GREEN ACRES 2020
TV Land, 8:00 p.m. ET
SPECIAL: Eleven years ago, Donald Trump appeared on the 2006 Grammy Awards, making a surprise appearance during a medley in which various celebrities took turns singing familiar TV theme songs. Trump, as himself (at the time, a New York real estate tycoon) and Megan Mullally, in character as the brazenly wealthy and comically clueless Karen from Will & Grace, sang the theme to Green Acres. That was the 1965-71 sitcom that started out as Beverly Hillbillies in reverse, with rich folks going to the country, but soon became flagrantly surreal, with Eddie Albert and heavily accented Eva Gabor, as Oliver and Lisa Douglas, urban millionaires turned rural farmers, dealing with goofy neighbors, silly problems, and a scene-stealing pig. Well, just before deciding to run for President, Trump made this TV Land pilot for a modern remake, in which he and his wife Melania Trump starred as Oliver and Lisa. This unsold, formerly unseen pilot is a real treasure. But why stop there? If it were revived as a series in a few years, Green Acres 2020 couldn’t miss – let's face it, Donald and Melania Trump in Green Acres would be HUUUGE. (And President Trump already knows the words to the theme song.) Let’s just hope, by the fall TV season that year, he’ll be free to entertain other business interests.