Besides being so preposterous as to make "Joe Millionaire" seem positively sincere and grounded by comparison, Fox's "Unanimous" confirms that producers are getting worse at masking just how little reality actually goes into their reality shows. With credits that list a story producer, two story editors, a casting producer and four casting directors, this irredeemably lame effort comes across as more scripted than most primetime comedies. Billed as "a dynamic hybrid of unscripted drama and competition" (whatever that means), "Unanimous" takes nine contestants with clear intellectual shortcomings and cloisters them in a sterile subterranean bunker without clocks or outside light to see how long it will take them to crack.

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