2m2m Poker TV Reality Show Cancelled
The poker themed TV reality series “2 Months, $2 Million” will not be returning for a second season, as G4 television has axed the show from its lineup due mainly to poor ratings—which in turn were due mainly to a failure of the program’s stars to fulfill the promise of the show.
2 Months, $2 Million was a novel idea, and maybe even a bold experiment in high stakes theater, but it was doomed from the start. The premise was that viewers would follow Jay Rosenkrantz (aka “Krantz”), moderately famous and rising(?) young poker pro, and his buddies, co-young rising poker stars Brian Roberts, Dani Stern, and Emil Patel, as they attempted to win $2 million (that’s in profit) in a 2 month period of time. Just based on that alone you can see, there was so much that could go wrong with this ambitious plan and so little that could go right.
Were the young stars playing for bucks or playing to the cameras, ‘cause you can’t do both. (At least you can’t and win.) And G4’s demographic of 18-34 year old males don’t want to watch losers, they want to watch people win. Where 2 Months, $2 Million failed is literally in the approximately $1.3 million dollars short the boys/men fell in achieving their $2 million goal. Take out your handy calculator and you’ll see that totals a 65% disappointment.
Again, it was a novel and noble idea. But so is the PokerStars Million Dollar Challenge, starring Kid Poker himself, Daniel Negreanu—and that’s doing a heck of a lot better.
