Someone at CBS didn't follow the Michael Jackson trial.

There are scores of Hollywood moms and dads just itching for a chance to file suit against someone with deep pockets.

Watch this idea implode in a wave of lawsuits when the vast majority of Kid Nation participants return home with little more than grease burns and spatula marks to commemorate their role in New Mexico's Great Made-For-TV Social Experiment.

But I guess that, as with so many other "reality TV" ideas, it could only have worked once anyway.