Anyone ever drive active speakers from speaker out

So I just got a Fujitsu plasma and would like to use the volume control on the remote to control some speakers.

So I would like to run the 10 watt speaker leads out into rca jacks and have them drive some meridian M33 actives or a reveiver and passive speakers?

Am I crazy? Running power into power? any chance that it will work? Any other thoughts? I am really trying to minimize the number of remote controls.

Or any suggestion on great really efficient speaker that will sound OK from the tv speaker outputs