Last week, the new fashion design competition and home shopping show, Fashion Star, debuted on NBC. The ratings were okay — not great — but about 4 million people tuned in. Some of those folks attempted to order clothing seen on the show. But that doesn't mean they actually received any garments.

In the first four minutes alone, Fashion Star, which premiered last night on NBC, proved to be an overproduced mess, with cheering, dancing, strobe lights, quick cuts, weird camera angles, throbbing music, pyrotechnics and forced applause. Not to mention shilling Elle McPherson's lingerie, like an infomercial. There…