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Anyone else Hate Reality TV ?
filmfan7
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Does anyone else hate reality TV ? whether its Big Brother ,Strictly Come Dancing , Britains Got Talent Celebratly get me out of here etc etc etc or we are creating TV where people are hating one another on it !. even shows like Come Dine With Me are getting like that !..I think we are being overwhelmed and brainwashed by them !....give me a good drama comedy or film anyday ! and what happend to the variety shows that had something for everyone on a weekend ! If this is entertainment id rather switch the TV off and go out for the night !
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Dave
I personally feel there is two much drama and sport on TV, but I appreciate it is watched by others so I just avoid it.
i feel its spawned lots of other reality proggrammes which is sad as the digital age has created all this interaction with the public ! sadly IMO its just overkill ! theres too much of it !
Same.
Also a cliched tiresome often expressed viewpoint.
Well !!! .ANYTHING on TV whether its Reality or otherwise !..if its overdone its tired aswell !
Really, if you watch a programme and don't like it, then find something else to do. If you continually watch something or some genre, then you obviously like it. You might hate yourself for doing so, but that's your problem - not the programme's.
Its just cheap, nasty & desperate stuff thats stiffling TV. Thank god for BBC4. The rest of it seems a cynical ploy to reduce electricity consumption & the need to buy batteries for the remote.
It's all designed for knobjockeys with sawdust for brains, or under 25s as they are commonly known.
ITV is market led. Advertisers largely dictate the programmes that get made and if the largest audiences are drawn to reality programmes, then this is what is going to get made whether we like it or not. ITV is not going to invest £10m in making an obscure drama that might only attract 3m viewers and only be able to acquire cheap advertisers. They need something the whole family will sit down to. So blame the British public for being so hungry for reality TV. If in the Autumn each episode of Downton Abbey gets 12m viewers and each episode of X Factor gets 5m viewers, guess where they'll be investing next year..
Also, and I know this is controversial and people won't agree with me, but people are naturally curious and like to see other 'real' people's lives, and also in the case of Strictly and DOI, enjoy watching someone who is famous for one thing, learning and mastering another. The whole ethos for TV when it was established was to Inform Educate and Entertain, well most people get their information and education via the net now, so TV has pretty much become just for entertainment.
Personally I would be quite happy to never see another episode of DOI, X Factor or Britain's Got Talent, but whether we like it or not, I think it's here to stay.
Nowt on telly for me tonight again, just diy and cooking again primetime. HAve recorded Strike it rich and The hitcher to watch tonight.
So its my problem for paying a hundred and odd quid licence fee to watch this garbage ??
haha ! yes imagine all those remotes on the scrapyard of remotes worn out with pressing the red button !
The Hunks, America's next top model and all that bollocks though I avoid at all costs.
Personally I think each channel should have one channel dedicated to reality programming (ideally BBC3, ITV2, More4) and the rest should be made up of dramas and decent documentaries. But as I said earlier, in the case of ITV2 if you shoved BGT for example onto that, suddenly the most expensive advertising space on TV would be for ITV2!!
Therefore, like everything else on TV, there are some good and some bad..in my opinion.
Exactly. My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding could be considered 'reality' TV and there is no way on earth I'd lump that in with The Hunks or TOWIE (even though I do love that programme
as i've stated in other threads similar to this, i'm watching less and less tv because of poor quality tv programmes.
Only for using my dvd player, my tv would hardly be on.
Look at the UK channels, and ask yourself. If it wasnt for American programs, what the hell could we show on our TV?
You cannot lump them all together. I enjoy Strictly come Dancing and Apprentice and some of the others. Big Brother was great when it first started but in the end was a farce. I'm afraid all reality programmes in the end self destruct as the producers try new ways to jazz them up, which mostly make them worse. This is even happening to Strictly and Apprentice .
I would love a good drama, comedy or film but I find its nearly impossible to find quality drama,comedy or films today .
nonsense, i hate them too. total irritating, tedious, repetitive trash.
That makes no sense. No sense at all.
We all have to pay the licence fee, so that's moot. If you watch programmes that you "hate" then it sounds like there's something wrong with you - does someone else force you to watch them?
I do enjoy some of the programmes like Next Top Model, The Apprentice, Dragon's Den and Four Weddings.
Totally agree with Come DIne With Me and Three In a Bed.
The most bizarre obnoxious people are deliberately chosen to be on the show.
Strangely enough I don't like American programmes. I've never seen an episode of 24, Mad Men, Ugly Betty, Heroes, The Walking Dead, True Blood. I tried Boardwalk Empire and found it tedious. In my opinon, when we do drama well, we do it better than anyone else. That's why I watch so much BBC4!