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Post by rran on Jan 10, 2018 11:03:35 GMT
It tells us that the public are never to be considered when making art, because they're almost always wrong. Ha! Whilst it would be nice for Doctor Who to be represented, two of the most popular shows on UK television are Britain's Got Talent, featuring an hysterical audience howling to the sound of wannabe celebrities, and I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here, featuring a variety of mistreated animals and insects howling to the sound of past-it celebrities! Hardly a yardstick of quality television (but that's just my opinion). We have these talent shows and big-brother type of reality shows here as well. I agree with you. I seriously don't understand how people enjoy watching on-screen celebrities fight and argue But these things have a huge chunk of viewership where I live as well.
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Post by dalekbuster523finish on Jan 10, 2018 11:06:41 GMT
It tells us that the public are never to be considered when making art, because they're almost always wrong. Ha! Whilst it would be nice for Doctor Who to be represented, two of the most popular shows on UK television are Britain's Got Talent, featuring an hysterical audience howling to the sound of wannabe celebrities, and I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here, featuring a variety of mistreated animals and insects howling to the sound of past-it celebrities! Hardly a yardstick of quality television (but that's just my opinion). Those descriptions are doing a disservice to both shows IMO. Britain's Got Talent get some hugely talented acts - Diversity still being a massive success nine years after after winning the show in 2009 - and I'm A Celebrity is great in that it's a reality show that focuses more on a healthy relationship between the campmates rather than the usual constant arguments you get on other shows of that genre. I'm A Celebrity wouldn't be the same without Ant & Dec though. It's their hilarious links that really make it.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2018 11:38:01 GMT
Ha! Whilst it would be nice for Doctor Who to be represented, two of the most popular shows on UK television are Britain's Got Talent, featuring an hysterical audience howling to the sound of wannabe celebrities, and I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here, featuring a variety of mistreated animals and insects howling to the sound of past-it celebrities! Hardly a yardstick of quality television (but that's just my opinion). We have these talent shows and big-brother type of reality shows here as well. I agree with you. I seriously don't understand how people enjoy watching on-screen celebrities fight and argue But these things have a huge chunk of viewership where I live as well. I find them exploitative and beyond tiresome. They seem to me to be the epitome of 'dumbed-down' - shows that people have on in the background to occasionally distract them from their pizza!
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Post by dalekbuster523finish on Jan 10, 2018 11:51:38 GMT
We have these talent shows and big-brother type of reality shows here as well. I agree with you. I seriously don't understand how people enjoy watching on-screen celebrities fight and argue But these things have a huge chunk of viewership where I live as well. I find them exploitative and beyond tiresome. They seem to me to be the epitome of 'dumbed-down' - shows that people have on in the background to occasionally distract them from their pizza! I wouldn't say I'm A Celebrity is dumbed down compared to Big Brother. It's a reality show the entire family can enjoy that doesn't have non-stop arguments.
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Post by rran on Jan 10, 2018 12:10:09 GMT
We have these talent shows and big-brother type of reality shows here as well. I agree with you. I seriously don't understand how people enjoy watching on-screen celebrities fight and argue But these things have a huge chunk of viewership where I live as well. I find them exploitative and beyond tiresome. They seem to me to be the epitome of 'dumbed-down' - shows that people have on in the background to occasionally distract them from their pizza! I cannot stand any kind of reality show I run as far away from them as possible. Those and the social melodrama stuff that comes on our local TV in abundance - unbearable. Why do I even have a cable connection ?
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Post by jasonward on Jan 10, 2018 12:17:03 GMT
I find them exploitative and beyond tiresome. They seem to me to be the epitome of 'dumbed-down' - shows that people have on in the background to occasionally distract them from their pizza! I wouldn't say I'm A Celebrity is dumbed down compared to Big Brother. It's a reality show the entire family can enjoy that doesn't have non-stop arguments. I must not be part of a family then, the show makes my skin crawl.
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Post by sherlock on Jan 10, 2018 12:30:35 GMT
I find them exploitative and beyond tiresome. They seem to me to be the epitome of 'dumbed-down' - shows that people have on in the background to occasionally distract them from their pizza! I wouldn't say I'm A Celebrity is dumbed down compared to Big Brother. It's a reality show the entire family can enjoy that doesn't have non-stop arguments. Big Brother's still going?? I haven't watched BGT or I'm a Celebrity since going to uni and haven't missed either. Don't know about the rest of my family, I know they gave up X Factor years ago and I doubt they bother with I'm a Celebrity. Anyway what was the original topic? Oh the NTAs, wouldn't say it's disrespectful just that clearly Capaldi and Who didn't make much of an impression on whatever minority of the public votes in the nomination rounds. TV's a busy market, it happens.
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Post by dalekbuster523finish on Jan 10, 2018 12:37:09 GMT
Big Brother's still going?? Yeah, Channel 4 rightfully axed it a few years back but it was bought by Channel 5, so it's still remained post-axe on TV. I wish Channel 5 had just left it alone because that show is awful. X Factor has gone downhill. They introduce too many gimmicks now, like the terrible Prize Fight last series where the finalists were competing to win a prize like meeting Pink above the winner's single they're supposed to already have in their sights. As X Factor's quality has dropped, Britain's Got Talent has only got better IMO though. It's a much more light-hearted show now; the judging panel of Simon Cowell, Alesha Dixon, Amanda Holden and David Walliams is hilarious. Personally I'm A Celebrity wouldn't be the same for me without Ant & Dec, but I like how the celebrities tend to be more of a dysfunctional family rather than rivals who appear to hate each other like on Big Brother.
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Post by dalekbuster523finish on Jan 10, 2018 12:47:35 GMT
This thread's a bit pointless really. I just created it in the heat of the moment yesterday after being disappointed seeing Doctor Who and Peter Capaldi not being in the shortlist, but in hindsight it's a ridiculous thing to say given the changing TV landscape. Doctor Who simply isn't seen as event television.
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Post by doomlord on Jan 10, 2018 13:23:13 GMT
I’m baffled when certain posters have reputedly said recently that they ‘watch a lot of television’, that may well be the case, but whether it be current talked about quality drama or documentaries such as ‘The Night Manager’, ‘Taboo’, ‘Detectorists’, ‘Blue Planet II’, ‘Inside No.9’, ‘McMafia’ .... it strikes me as clearly evident from threads like this that they certainly don’t for all intents and purposes, and there is a difference ‘see a lot of television’.
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Post by dalekbuster523finish on Jan 10, 2018 14:54:53 GMT
I’m baffled when certain posters have reputedly said recently that they ‘watch a lot of television’, that may well be the case, but whether it be current talked about quality drama or documentaries such as ‘The Night Manager’, ‘Taboo’, ‘Detectorists’, ‘Blue Planet II’, ‘Inside No.9’, ‘McMafia’ .... it strikes me as clearly evident from threads like this that they certainly don’t for all intents and purposes, and there is a difference ‘see a lot of television’. Drama is such a vague term though. Nobody enjoys every single genre of TV drama - and it's the same with documentaries. To some, a David Attenborough documentary like Blue Planet 2 is event television, but to others like myself I'm A Celebrity is the one to pick. Ant & Dec beat most things for me.
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