WTF-TV: "The Two Coreys"

So I was on with Chip Franklin, as I am every Monday morning on San Diego's news-talk blowtorch:

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And he asked me afterwards if I had ever seen "Corey vs. Corey," and I said I hadn't seen it at all. Later, I realized Chip was referring to "The Two Coreys," the latest show on A&E where the art of the bleep button is practiced 10 times a minute.

The two Coreys, as you might know, were in "The Lost Boys," which came out in the 1980s, years after it could have possibly been of interest to me. Now, like everyone else in Hollywood, they're trying to use the low expectations of reality television to kick-start their careers.

I watched an episode online, and so far as I can tell, the shtick in "The Two Coreys" is that they hate each other, but they need each other — and if you think about it, they can just keep milking that vicious cycle for episode after episode, at least for a couple or three seasons on cable.

"The Two Coreys" — maybe Chip was thinking about the jackass video game on A&E's website — is one of those shows that I'm going to start calling WTF-TV (how did I ever function before Philip Seymour Hoffman taught me the ultimate rejoinder?). I know somebody's watching shows like "The Two Coreys." But even allowing for irony and cringe value, I don't get how this show draws a crowd for the onetime home of Bill Kurtis and "Breakfast with the Arts."

So enlighten me.