Attack of the Cakes, Ghosts and Little People

While much has been made of cable’s recent spate of prestige programming, the networks still patch together their schedules with spit and duct tape. For every original drama series like AMC’s The Walking Dead or FX’s Sons of Anarchy, there remain dozens of lowest common denominator reality shows.

The vast majority of these can be lumped into three basic genres. Representing the ultimate in empty-calorie TV, cable now plays host to no fewer than 12 programs devoted to cake and cake derivatives.

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