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Bad idea theater: In Fox's next reality offering, real people will apparently lose their real jobs.

There's word today that Fox has picked up Someone's Gotta Go, a reality show in which real employees at a real business choose a real co-worker to lay off, who will really lose his or her real job and be really, truly out of work.

...You've got to be kidding me.

Whether Fox reality chief Mike Darnell — who, yes, is behind American Idol, but who was also the king of the garbage-reality wave that is now entirely out of style for the networks, which brought you Joe Millionaire and My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiancé