Everyone seems to want to be on TV but what about running things behind the camera? That's the basic premise behind M.U.D. (Mad Dirty Ugly) TV, a new sim game from publisher Kalypso Media. The game, from developer Realmforge, is due to be released in the US in March 2010.

The game, which employs a cartoon-like art style, gives you the power to run your own TV studio. That also means hiring staff, actors, and directors to make TV shows that get high ratings for your advertisers. Which sounds great, right? Except that the game also has rival TV stations who will resort to mad, dirty and ugly tricks to sabotage your operations.

So what TV shows would you make? Personally, we want to see "Little People as Lawmen with 10 Kid Chefs in the Jungle." Ratings gold.

[Via email press release]