While watching the debut of VH1’s newest reality series, “Breaking Bonaduce,” it dawned on us that the networks have gotten really lazy with naming their reality programs, and specifically their celebrity reality programs. Perhaps “Breaking Bonaduce” is an appropriate name for a show that follows Danny Bonaduce and his wife through marriage counseling and rehab, but it certainly isn’t very creative. Couldn’t VH1 have come up with somthing just a tad more interesting? Sure, “Breaking Bonaduce” is fun to say, but sheesh… Bands still create interesting titles for their records, why not TV networks?

Kudus however to the folks who named some of the upcoming non-reality faire this season. We’ll see new shows like “My Name Is Earl,” “How I Met Your Mother” and “Everybody Hates Chris” – all of which are much more creatively-titled than “The Ashlee Simpson Show,” “Growing Up Gotti” or “Hidden Howie.” There must have been a focus group that determined that unless the star(s) of a show’s name was actually mentioned in the title, viewers simply wouldn’t watch it. Or maybe the networks think we’re too dumb to actually dig deeper than a title to figure out whether we want to watch it or not. Yeah, like most reality shows are actually about something anyway. Check out this list of recent reality shows that contain the name(s) of said show’s star(s) in their title:

Andy Milonakis Show
Anna Nicole Smith Show
Apprentice: Martha Stewart
Ashlee Simpson Show
Being Bobby Brown
Britney and Kevin: Chaotic
Breaking Bonaduce
Chasing Farrah
Dog the Bounty Hunter
Gastineau Girls
Gene Simmons’ Rock School
Growing Up Gotti
Hidden Howie
Hogan Knows Best
I Want To Be a Hilton
Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List
Knievel’s Wild Ride
Meet the Barkers
Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica
The Osbournes
Parco, P.I.
Rock Star: INXS
R U The Girl with T-Boz and Chilli
Tommy Lee Goes to College