Let's stay in the creatively teeming world of networked American television, as we check on the progress of Coming Out With Cher and Chas.
When Lost in Showbiz first heard of the rumoured programme - in which Cher and her daughter Chastity help some closeted civilian declare they're gay on national TV - it initially assumed it to be some kind of nihilist joke.
You know, what with Cher having committed the teenage Chastity to intensive therapy when she came out, in an enchanting bid to "cure" her (perhaps feeling herself beneath the task, having failed to effect a similar healing of her erstwhile fiance David Geffen).
But Lord knows US TV is all about the journey these days, and so it is that the show turns out to be a genuine proposal. Cher says it will be "as big as the Osbournes", while her spokesperson adds that "they'd like a bidding war between the stations".
So? Lost in Showbiz would like to erase the mental scars of the If I Could Turn Back Time video, the 1989 shore-leave-wrecking classic, in which Cher, in her mid 40s at the time, rides a giant naval ship's cannon, in a thong, with the entire cavalcade of frott watched over by hundreds of baying sailors.
But life is pain.
Still, as long as the latter message forms the backbone of the televised counselling meted out to some confused red state teen, let the show commence.
