The End of the Big Brother TV Show
Finally some Big Brother news worth hearing !
Celebrity BB 2008 has been axed
It finally looks like they are going to give up on this moronic TV programme. Channel 4 and Endemol have admitted that the series currently running, not featuring celebrities - though how you tell I don’t know, has been a ratings flop compared to past years.
Officially confirming that they are not going to proceed with another Celebrity Version of this crapola seems to lead the way towards the whole thing being dumped.
I don’t say it’s TV for morons out of arrogance, well perhaps I do, in fact I think the whole premise for the show is potentially excellent. Fill a room full of interesting people and see what it leads to.
My complaint is why they have to fill the room full of brain donors !
There seems to be this trend on British television to fill the screens with the lowest common denominators all the time.
Look at the soap operas - what’s wrong with having people on them that actually speak properly and are at least slightly educated.
The next generation are watching this dross and being influenced by it. This is why more teenage girls would rather be a celebrity or glamour model than a doctor or any other profession !
I for one will be glad to see it go !
Though I dread to think what they’ll replace it with - any suggestions ?
I put forward - The World’s Most Dangerous Paving Slabs
Though I would actually like to see them run the Japanese show Rock Fujiyama \m/
Enjoy the sun and the great news culture lovers
Rod
A Retired Bookdealer said,
August 27, 2007 @ 11:55 am
“End of BB - About Time”
This is just one of a lot of cheap-low budget TV programmes that have gone on and on well beyond there shelf-life. Even worse than the programmes themselves is the fact that some of these programmes go on to make huge profits off the back of people phoning in to vote for their favourite whatever on a premium rate phone-line.
You have to admire the TV channels for pulling this master stroke. At the end of the day as much as we all moan and groan about all this —-
nothing will change as long as people keep phoning in on a premium rate phone line.
Answer - Don’t moan about it just stop Phoning !
I was flicking through the channels about 1 am in the morning a couple of days ago when I happened to land on one of these phone in type programmes, on this one you have to find a missing word to win money, so the main word might be for example Coffee, you then have to find one of the other pre-selected words which are covered up on a board to go with Coffee, which for example could be Bean, Coffee Bean comes up on the board and then its congratulations with music and a lot of flashing lights you have won £250, which is marvellous you may say for the price of a 75p phone call.
But there is always a downside to everything when you phone in at a cost to you of seventy-five pence you are put on hold, then and only then if you are lucky enough you may get selected to take part in the programme, Should you not get randomly selected, you phone in again at the cost of 75p and so it goes on and on and on.
Anyway the shocker for me was a little box in the bottom left hand corner of the screen which stated that 1,700 of you were phoning in every fifteen minutes, the programme looked as though it was handing out £250 every half-hour or so. You can clearly see there is only and will only ever be one winner.
Again cheap TV no expensive actors, sets or any other expense for that matter, apart from quite a striking blond I seem to recall .
I would also like to point out that I did not invest in a 75p phone call.
Little Brother said,
August 27, 2007 @ 6:52 pm
Rod,
The end of Big Brother…there is a God
LB