WWE Legend's House begins filming next month in California, features 'Mean' Gene Okerlund

The WWE Legend's House show, one of the very first original ideas (which isn't all that original) for the WWE Network, is all set to begin filming next month in Rancho Mirage, California.

This according to MyDesert.com:

In February, eight former World Wrestling Entertainment stars will be under one roof in a show similar to MTV's "Surreal Life" titled "WWE Legends House."

The show will be shot in Rancho Mirage at the historic home of late comedian Harpo Marx at Tamarisk Country Club.

WWE Hall of Famer Eugene "Mean Gene" Okerlund, familiar to fans as a wrestling interviewer and announcer, has been confirmed for the show.

Other rumored cast members include Dusty Rhodes, Roddy Piper and The Iron Sheik.

If they get Iron Sheik for this show and actually manage to stick him in a house with just the other three guys they have, it's worth the time to watch it. In fact, we would probably cover the show live each time it aired. That man is about six times more insane than Ultimate Warrior.

That said, this show is a terrible idea. They're going to bill it as an unscripted drama, which is a delightful bit of irony considering it's a house full of old school professional wrestlers who lived and did their thing when kayfabe still meant something. What's worse, they essentially stole the idea for the show from the UFC with its Ultimate Fighter (TUF) series, which needed to be put out of its misery about six seasons ago (they're up to 15 now). And WWE doesn't even have a premise like UFC does. On TUF, they fight to eliminate each other until one (or two) stand tall at the end.

What's going to happen in the Legend's House? They sit and tell old ring stories?

I'm skeptical this can be anything but a disaster but again, if Iron Sheik is around, I'll legitimately watch to see what kind of shenanigans he gets himself into.

Any of you Cagesiders actually looking forward to the show? And who should the other four participants be?