[Two years ago Mark Shapiro , ESPN's executive vice president of programming and production, told Sports Illustrated that Mike Tyson was at the top of his wish list for an athlete reality show subject. That was then, and this is now: They don't make reality shows about missionaries.] It's unfortunate that our viewers would find a reality series on an explosive figure like Mike Tyson uncompelling, ... [But] a life of caring for underprivileged people, as [Tyson] says he's going to do, just isn't as riveting as the ticketing-time-bomb life.
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