What it centres on is a roomful of people (who were passed over for shows seeking survivors or blind dates or SAS wannabes) and they are given 48 minutes to come up with an original and imaginative new idea for a reality television series.
They get 48 minutes because the other 12 in this hour-long show would of course be for advertisements ... or promos for the reality show which is set to follow after it.
We, the audience, will be the flies on the wall.
We will take in a great swathe of far-from-great ideas and opinions as the volunteers battle to come up with a concept which will go into the final show to be judged by Simon Cowell, Donald Trump and someone else well-versed with the reality show sector.
Ooh, there's an idea.
The other thing they also have to come up with is who would be most fitting as the third judge.
I'm on a roll now ... I can hear the tyre-fitting machines hissing already.
So yep, the panelists (six different ones every week for the six-week series) effectively sit, think and get filmed doing so.
It's a big old real world out there and lots of things happen, and lots of things can be made to happen.
Some good, some strange and some just plain questionable.
But, as it clearly transpires, all things are not equal in the domain of television reality shows, and while I may be deemed cynical for my tirades against this genre I do have to say that there are "real-life" shows and competitions which can be entertaining and worth wasting (I mean taking up) a small slice of telly-watching time.
I am intrigued by the idea of one new series, and it's one of ours, screening on Thursday nights on TV1.
For it does have the ingredient of creativity and also has the potential to spark someone out there on the other side of the screen to give something a go.
Something which could otherwise be regarded as a waste of time.
It is Design Junkies, and is hosted by a creative and artistic chap by the name of Shane Hansen.
He oversees the creative journeys of six people from across the design landscape who are tasked to make something artistic, or even practical in the furnishing sense, out of items which are effectively labelled as trash.
Things only worth throwing out, except these contestants will throw nothing out ... for at the end of the creative rainbow is rather a fine prize and no tyres are involved.
Except for those on the aircraft the winner gets sent off to Milan in.
My dad once made a great model of the Empire State Building out of matchsticks ... would that do the deal?
However, and there is always a "however" at the other end of the reality script scale, there are shows deigned to push people to their limits for viewers to watch and, in some oddly-angled way, get some enjoyment out of.
Which has given me another potential title for my show idea.
It could be called I Can't See the Point.
And a show sparking into life on Wednesday night of Prime pretty much qualifies in my opinion.
Crikey ... that's another potential title ... In My Opinion.
I'm on a roll ... mmm ... I'm On a Roll.
So anyway, on Wednesday night The Selection airs and it's all about a large bunch of regular people who have to go through increasingly tough mental and physical challenges week after week.
For what reason, I really can't figure.
Nor can I figure a great deal of rationale behind another new series screening on Choice on Thursday night.
It is titled The Secret Helpers and is all about attaching little earpieces to each of the six participants who are all pursuing some ambitious vision in life.
They are connected to what is basically a panel of consultants and advisers from various parts of the world who can pass on "secret" advice to them when they need it.
Hell's bells ... not even I could have made that one up.
But it does illustrate one thing.
There is no bottom to the great barrel from which reality show concepts are drawn from, so my idea could stand up pretty well.
All I need to do now is go and make sure I note down the correct tyre sizes before I start shopping around with the proceeds of my excited production house pay-out.
ON THE BOX
● Lost and Found, TV3 at 8.30 tonight: Yes, it all revolves very much around reality, but it is so much more aligned with emotion and enlightenment and is carried out in a very touching and sincere documentary style.
David Lomas steers this return series about people who finally get to meet, and in some cases, make up with, members of their family they never previously got to know ... before David takes up the search.
There are some genuinely heart-shaking moments, as well as some tense ones.
● Comedy Gala, TV3 at 9.45pm Friday: Humour is a very subjective thing. What amuses one person could very well offend the next.
What draws a smile out of one person will draw a blank look out of the next.
But anyone who has never raised at least a smile upon encountering the mirth of Tommy Cooper needs to be assessed in some way.
This features a string of local comedians who are all set to take the stage at the New Zealand International Comedy Festival, so I guess this is warm-up time for the likes of Rhys Mathewson, Dai Henwood and Heath (Chopper) Franklin ... who's not a local but spends plenty of time here so we'll have him.