy it. But I talk to a certain porn star through e-mail quite a bit and she was on the show in the first season. Her appearance was presented as this rather random chance event, running into Cousin Stevie and giving him a lapdance. It works in the episode as pure comic relief as well as nice eye candy, as the girl does take her top off. Ultimately, it looks completely staged but when I asked her she claimed that it wasn't...completely staged that is.

But that was the first season and some of those things may have actually been real. This second season was a joke though. I also agree that the Mari-Seymour connection seemed far too much like a happy coincidence in a soap opera kind of way.

Kelly

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Let's face it, if they were to do a REAL show about how a porn company were run, it would be rather boring...just like any other business operation.

But here's a shock for everyone...almost EVERY reality show on TV is manipulated in some way. From the "exits" of departing contestants on THE APPRENTICE being filmed before anyone got kicked off the show, to some contest footage on SURVIVOR being reshot (sometimes with body doubles!) because the camera missed some action.

Edited by - TheLoneGunman on 5/17/2004 11:21:38 AM

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I can see how it would work on non-fans of porn; they don't Taylor or anyone else from a hole in the wall. They have no idea that people like Jesse Jane and Brittney Skye wouldn't touch Seymour with a ten-foot pole unless it was for money. But we know better. And thus, it's "manufactured"-ness comes shining through and hits us on the head like a 2x4 anytime we watch the show.

Just for kicks watch the first season when Seymour takes Jesse Jane out clubbing. Who's that busty opportunist in the background making every effort to be seen and captured on camera by dancing with Cousin Stevie? Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose , later she ran for Governor of California.

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I watched the first few episodes of Family Business. Didn't seem very realistic but I chalked it up to the thought that the porn business wouldn't seem realistic to somebody outside it.

I watched last week's episode. Myrna got a breast augmentation. Didn't capture my interest.

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First off, I don't disagree with you in general. "Family Business" is cleary staged.

Let me just say this: the Taylor St. Claire thing was not as staged as you think.

Kelly

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at the end of the day its all good
and supposedly he lives up the street from me

so if you see a huge hot dog that looks like asian guy
on season 3
its probably me
:)

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