As an aspiring filmmaker who has yet to put even one minute of footage in the can (can you count how many film terms I just used even though I would never use film?), you can imagine that I'd be pretty interested in watching Fox's On the Lot. I've been recording it on the DVR but just started watching tonight. I'm hooked. It's kinda odd though that a show about filmmaking isn't aired in HD.
Granted, some of the situations are a bit on the contrived side, but everything I've seen so far was also designed to pressure people out to narrow down the field quickly. What worries me in the long run is that the public gets to vote Idol-style going forward, and frankly I think the American public has really bad taste in movies.
The thing that jumps out at me though with this short-form stuff is that I think it's almost harder to crank out something clever and entertaining that lasts two minutes than something longer. And yet, that's really the kind of thing I need to crank out to just get something, anything, finished and into the world, even if it sucks.