'Chasing Farrah' not good enough to catch

Her life of chaos turns out to be less than charming.
HIS SHOW IS A TRUE BLOND MOMENT (or 30 since it's a half-hour show).
TV Land, the cable network that usually offers the best of our TV past, has begun to test the waters for original, first-run programming. So far TV Land has taken some old shows and reimagined or reworked them ("Alf's Hit Talk Show" and last year's "The Dick Van Dyke Show, Revisited"), but now is entering into reality TV.
The premise of the new show, "Chasing Farrah," is just that, following the '70s sex symbol, Farrah Fawcett, as she goes about her daily life. The secondary players in the include Farrah's entourage of managers, publicists and the film crew.
Why Farrah? Larry Jones, president of TV Land & amp; Nickelodeon, said he chose her for this series because she was "the Holy Grail" of tv-dom. "So many of our perceptions of Farrah Fawcett are through tabloids, quick sound bites on the news and her roles in film and television," Jones noted.
Can't look away
In the rough cut that was previewed, it isn't clear that someone would want to chase her, but she is hard to turn away from, much like a bad car wreck.
In the first episode, Farrah places a caller on speaker phone, yet truly doesn't quite grasp the concept, as she holds the handpiece about a foot from her head while she was talking. She also claims in the same episode she's not sure why she's doing a reality show, seeing that she really doesn't like them, but it was quite obvious to most anyone that it was for the money (probably to pay for all the drinking she does on the show).
In watching the first two shows, it's easy to feel a little sorry for Farrah, as she seems to be in a dense fog. As the tape rolled on, it became clearer and clearer that she's a modern-day Baby Jane Hudson in the 1962 horror classic, "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?" She acts as if she is a teen-ager instead of 58.
In 1997, in what has become probably the most talked about appearance on "The Late Show with David Letterman," Farrah seemed to have trouble concentrating on the interview, and even at one point thought she was looking out a window, when she was actually seeing the fake skyline behind Letterman. Now anytime she feels someone is misconstruing what she is trying to say or making her look stupid as a "Letterman Moment."
Airheads
However, she is not the only one who comes out looking stupid, as her tennis instructor seems to be an even bigger airhead than she is. Farrah attempts to clarify a story that she had once told him, when she couldn't remember the word "embankment," which she blurts out as if he should know what she is talking about.
Somehow the instructor twists the story to be that David Letterman rescued Farrah from the paparazzi by climbing over an embankment. Farrah seems to get frustrated when people don't "get" her. She must be frustrated a lot.
Probably the best moment of the first episode was when Farrah told her friend Alana Stewart that she could fly a 747. According to Farrah, in a mere 45 minutes, a pilot of the jet she was flying on taught her everything there is to know about flying and landing planes. In the air in front of her, she showed Stewart how simple it was to land the plane, just by pushing three buttons. Farrah then became concerned that terrorists might be watching and figure out how to land the jets.
Who in his right mind thinks terrorists are concerned about landing planes, with or without Farrah's assistance?
Another approach
As far making another show with Farrah, here's an idea that would be a hit.
Get Farrah, Anna Nicole Smith and maybe Cher (seeing that she thought Mount Rushmore was a natural phenomenon) on a Jeopardy-like quiz show against a team of elementary school kids. Now that would be fun to watch.