With ratings down for Dancing With the Stars, ABC is looking for ways to freshen up the show, and they may have found a way to keep their numbers from slipping. The answer is ice. Celebrity ice skating competition Dancing on Ice recently had its fourth season in Britain, and ABC wants to bring a similar show to America. ...Except it's been here before, in 2006, when Skating with Celebrities was on Fox for one season with Kristy Swanson, Dave Coulier, Debbie Gibson and Nancy Kerrigan. We've got some ideas for other sporting events that might be more exciting to watch than ice-skating. Again.

Some days, it seems like they're running out of ideas for reality shows, since there are multiple fashion, cooking and weight-loss competitions clogging the airwaves. But Survivor and Apprentice creator Mark Burnett just opened up a whole new can of reality show idea-beans with the news that he's developing a reality series based on the 1970s TV show Fantasy Island. This sort of re-jiggering has been tried once before, with the Survivor clone The Real Gilligan's Island, but it certainly seems like old, familiar TV shows are about to become the new hunting grounds for new, familiar and above all cheap reality programming. Here are some classic '60s and '70s TV shows we think would make great '10s reality.

Most of us expect reality TV to be a little outrageous, with either scantily clad girls making drunken fools out of themselves or some vicious cat-fighting during the course of competitions, but some contestants just don't know when to stop, like Survivor's current bad boy Russell, who lied about being a victim of Hurricane Katrina, emptied his tribe's canteens in the dead of night and tried to gain sympathy with a tale about a dead dog. Sometimes it's fun, sometimes it's just morally reprehensible and sometimes we're actually scared for their fellow contestants. We've collected some of the best/worst of these borderline moments (though there were so many, we could have filled the whole list with CT, Bad Girls Club or Big Brother alone) to see which really crossed the line.

They keep hyping this new Oxygen show The Naughty Kitchen as being from the people who made Ace of Cakes, but aside from the fact that they both involve food and plus-size chefs, I don't really see all that many similarities. Duff's a big old softie who likes to goof around with his employees and make sugary confections and play with power tools. Blythe Beck on the other hand is a gravelly voiced executive chef who rules with an iron fist and likes to drink a lot and make raunchy comments. Both have their merits, but there's not a lot of common ground.

I'm undecided. More to Love was a moderately entertaining summer show despite a poorly cast, unappealing bachelor and a handful of crazy girls who just kind of made me sad (Kristian... really, just Kristian, actually), which leads me to a "Sure, why not?" stance on its renewal, for the most part. But on the other hand, it really was the exact same show as The Bachelor, with the sole deviation being that the contestants constantly referred to their size while in their Fantasy Suites and group dates, and that is some egregious format redundancy. But then again it's not like The Bachelor original flavor has any right or reason to exist either, so that argument doesn't really hold up. We can have two of these, or we can have zero of these -- either way the world will remain unchanged, is what I'm saying. See why this is so hard?

So Jordan won. Which was really no surprise to anyone, except maybe Jordan herself. But then again, everything surprised Jordan. You probably could have told her that Julie was a robot and she would have believed it. She won the show purely by dumb luck, which sounds mean, but is true. She claimed that her best strategic move in the game was winning the final HoH, but she won both stages of the competition by chance. She rolled the balls into the right holes better than Natalie, but everyone is a better competitor than Natalie, and then she basically wrote a random number on a chalkboard and won her spot in the final two. I can't even pretend to think that she actually calculated how many votes to evict were cast during the course of the season. She is not a math genius, or any kind of genius.

While we've been hearing for months about all of the very special guest judges who are taking on the audition rounds (from Neil Patrick Harris to Katy Perry and everyone in between), the looming question has been if anyone would take over the fourth seat vacated by Paula Abdul on a permanent basis. Well, we now have an answer: Yes, Ellen DeGeneres. Hiring the popular daytime talk show host and comedian instead of any of the music industy vets we had hoped for could be a stroke of genius -- or it could spell disaster for TV's top-rated program. We've weighed the pros and cons of Idol's newest judge.

Allow me to tell you a little bit about myself. With the exception of attending college in the Midwest, I've lived my entire life in the Northeast. I wear SPF 70. The only people I know who have gotten plastic surgery did so to make their breasts smaller. So to me, the excessively superficial world depicted in Addicted to Beauty is like a magical foreign realm. So naturally, I became completely fascinated by the cast after oh, seven minutes of the first episode, and soon enough I was addicted to Addicted to Beauty.

Just as the fervor over the Sci Fi Channel's name change to Syfy has started to die down, a rumor has come out that they're looking into expanding their reality television slate, which currently consists of Ghost Hunters. (If you can call that reality.) Once again, genre television fans are in an uproar, and Jimmy Kimmel isn't helping things by envisioning cooking show Iron Man Chef. But here are seven shows (in the seven main reality categories) we, as geeks, would actually like to see on Syfy, and we think that the geek community at large would like them, too.

Hey, everybody -- there's going to be a reality version of The L Word! Literally -- Showtime has ordered a series they're calling The Real L Word, a docudrama about six lesbians going about their lives in Los Angeles, which Variety's describing as "the lesbian answer to Bravo's Real Housewives franchise." Why not? Obviously, we need more reality shows. Everyone knows we don't have enough. (Sad disclosure: I'm only half-joking.) In the spirit of embracing the inevitable, here are a few other current scripted shows that I'd actually watch reality versions of.