WikiTV, or Snakes on a Tube?

Usually, a new television show is lucky if it can trot out a few well-written characters and contains some ideas that, at least, seem fresh. But HitRECord is striving to define what a TV show is.

HitRECord is audience-participation TV. Here is a trailer for the show. And here is a Los Angeles Times article about it.

Questions...

•How is this different from most TV shows? What past or current TV shows does it most resemble?

•What is the "We Are Smarter Than Me" Theory, and how does it apply here?

•Do you believe that thousands of people on the Internet can out-create a half-dozed professional television writers? If so, how?

•How will this show build an audience?

•Is this the future of TV?