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It's kind of weird, people wanting shows axed that they don't watch, that's pretty sad, shame on you sad people. Oh by the way, I love both shows :P

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Well you wouldn't want them to axe a show that you do watch, would you?

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Not weird at all. Together with all the result shows, and other hype they take up several hours of TV each. Hours that could be used for something decent. Then there is the fact that it's hard to pick up a newspaper without being exposed to what is happening on the latest Pop-Idol/Opportunity-knocks-with-phone-voting clone from Simon Cowell. That's without mentioning that the TV and Radio news often carry items about them as well.

If the rest of that hype didn't happen, I would just ignore the shows.

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That's just crazy, nowadays we have multi channels, the internet and dvd/blu ray so get your entertainment where you want it from. These shows don't have to be watched.

If they get in the media that's because the media thinks they will sell newspapers. My tip, don't read/buy tabloid newspapers. Journalists are a bunch of self satisfying egotists in my opinion.

Look, I love these shows as they are easy going and entertaining family shows. I got three kids and they love them. They don't do any harm so leave them alone :D

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It's not crazy at all. And you have picked up on something specific I said while totally missing the point of what I said. Which is: Thanks to the amount of hype generated by these assorted shows, it is almost impossible to avoid seeing at least something about them unless you totally cut yourself off from the media.

This is something I don't want to do, and don't see why I should have to.

As for not doing any harm? How about to the careers of those they promise success and fame to? Think about that. Cowell has been pedalling these sorts of shows for over ten years now. How many of the winners are still famous and successful? Not many.

As for the multi channels/DVD comment. True, we do have those things. If I want to watch a cheap American import or a repeat on Saturday night, I can. I just tune to Living, any Sky channel or any one of the old UKTV channels. Perhaps I don't want to. Same with DVDs.

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I wish these reality shows would be kicked out and the money invested properly.. Too many good shows like The Bill have been ruined and are no longer being made. ITV for sure has gone down down hill.

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why does seeing something about the show in the media cause an issue. There are lots of things in the media I don't care about. It doesn't worry me, I just ignore it or file it under "meh"

Also, your second point, who is still famous? I mean come on, Olly Murrs is currently number one, Diana Vickers is doing well, JLS have many hits, Diversity are everywhere and sold out......none of these were the winners. So in my book, they've done ok out of the shows.

To me, Saturday night is about family entertainment. The type that doesn't really require you to think too much. I mean who wants to be intellectually challenged on a Saturday night?

There are many shows I don't watch or don't really care about. However I realise that others enjoy them so good for them, I won't stand in their way and I certainly wouldn't come onto an Internet forum baying for their blood. If the show appears in the media, I would also ignore that. People tell me Glee is liked, it doesn't interest me, not going to worry about it but if it rocks your boat, good for you.

Anyway, this has gone way too serious. We all know Simon Cowell will only make the programmes whilst he can screw us for money. When it loses money it will die.

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But there's a difference between "family entertainment" and the public humiliation of quite a few of the contestants - everyone who appears on the TV show has been auditioned before they go before the panel; do we really believe that the ones everyone laughs at because they are so bad suddenly deteriorated overnight, or have they been put on the TV because they are so bad?

I am sorry, but putting people up for public humiliation is not, in my eyes, family entertainment.

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So did Gareth Gates and Will Young while the hype machine was still interested. Where are they now? For that matter, where are most of Hearsay? The members of that band with long term success are no longer singing.

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For me and I think others as well the bill was ruined when they started bringing in people that had left soaps. It was like a second home for them. When they done that I stopped watching it.

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I do..after all Mon -Fri are work days and I need less stimulation then.I need to wind down.

Saturday Night if I don't go out I want a good film or drama with an actual plot and possibly an inspirational story.

I cannot recall the last time I bothered watching Saturday Night TV..without just falling asleep from boredom.:rolleyes:

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I feel sorry for the kids these days. When I grew up in 70s, I had bands that 20 years later i could listen still to.

The kids now, they have Jedward. I can see mass suicide sessions :(

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I would like to see Londons Burning and the original Family Fortunes back on a saturday night, also i want Heart Beat back haha, i used to love sitting with the family watching all these.

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ahh..I remember trying to guess the answers to family fortunes..those were the days :D

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They still show the old shows on Challenge of Famiyl Fortunes. I loved Les Dennis doing it. He was much better than Vernon Kay. Also why does Vernon Kay only have the Celebs on it and not ordinary people. I loved strick it lucky as well and Michael Barrymores' "My kind of people"