Excessive promotion of "The Call Centre"
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BBC Three is seriously over-hyping this latest docu-soap drivel. The announcers are acting as if it's the greatest programme ever made and there's even a countdown in-between programmes.
As someone who usually defends the TV Licence, I'm pretty disgusted to see public money being spent on promotional films for Nev Wilshire's businesses.
As someone who usually defends the TV Licence, I'm pretty disgusted to see public money being spent on promotional films for Nev Wilshire's businesses.
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Now we have The Call Centre. Life imitating art but in an incredibly depressing way since these people seem to want to be characters and aren't fictional creations just for our entertainment.
It's actually really depressing to think ten years on we can't do better so now we're just filming wannabes rather than actual comedy actors.
To be honest it seems like they only have maybe 2 original entertainment productions a day and a dozen a week these days excluding the news.
It seems like a lot of money goes to over hyped one off drama series like Inside Men, unfunny comedies like Me and Mrs Jones and Heading Out which shouldn't have been ordered to series at all and making programs everyone else has already made many times before so a TV personality can go on a staycation or a foreign "adventure". I'm waiting for Miranda Does America, Fiona Bruce's Europe, Lee Mack and Rhod Gilbert's Down To Delhi or Millican Across Africa to get greenlit at this rate.
Honestly the fact they fund crap like Cash In The Attic and Doctors, shows on at times when a large audience can't watch, but then the only worthwhile programming in the evening right now is The Chef's Protege which while good is not that dissimilar from Service, The Restaurant or Masterchef in terms of "offering the amateurs a one off shot at impressing a Michelin star chef".
It's quite sad to think Pulling, Mongrels and How Not To Live Your Life have been replaced with Sun, Sea and Suspicious Parents and other similarly exploitative low rent reality show tat but considering most performers apparently realise BBC Three does not favour original productions or the people involved (look at how all the original cast of Being Human fled as soon as they could for other projects when they got offers and how Horgan went back to trying to work with Channel 4), it seems like current sensibilities are in favour of filming people on the job already so they don't have to pay them, only the employers to film on their premises, rather than making anything creative that can be turned into a long running series.
I thought that it was a comedy in the mould of Twenty Twelve, a view strengthened by one article that I read somewhere.
But maybe it is indeed a documentary , we've had one before following that uPVC double glazing company U-Fit.
And Nev Wilshire seems to exist:
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/business/business-news/neville-wilshire-one-great-survivors-2495572
http://www.nevillewilshire.com/
I'd watch if they were 'Miranda's Uganda', 'Lee Mack In Iraq', 'Fiona's Barcelona', 'Rhod on Cod (Wars)' or 'Millican's Brazillians'.
Well, maybe not that last one.
lol 'Lee Mack in Iraq' sounds particularly riveting
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1830721&page=2
Angela Rippon came on and took one of the people involved in this new show to task over the practice of cold calling. I didn't see any problem with it.
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In what situation you'd be expected to stand on the desk and strip off, in a call centre, I don't know!
I hate cold callers and would like to see them all heavily penalised but the way that he was entrapped was wrong and Rippon started throwing accusations at him without any evidence.
And who the f*** is impressed if a call centre in Swansea is "award-winning"? Perhaps next year's National Call Centre Awards will be televised to fill a few hours on BBC Three? Oh well, I suppose handing out meaningless awards provides work and a free meal for ex-Radio 1 DJs who haven't (yet) been arrested by Operation Yewtree.
They sound better, I can actually imagine Fiona's Barcelona airing on a Sunday evening on BBC1. However the reason I chose the countries I did is because they are the places EVERYONE goes for these programmes, Europe, India, Africa and America.
First it was Michael Palin, then Keith Floyd, more recently it's been Stephen Fry, Rich Hall and Russell Brand across America, Angela Rippon, Lenny Henry and some radio presenters in Africa... it seems like a rite of passage all BBC A listers have to do a travel show nobody how badly they are suited for the job.
It doesn't mention what awards... Worst Dress Code Policy seems to be something they'd get nominated for every year.