Today I meet perhaps the only other person in the UK who does not watch or like Big Brother. Has the whole world gone mad?…are peoples lives some meaningless and boring that they need Big Brother…like a starving man needs a bowl of rice?
What is the fascination with watching a bunch of no talent weirdo’s live in a house?
Why don’t the people watching the show know that they are just encouraging more similar rubbish?
The production companies laugh all the way to the bank, because they make so much money on a show that costs them so little. Perhaps there have been quality TV pilots made and dropped because high-powered TV executives demand more reality shows.
Will the rabid watchers of this drivel be happy when the only shows on TV are reality shows? No more historical dramas..after all they are too expensive and don’t make as much profit…No more award winning nature programs, their audience is ever smaller than the historical drama.
Nearly all the quality programs these days are made in the US not the UK, we have more and more channels filled with repeats or dross. Of course there are exceptions (Dr Who is one of them) but can you name another 6 quality British made programs?
To me watching Big Brother is like being a nosy neighbour and peering through your curtains to see what is going on. Each show the producers play one person off against another, encouraging the contestants to sink to new lows. How far down this road do we go? When is enough …really enough? Should the contestants kill each other to decide who the winner is? I know that sounds far fetched but..if the concept of Big Brother was explained to audiences 20 years ago they would think you were mad.
2006-05-20 @ 02:16