ITV Guilty over BGT Stunt Dog
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OFCOM has ruled that ITV's Britain's Got Talent misled viewers over the use of a stunt dog and broke broadcasting regulations.
http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/aug/17/britains-got-talent-misled-viewers-over-stunt-double-dog-rules-ofcom
http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/aug/17/britains-got-talent-misled-viewers-over-stunt-double-dog-rules-ofcom
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If you read the Guardian article you will find ITV have offered to refund your money but doesn't say how you reclaim it.
Good luck with that, even if they offer you your money back, they will make you jump through so many hoops to even get close. It's the old refund con, they hope you give up.
Let this be a lesson to those who perpetuate the scam that is phone voting by premium rate number.
Could I use a secret stunt double to jump through the hoops for me?
refund
Probably the best way of getting a refund.
Nicely done.
Or may in fact have actually been a large cat in a small man suit inside the dog suit!
And we all know how easily a rabbit can be dressed up to look like a cat...
In fact I'm having doubts about the result of the 2015 General Election, the moon landings and also was Princess Diana actually JFK?
Don't be silly. We all know rabbits feet are far too big to walk across a tightrope. They would be told to hop it.
Ironically it was a magician who made a £5 note appear in a lemon, so not an honest act either. Some people would probably have complained that there was a hole in the bottom and it wasn't done by magic.
How much does it cost to call in? Surely the cost of postage and processing is going to cost them more than the refund is worth?
I guess that's ultimately an incentive not to do it again
50p .
What the whole thing is about that if as has been proven, viewers were misled before they voted, they therefore may not have voted for the dog act had they known.
And as the vote was very close between first and second place, that may have changed the winner.
So we now have this fiasco where the one they are carrying on with might not be the actual winner and so the whole thing is tainted. If they introduce her as the winner of BGT, that too may come into question as to whether she is/was?
They screwed up big time on this nonsense that they didn't go out of their way to deceive when they deliberately hid the other dog at the end for no reason than to make out that their was only one dog, doesn't fly with anyone who isn't a fan of hers.
BRAIN DEAD MORONS DUPED BY A COUPLE OF ANIMALS
next up
BRAIN DEAD MORONS DUPED BY MAGICIANS BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T GET THE TRICK
No comparison between the two acts.
The 'magician' was a conjuror. People KNOW what he does is a trick. His skill is his ability to conceal it.
The 'dog woman' did stage routines with a dog. I say "a" dog because that's what we, the viewers, were led to believe. It was one particular dog. With a name. We were never told the woman was using different dogs for different routines.
If you want to justify this deception by citing the magician, we might as well allow "singers" miming to backing tracks recorded by other people.
The producers of BGT are a disgrace. Can you imagine the furore if this had been a BBC show?
this is exactly what they want, people discussing it so when the next series is launched, there will be a "Hey, remember last year's controversy? What do you think will happen now?"
the X Factor is the same, years ago the voting stats were leaked proving that the judges tactical voting or decisions to send someone home were done to prevent the "talking points" from being sent home by public vote
at no point will anyone change how they act, this is how they think and there are people dumb enough to fall for it. if anyone was genuinely offended/disappointed then I'd recommend boycotting the channel altogether, but we all know the same mugs will just come back next year!
"reality" TV is not real, it's just another way to present a predetermined outcome but make some money from the viewers - you're there for profit, nothing else matters