WHEN WILL THIS REALITY TV SH!T STOP??!!!?!?
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As above really. The thread about the current number one is just one thing in a long line of seemingly never ending mindless dross. Its one big vicious circle, all the singing and Big brother type sh1te generate pond life "celebs" which then appear on other cr*p like the dancing, ice skating. For gods sake how can anyone with enough brain power to walk sit and watch any of it?!?
It will go on for as long as people watch it. People watch this utter crap for different reasons. Some people want to see what the Chavs’ next door are up to, some want to watch it and be able to say “Well at least my life isn’t as f
ed up as that poor brds” And some people are so obsessed celebrities that they watch nothing else. I agree with you totally, it’s all crap.
ed up as that poor brds” And some people are so obsessed celebrities that they watch nothing else. I agree with you totally, it’s all crap.
Blame this chap Peter Bazalgette of Bazel (now Endemol) Productions.
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I agree, I despise this sort of TV.
Especially when more people probably vote for someone to win some ice-skating contest than actually vote for this government.
But its not going to stop, Almost every adult I know watches it. None of my friends do (mid 20ish) but it seems most popular amongst either kids or 35+.
Must cost people a fortune though on phone bills / text messages as almost every show requires you to vote. More money for them I suppose.
The same people who watch these shows are the people who buy the affilated celeb mags like Hello and Now etc that have taglines like "Find out what celebs weigh" and the Sun. Incidently I was speaking to someone who reguarly reads the sun, every day, yet they had no idea of a) who Tessa Jowell was b) why she should be in the papers as of late. yet bet they could tell you who was photographed falling out a bar with a blonde on his arm at 2am on Friday 3rd March etc.
Pathetic.
I do think people are becoming maybe not dumber, but definately lazier. If there is nothing decent on TV then i can find something to do, wether its go out and take some photos / read a book / Pistonheads / Work on my website / Go a drive etc etc. People will just watch the crap. I've heard so many people say they are watching it because there is nothing else on. I feel like sreaming at them "YOU DONT HAVE TO WATCH TELEVISION!!!!"
But even nowadays the supposedly decent shows are crap, parkinson interviewed Blair last night and managed to ask him nothing that mattered at all, his first questions were about Blair and his non-existant musical background. It stank of someone who was asking what Blairs PR guy asked him to ask, to make Blair look a mans man.
When will it end, I doubt it will.
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Stuart
Especially when more people probably vote for someone to win some ice-skating contest than actually vote for this government.
But its not going to stop, Almost every adult I know watches it. None of my friends do (mid 20ish) but it seems most popular amongst either kids or 35+.
Must cost people a fortune though on phone bills / text messages as almost every show requires you to vote. More money for them I suppose.
The same people who watch these shows are the people who buy the affilated celeb mags like Hello and Now etc that have taglines like "Find out what celebs weigh" and the Sun. Incidently I was speaking to someone who reguarly reads the sun, every day, yet they had no idea of a) who Tessa Jowell was b) why she should be in the papers as of late. yet bet they could tell you who was photographed falling out a bar with a blonde on his arm at 2am on Friday 3rd March etc.
Pathetic.
I do think people are becoming maybe not dumber, but definately lazier. If there is nothing decent on TV then i can find something to do, wether its go out and take some photos / read a book / Pistonheads / Work on my website / Go a drive etc etc. People will just watch the crap. I've heard so many people say they are watching it because there is nothing else on. I feel like sreaming at them "YOU DONT HAVE TO WATCH TELEVISION!!!!"
But even nowadays the supposedly decent shows are crap, parkinson interviewed Blair last night and managed to ask him nothing that mattered at all, his first questions were about Blair and his non-existant musical background. It stank of someone who was asking what Blairs PR guy asked him to ask, to make Blair look a mans man.
When will it end, I doubt it will.
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Stuart
Do as I do and listen to the radio - it is the last bastion of quality programming. There are about 10 TV shows I watch each week, the rest of the time I'm on PH, SafeSpeed, MGOC and ABD, listening to BBC Essex, Radio 3, 4 and 6. Most TV is aimed at Chav chimps, with recaps after each commercial break. Combine that with the Scots turd-sniffing dwarf and you have the sum total of weekly TV in this country.
Vote with your ears!!
Vote with your ears!!
But what decent radio channels is there, during the day I like to listen to BBC R5 Live but in the evening they do a sports show which is pretty pants.
but the rest BBC R1 etc and all my local radio channels play all the teenie-bopper crap i'm not interested in (as im not 11 years old)
I find I like to just sit and listen to some good music, or stick on a DVD. Which reminds me I haven't watched a few car / racing dvds i got at christmas yet.
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Stuart
but the rest BBC R1 etc and all my local radio channels play all the teenie-bopper crap i'm not interested in (as im not 11 years old)
I find I like to just sit and listen to some good music, or stick on a DVD. Which reminds me I haven't watched a few car / racing dvds i got at christmas yet.
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Stuart
There's one reality show I would love to watch - Celebrity Suicide. Each week The host Anne Diamond presides over a panel of committed and clinically insane nobodies who have each unsuccessfully taken their own lives. They vote on how well each celebrity pair plan and commit suicide. Those that get it right are eliminated. The pair that make a complete gash of it......get eliminated! Ooh the 'B' list that could be on that!!
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There are masses, I mean absolutely shedloads of really good programme ideas landing at the desks of commissioning editors every single week.
Trouble is, none of the stations have the balls to actually commission any of them. They say they don't want any more gardening programmes, but in reality they just churn them out because its a guaranteed winner.
los angeles said:
It's all seriously cheap television. There are examples of reality shows costing as little as twenty thousand pounds an hour; a lot of house decorating shows come in that category: that's participants, crew, video stock and editing, producer and director's fees. Drama cannot hope to compete. The television companies look at the cost of a reality show, the viewing figures and measure it against the vast advertiser profits and rub their hands with glee.
Answer: stop watch reality shows, viewing figures will drop, advertisers will desert that genre, and the television companies will look at other forms of entertainment.
Tell me about it. I worked on a holiday type programme a few years back, did a seriously good job for them, worked my arse off, and at a slightly discounted rate.
The following year, they got a crew in that undercut everyone by 50%. Thats every single crew member from the first, very successful series, who produced a technically perfect show, GONE.
It's far easier for sad bastards to sit at home watching garbage 'reality tv' than it is to go out and get their own lives.
They live their lives through these fictional 'soap' characters, it gives them something to discuss at work and down the pub, because outside of what they see on tv most people have got NOTHING in their lives to talk about.
I watch tv to see Discovery channel mainly, motoring or engineering stuff, but that is about the lot. I have a life, it is in my garage, I built it myself, I work on it every chance I get, I instilled life into, it's my baby
They live their lives through these fictional 'soap' characters, it gives them something to discuss at work and down the pub, because outside of what they see on tv most people have got NOTHING in their lives to talk about.
I watch tv to see Discovery channel mainly, motoring or engineering stuff, but that is about the lot. I have a life, it is in my garage, I built it myself, I work on it every chance I get, I instilled life into, it's my baby
I tend not to even bother watching TV at all now, in fact I am considering getting rid all together. I tend to spend my spare time in the garage or browsing the web for information, I have learnt so much from the internet (no porn jokes please
) and gain nothing from TV unless I want to take up ice skating or watch some mindless tw@t on the Jeremy Kyle show with his 8 kids and a heroin addiction 
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