But, did every single person say, “I’m pretty and I have brains” or, “I know I’m good looking but I have brains, too” or something similar during their intro.

Ugh.

My early money is on Chris to win.

Mark: Watched the show (admittedly on accident, I just surfed to it, although I had heard of it before). It’s an interesting concept, and I like the “tests” such as first impressions and living up to expectations. I would think those are far better gauges of potential in business (and in life for that matter) than selling lemonade. However, I was a little disappointed to see a decision fall to something as trivial as a flip of a coin (or in this case, a game of Jenga). I was hoping this would not be yet another ‘reality’ TV show with silly games, stunts or voting to determine the outcome. Though it’s probably a little early to tell yet, so I guess I’ll have to see the next episode

Oh, by the way, I think what you’ve done with the Mavs is great…the turnaround is amazing! If you’re a soccer fan, perhaps you’d like to take on our bottom-dwelling Dallas Burn (soon to be FC Dallas) as your next project

First of all, it’s Mark’s million. Why can’t he make up rules if he wants?

Secondly, why do you need “rules” anyway? It is life — you have laws, but you don’t always have rules governing what you should or shouldn’t do.

Are you the same people who get to work at 8am and leave at 5pm everyday? Are you the same people who cannot stand ambiguity?

The guy who was kicked out right away last night was the same person who wouldn’t get out of his seat to greet people.

Let’s pretend you had $1 to give to someone in that room. Would he be top on your list?

And the Jenga situation…both of those people could have been eliminated, but Mark gave them an opportunity to stay alive. An intense game of Jenga ensued, and if you were watching the show, I know you wanted one of the two people to win. I doubt you were indifferent to the outcome.

Your show, it just sucks. Maybe you can have even more scintillating eliminations based on flipping a coin or picking a number between 1 and 10. This is a network show with a network budget and you couldn’t do anything more interesting than could be done at an old lady tea party (small talk, chats, ‘bored’ games)? Oh wait, you couldn’t even do that – there wasn’t any tea! That’s it, next week offer all the contestants a choice of tea from a box like at a restaurant, maybe make 13 different kinds available, perhaps even herbal or decaf (dare we dream???), and then eliminate the people whose selections you liked the least (I’m betting on oolong!). How thrilling.

Wow. Wow. Really awful. It’s not interesting or possible for the audience to get into figuring out who is the best ‘player’ when there are no rules to the game – just your whims – and no action. How fun would it be, to speak to something in your field, to watch a bunch of people hang about on a basketball court, maybe kick the ball listlessly, ocasionally just sit on it, talk about the weather, maybe try to climb the net, trace the lines on the floor? You have to have rules, expectations, goals, and competition.

Personally, I think you should pick the winner based upon who would be able to, with a million dollars, make a watchable television program – I expected more from you, a veritable kid in a candy store with no constraints but his imagination – apparently, that is one major constraint. Figure out which of your ‘contestants’ is the most imaginative and then give him/her money and the production deal for the Benefactor 2.