Boring boring boring tv... It's obviously easier and cheaper to produce cr*p like this than a decent intelligent documentary...
Well said, Gill. Ah... if only the money didn't follow people like him and programmes like that - there's the rub; and it follows them because they have an audience. And I suppose we'd be called elitist or the like if we dared to argue against that audience's tastes.
Even my son was telling me yesterday that the new Big Brother was much, much worse than the last, which he thought had reached rock bottom. But, as I say, there must be an audience out there - and a big one, to satisfy the advertisers.
I'm reminded of a poem by Philip Larkin:
Fiction and the Reading Public
Give me a thrill, says the reader,
Give me a kick;
I don’t care how you succeed or
What subject you pick.
Chose something you know all about
That’ll sound like real life:
Your childhood, your Dad pegging out,
How you sleep with your wife.
But that’s not sufficient, unless
You make me feel good –
Whatever you’re ‘trying to express’
Let it be understood
That ‘somehow’ God plaits up the threads,
Makes ‘all for the best’,
That we may lie quiet in our beds
And not be ‘depressed’.
For I call the tune in this racket:
I pay your screw,
Write reviews and the bull on the jacket –
So stop looking blue
And start serving up your sensations
Before it’s too late;
Just please me for two generations –
You’ll be ‘truly great’.
Philip Larkin