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**Chris** · 07-12-2005, 11:11

I knew nothing about it apart from the trailers until I read an item in the paper this morning. I thought it was going to be a comedy in the vein of Red Dwarf!

I don't know what to make of it now, I have grown more and more ambivalent towards the whole genre of Reality TV, but at least with something like Big Brother, you know that the people getting humiliated are the authors of their own downfall.

I am far from certain about the morality of doing this to people who have not courted publicity or TV stardom. If someone goes on Big Brother and is then tarred for the next five years as 'that self-important moron from that show' then that's their own fault. But what of these unwitting 'contestants'? None of them will have asked for it if they get labelled 'that stupid mug who didn't realise he was in the middle of a big TV stunt'.

Besides, Rome is on BBC2 at the same time and I'll be watching that. It's been rather good.

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Chris Trollsplatter Cable Forum Team Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: North of Watford Services: Humane elimination of all common Internet pests Posts: 38,607	Re: Space Cadets I knew nothing about it apart from the trailers until I read an item in the paper this morning. I thought it was going to be a comedy in the vein of Red Dwarf! I don't know what to make of it now, I have grown more and more ambivalent towards the whole genre of Reality TV, but at least with something like Big Brother, you know that the people getting humiliated are the authors of their own downfall. I am far from certain about the morality of doing this to people who have not courted publicity or TV stardom. If someone goes on Big Brother and is then tarred for the next five years as 'that self-important moron from that show' then that's their own fault. But what of these unwitting 'contestants'? None of them will have asked for it if they get labelled 'that stupid mug who didn't realise he was in the middle of a big TV stunt'. Besides, Rome is on BBC2 at the same time and I'll be watching that. It's been rather good.