Reality TV: shouldn't it be dead by now?

[petpiranha]

Celebrity Love Island is the worst excuse for soft porn ever. I mean why put up with an hour's worth of rubbish just to see half of Abi Titmuss' nipple? You could see it anyway if you buy a lads mags which she's on every turnabout!

ITV would be better off putting on 5 mins of hardcore fucking at the start of every hour from 9pm onwards (except for say, news at ten) and then put on a quality tv programme/ drama on after it. Is it any wonder the UK is so sexually repressed? And now Big Brother is back. Their attempts for soft porn involve housemates being viewed while showering, washing each other, and even giving them less beds so they have to slept together. WTF? And then it makes the front page of The Sun if one of them has a wank! Society is seriously warped. Why don't we just put them all on an island like Lord of the Flies and see who manages to survive when they all start killing each other.

[Komodo]

Dont care what anyone says...If you watch stuff like this you have something missing in your life. Same with folk who plan out their whole night switching from one soap opera to another. Utter fucking dross. Get a life, read a book go out for a fucking walk.
Its the publics interest in this shite that keeps it going year after year.
To answer your question, aye it should be dead and fuckin buried...rant over

[LesMTS]

The Guardian did a great piece on Celebrity Love Island the other week. What a lot of utter rubbish these shows are.
Although I did read an interesting article arguing that they (reality TV shows) are much more challenging viewing than the shows of 10 or 20 years ago. The guy who wrote it made a decent case for his opinions by pointing out that these shows require viewers to 'follow multiple simultanoeus events/threads and their potential consequences', 'assess complicated social interactions' and 'understand difficult and evolving rule systems' which, he says, is a massive leap forward from the days of 'the generation game' and 'bullseye' (for example) which were very rigid, buffered formats.
Not sure I agree with him but it's definitely something to think about.

[Krocktopus]

Anyone who has to interact with other people at work, home or socially will have to do all of what the Guardian guy says everytime they meet with other people, so he's really just wanking it up to fill newspaper space.

I dont think its public demand which drives these things, i've never been asked what i want to watch by television bosses.
Its much easier for tv bosses to pick something with the lowest common denominator and then market the fuck out of it. There are enough sheep out there to lap it up everytime someone says ''hey you guys, you should be into <insert latest fashion/trend/fad/excuse for shit here>''.
" oh wow thanks man, I'm really interested in that now, what was it again? ... cool. how much is it again?. i'll use my credit card"

They wait to be told, and the good (ie gets results, not has a soul) marketing person of course tells the public how they made that decision to do what they were told to, and what a jolly good decision it was.

If you or I really had a say in what we were sold then all the marketing men in the world would be starving to death and have to eat their own heads.

This happens in music, film, tv, politics, everything - lowest common denominator bullshit for compliant idiots.

TVs usually crap anyway. Its what you do when you dont have anything else to do isn't it?

So why don't you turn off you TV and do somethng more interesting instead.