Reality TV is cheap TV. That's why there is so much of it. Big Brother (first series) was an interesting experiment at first. It was vaguely interesting watching people go slightly mad over time. Almost like watching gorillas pacing their cages and banging their heads in a zoo. After that it just got silly with TV producers just putting in people that were more and more bonkers and that they thought would provide "entertainment". And the media made them celebrities that could earn decent money from it without any effort. And people today want everything for nothing so how better to get it than to be a talentless "celebrity" just arsing around on TV, if you can get the gig.
The rubbish that is on the tele is unbelievable !!! Anyone watched White collar I'm enjoying criminal minds I have got Dinner date, Come dine with me and Peter Andre sprinkled in there ;-) for light entertainment
I love Game of Thrones. I cant wait for Series 4. GoT is brill although the ending of S3 left me a bit shocked. Duck Dynasty is absolutely hilarious.
Oh yes its just so funny. I know its a little contrived but all the same laugh out loud and harmless.
two nights ago I think I saw it all,... monging on the sofa, watching a programme, reality tv... of people monging on a sofa watching tv! What a beautiful cross section of society.
As Paul Weller said many years ago "The Public Wants What The Public Gets " so if en masse the public buy the cheapest beef burgers in Tesco, to use a recent example , is it such a surprise there is not a whole lotta beef there ? Likewise if the great british public really do enjoy and watch in large numbers, Strictly, X factor, Jeremy Kyle etc then can we blame the tv companies for supplying it ? Vote with your feet, buy proper beef burgers and turn the tv off or over. Every little helps as Tesco like to tell us.
The title seems to assume that TV was once great, there was no golden era, each decade (including this one) produced some superb television (The Sweeney, Morse, and more recently Spooks, Wallander, Borgen, The Bridge etc, etc) but 75% of it was and is complete drivel, but remember, it's not compulsory to watch it!
A very good point, and one which I too am troubled by. And it just seems to get more and more extreme as time passes. But I long ago gave up living in the so-called "real" world, and chose instead to live in one of my own making. It isn't a total cure as the outside world always creeps in to some extent, but it does help. I haven't bought a newspaper (other than MCN) since the 70s.
im proud to say that i havent heard of hardly any of these 'quality' american tv shows....normally when i see them they make my blood boil or bore me to tears..usually with the camp melodramatic acting, or the fashion for shakey camera work and pointless zoom, zoom, zooming in, zoom out again, cut to wide shot, then half of screen missing, out of focus cut back to the scene...soooo distracting. Im remember seeing a tralier of 24 (drivel), in which Sutherland is crying behind the wheel..instead of just letting the man act, and have a potentially moving scene (which my ex assured me was about 300 episodes of build up) they had to zoom in, out, shake the camera, cut to slo-mo..utterly pointless, meaningless, distracting nonsense... Any movie by that tool Tony Scott instantly gets ignored by me...i lasted about 2 minutes into a film called 'man on fire'..pretentious shit from the outset with chaotic cuts and editing..no thanks... A mate kept going on about Californication..i relented and watched a bit of it online...again, more pretentious, childish bollox...then crap like 'big bang theory'..is this for children...? i cant tell... The only funny comedy i can ever remember watching from the US is Larry David, but he's virtually unknown over here...Ricky Gervais (who i enjoy) has copied everything from Larry...the beauty is, its entirely free and you dont have to fund a paedophile protection racket to watch it.
How I met your mother Big bang theory Falling skies Battlestar Galactica miniseries (new one) and good all classic family guy, south park, simpsons ....
What, Leicester?!!! :tongue: Tvs all have an off button, get out a good book instead and read something of quality.
Father Ted?? ffs.....what shite...I think theyve got some Last of the Summer Wine DVDs down at the car boot i can pick up for you....i think its the series where that one actor whose still alive was in it....k'sake...it'll be mrs.browns boys next...
