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Originally Posted by denphone
Yes l have to agree with you as l am fed up with these talent shows and would much rather watch a Science fiction series or a good drama series then watching a bunch of wanabees celebritys flouncing around all the time.
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Don't forget to watch some science fact too!
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Originally Posted by Kingofthedead4
And dont forget the never ending cooking series what now seem to be appearing everywhere, as well as chat shows.
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Then there are the 'fusion' shows: celebrities cooking, cooking talent shows, Heston Blumenthal cooking with science (sometimes resulting in science-fiction creations), renovating a river cottage while stalking wildlife to put in your casserole.
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Originally Posted by denphone
... as for cooking shows they need to go back to basics to learn some people of how to cook properly before they start to become more extravagant in their cooking.
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I noticed Fanny Cradock on Good Food the other day with her Christmas recipes and I'm sure Delia is still to be found demonstrating simple meals with a few eggs.
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Originally Posted by andy_m
Which only goes to prove the point made by Felim Doyle earlier. People want trash!
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Yeah, just like the illegal drug trade, if the authorities concentrated on eliminating the demand, they wouldn't have to eliminate the supply which is generally more difficult. In a democracy, it's hard to control the media but if people were more discerning in their choice of viewing and reading material, the commercial ramifications would do the controlling automatically.
The BBC One / Challenge quiz show Pointless is quite entertaining but it's sometimes astonishing what the contestants and the surveyed public do and don't know. I'm sorry to say it's becoming reminiscent of polls in the US where fewer than 50% of the public knew who the current president was and such like. I'm sure there are some segments of the UK population who know more about the lives of fictional characters on TV or the actors that play them than the important things that directly affect their own lives.
The various BBC and ITV talent shows have produced some good acts but some duds too. Unfortunately, many of the duds from talent and
reality shows have continued to negatively impact our lives by hosting shows of their own and fuelling the tabloids with their dysfunctional lives.
So, if we are to raise the standard of the publicly funded programming, we also need to raise the standard of the commercially funded programming and that requires the public to demand better quality.
Virgin Media are a commercial enterprise and will endeavour to supply the channels that their customers demand (i.e. will pay for). So, in 2012, it's up to us to influence what's "Coming Soon to Virgin TV" so that we get what we want and not what we deserve!
Yeah I know, a simplistic view but it's a starting point.