Entry: Modern Television Saturday, May 29, 2004



Another rant I think. Today it shall be about reality tv programmes, and has been inspired by the release of Big Brother series 5! Series 5! Ok, the first series was different, it hadn't been seen before and so made a change of regular tv programmes. But did they really have to do it again? Then again? And then 2 more times?!?! It is proably the most pathetic programme I have ever seen; just a group of about 10 people locked in a house for a few months. They're not actors, entertainers, they're just normal people, wanting to have a tiny bit of false fame. Within a few weeks out of the house, I bet no one cares about them at all, and then we start again with a new series. Then they say things like 'I wanted to see if I could handle the challenge' CHALLENGE?!?!?! WHERE IS THE CHALLENGE IN THAT? What I would like to know is why are so many people attracted to watching this junk. And it's not just Big Brother. Things like 'Pop Idol' 'Fame Academy' 'Castaway' 'Survivor' and countless others. They are just normal people! Where is the entertainment value in that? And then I wake up this morning, put the radio on, and what are the presenters talking about? Yep, discussing the people who went into the Big Brother House last night. Well, I for one refuse to watch any of it.

Oh, I also managed to watch about 3 minutes of something called 'How Clean Is Your House?' This was possibly even more pathetic than Big Brother. It featured 2 women going to someones house and... cleaning it! Dun Dun Duuuuuuun! What is the point of such a rubbish programme? Do tv producers really think we have nothing better to do that watch people clean a house? Or in the case of Big Brother, LIVE IN A HOUSE??? And then there's 'The Salon' I've never watched more than about 20 seconds of it, but from what I saw, and from what I've heard, it features.... people getting their hair cut! (which reminds me, I must get mine done this half term at some point) How can people watch that! What is so good about watching what goes on inside a hair dressers? Terrible, terrible...
Gone are the good programmes with propper actors... not like the good ol' days...
   6 comments

fpoole (fahrenheit 451)
July 8, 2004   08:49 PM PDT
 
I do too. :D Thanks.

Hey, If you're interested, there's a link to my blog and our little "consortium" at Stompp's page.

Like the music? ;)

/fpoole_
Jon
June 27, 2004   05:03 PM PDT
 
I like that quote
fpoole (fahrenheit 451)
June 23, 2004   08:31 PM PDT
 
A quite fun post to read, but it's all too true. Fact is, all media-susceptible people see the stuff and *rave* over how great it is. They haven't any taste of their own, they just accept what the media crams into their head as divine truth, and blow their hard-earned (or not so,) money on it. It's really bad in America. Really bad. What really gets me, as a musician (in a non-popular genre, too) is the lack of musical taste. Pop Idol is just finding someone with *natural physical ability* and placing them on a multi-million dollar media pedestal because they can rip off a song just as well as a drunk guy at karaoke night. lol.

Well, you didn't ask for my ranting, but if you've gotten this far, I've one thing to ask: at the top of the description on me SoundClick page, there's a quote, from me. Please let me know what you think of that. ;)

Interesting read. (Not like mine is...:)

/fpoole_
Jon
May 29, 2004   08:22 PM PDT
 
Well I may brush past a copy or two and casually catch a glimpse of the stories now and then :)
Davey C
May 29, 2004   04:44 PM PDT
 
I wouldn't know, I don't read ladies magazines.... JON! :)
Jon
May 29, 2004   04:02 PM PDT
 
Whats even more annoying is how women's magazines obsess over "Celebrities" from Big Brother when no one really cares. You get stories about that Jade fool playing with her son in the park. Whats so amazing about that?

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