Knock, Knock...Who Cares?

Speaking of series that cannot make it with a well known starts, Ryan Seacrest experienced a spectacular failure only two episodes into his now cancelled Fox program Knock Knock Live.  The premise was Seacrest would go to someone door with a celebrity and give the home owner a surprise.  

Variety summed it up well enough before the show tanked:

Being live, of course, is considered one of the ways to neutralize the effects of delayed DVR viewing, which makes experimenting with the form logical. Yet “Knock Knock Live” plays like a cautionary tale (are you listening, Neil Patrick Harris?), demonstrating that just training a camera on unsuspecting folks, plastering “Live!” across the screen and tossing money at them isn’t enough.

The show was created by Simon Fuller of American Idol fame who must think he can sell anything to Americans.  I really think the mistake was thinking anyone would want to see Justin Bieber in their neighborhood.  I would simply call the cops.