‘The Fall and Fall of Great Television.’
What exactly is happening to our television programmes? Just about every channel you watch these days is full of ‘Reality'TV shows. It all started many years ago with ‘Big Brother'(one of the world’s most boooooring shows ever in my opinion) and, since then things have steadily gone from bad to worse!
Surely it would be far more advantageous for broadcasters to create good quality programmes? Think back to the ‘golden days'of television when there was always something decent to watch! Why oh why has it come to this? Are modern programme makers totally deluded? Or perhaps they have simply run out of good ideas???
No, there is actually a far simpler reason for this new wave of ‘Reality'TV shows; it is called ‘money’. Whenever you come across something in life which simply does not equate then (99.9% of the time) it will be tied-up with wonga. As Roger Waters once put it; ‘Can’t you see? It all makes perfect sense; expressed in dollars and cents, pounds, shillings and pence.'
Not only is ‘Reality'TV a dumbing-down of intelligent content, but it is also a kind of data deduplication of broadcasting staff. Think about it; cheap and nasty set design, no expensive ‘established stars'to pay for and an audience who are convinced that what they are seeing is an ‘accurate'reflection of society. It really is a win-win situation for programme makers! ‘Reality'TV is inexpensive to create and it draws in a record number of viewers.
And that, my friends, is the sad-but-true reason why so many of our channels are now taken-up with this type of ‘entertainment’. But hey; that’s show-business…
Similar Posts:
Things You Can Do Other Than Drink : I have been on antibiotics…
The Future? : I’m in business, am well up with the latest…
Tattoos and what they mean : Tattoos have held the attention of…





