I had a weird idea...
Take 50 political talk radio talk show hosts from around the country, including some of the national ones. Make it half and half, conservative and liberal. Ask each one of them for one legislative idea that they'd like to see passed by Congress.
And welcome to the newest reality program: "The Senate".
Each talk show host is a Senator, and must try to convince a majority of the remaining members of Congress to pass their idea. Each Senator puts their one idea in the hopper as a bill, and then they begin to try to work each other to pass their ideas. They're all locked in some huge estate until a bill is passed. The bill passed will win some ungodly amount of money for the author(s) of the idea. However, no bill can pass that encompasses more than 3 ideas.
And then videotape all the intrigue and dealmaking.
I'm not sure it would make for interesting television. But I think it would be illuminating to the skills and intellectual capabilities of talk radio hosts when having them compete against each other.
And hopefully it would highlight that it is so much easier to take public potshots from a sound booth than it is to actually negotiate change.