There are four great genres of the mundane reality show: cooking, houses, dating, clothes. Daytime TV should flood the market with hybrids.

- Show in which two strangers are matched up and cook a meal together.
- Show in which married couple flips a house and cooks a dish that reminds them of each phase of the construction process (“Today we’re painting the bedroom French Castle Gray, so we’ll make Castle Pudding!”).
- Show in which two strangers are matched up and help each other buy a new wardrobe.
- Show in which construction workers are chosen from house renovation TV shows and then given hot new looks for work.
- Show in which two slovenly dressed strangers don’t meet, but stay at home and cook food that reflects their soul-crushing depression. The recipes will be similar to those on “Semi-Homemade with Sandra Lee.”
- Show in which TV cooks flip each other’s houses.
- Show in which a dating couple trades houses and looks through each other’s closets to find ugly, outdated clothes and also embarrassing secrets like wooden autobiographical poetry and intricate sex toys.

Also, I miss “Blind Date.”