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Originally Posted by Debsy42
Bifta, I'll try and give you a rep when I can for that smilie, need to spread it round first or if someone can on my behalf  |
Done..
Now, on to Big Brother. I have to admit, when I first saw it I did like it, but didn't really go out of my way to watch it (I enjoyed it if it was on). Now, (particularly after BB4) I find I would rather have my teeth pulled than watch another episode.
I think the problem is that the contestants have wised up to Big Brother, and play up to it now, where as for the first couple of years (particularly BB1) , they didn't really know what they were doing so just seemed to act normally. Of course. normally is a relative term, and I do think some of the contestants were a bit, well, round the bend.
Then we had BB2. The contestants started to play up a bit. Particularly Brian Dowling (who could, admittedly, be quite funny). With BB3, the whole thing became a bit of a farce with all of the contestants acting up to some extent. And then, BB4.. Lets just say that watching paint dry was far more interesting than watching that bunch of wasters.
Now, BB5. I don't know what it will be like. Nor do I care particularly.BB has run it's course. The whole point of the "experiment" (if you can call it that) was supposed to be to see how people react when they live their lives on camera. People are playing up. So, we are seeing them how they want us to, not how they are. The only thing it seems to exist for now is to provide Channel 4 with a cheap but very profitable way to fill the airwaves.
Regarding reality tv in general, and I include all those programs where the cameras follow a person for a year for some reason (like the one that followed the residents of Soho Square a while back), and programs like Wife Swap (despite the fact that I enjoy this program and am actually friends with some of the crew who work on it).
Well, I think there is far too much of it on TV. TBH, it has got to the point where if you removed all the soaps, reality tv progs and all the "cop is slightly dodgy, but gets results anyway" drama mini series, you wouldn't find an awful lot left on the BBC1 and ITV schedules.
I would like to sit down one night and watch a really good sci fi program, or a drama with no police or murders involved, and then a good documentary. Even the soaps would be better if they didn't resort to re-using their or other people's storylines and relying on storylines involving people jumping into bed at any opportunity.
It's not going to happen anytime soon though because the people in charge lack imagination, reality tv is cheaper and the public still watch it (so it is profitable).