1000 Ways to Lie
Mike Vicic - March 11, 2009
Update at 4:15pm PT on March 1, 2010: Spike is airing the pilot of 1000 WAYS TO LIE as a one-time, 30-minute special on Wednesday, March 3, 2010 at 10pm ET/PT. The show is titled "Natural Born Liars" and here's a description of the program: A drug smuggler uses her womanly assets to hide the goods; a celebrity seeker pulls a bunny out of her rabbit hole; an ex-con cleans up the streets; a henpecked hubby winds up wishing he was dead; a horny horn player plays his heart out and a con man discovers he’s cut out for the job.
Is '1000 Ways to Lie' yet another book about how to cheat in golf? Or is it a best-selling autobiography by a career politician? Or maybe it's a new reality series from the makers of 1000 Ways to Die?
Be prepared to watch more TV.
Original Productions -- the production company behind Spike's 1000 Ways to Die -- filed documents with the US Patent & Trademark Office on February 24, 2009 to protect the phrase '1000 Ways to Lie' for ''an on-going reality based television program.'' Simple enough. But that's all I could find. No other information online. No new domain registrations for 1000waystolie.com. Nothing in the LA-area filming calendars. Plus, my email to Original Productions for additional information went unanswered. That just means the project is very young and won't see the small screen for a while.
Even though we don't know much about the show, we can still have fun thinking about some of the episodes you might see:
- Way to Lie #499: Playing Poker in the Bluff
- Way to Lie #319: The Delusional Suspects
- Way to Lie #561: White Lies (Don't Don't Do It)
Never heard of Original Productions? You probably know the production company because of its franchise of blue-collar, workplace reality series -- Ice Road Truckers, Deadliest Catch, Ax Men, and Black Gold. Does that mean we can expect a franchise of '1000 Ways to ...' series too? Can you imagine '1000 Ways to Spy'? Or '1000 Ways to Buy'? The options really are endless.