Even amid the acceleration of Western civilization’s downhill slide that reality television'' represents, Back to Reality,’’ the latest brain drizzle from Britain’s Channel 5, must be a nadir of nadirs. Twelve celebrities'' have been shut togther in an artificial mansion built in a TV studio, the gimmick being that each one came by his/her alleged celeb status by participating in a previous reality television’’ show.
The attention-seeking narcissists include Uri Geller of spoon-bending fame and James Hewitt of xxxxxing Princess Diana fame. The winner gets to donate £75,000 to a charity of his/her choice and brag about being Britain’s most popular ``reality television star.’’
Speaking of attention-seeking narcissists, the ``mansion’’ was inspired by the home of David and Victoria Beckham, aka Beckingham Palace.
This is not intended to be an anti-British rant at all, as I enjoy living here, but Lord, what an entirely pointless waste of time. Anyone who chooses to watch this crap deserves to be eliminated from the gene pool, IMHO.
I saw the first 15 minutes of this. and then I changed the channel.
Is there something wrong with me? that I don’t know why they keep giving television time to ‘Jade off Big Brother’? why am I the only one that sees this fucking mang should not be allowed in front of a camera, and wasting everyones time.
People with no redeeming qualities whatsoever are few and far between, but Channel 5 have managed to get 12 of them altogether in one house. that must be some kind of acheivement.
I’m more famous than some of these fuckers. And I want the Oxford English Dictionary to redefine the word ‘celebrity’, for it surely doesn’t mean the same as it did before in these days of fucking dogshit waste of time TV.
The only thing I can possibly think of is that she’s vaguely preferable to Lizzie off of Wife Swap, who is the uber munter welfare scrounging scumbag of our age.
The trouble with these things is that they offer a huge return on investment to the makers, compared to anything else … not because they’re more popular, but simply because they’re so cheap to make. 75 grand? Peanuts in a programme-maker’s budget … the string of Z-list celebs like Geller and Hewitt will work for next to nothing, the drooling fame-hungry wannabes who infest Big Brother and its ilk actually will do it for nothing … pretty much stuff-all in the way of production costs once you’ve got the set and the cameras up in the first place; nothing much to worry about in the way of directing, editing, scripting …
Basically, it’s dirt cheap to make a TV programme, if you can cut out everything that makes it worth watching.
Hmm. I wonder what’s on TV tonight … I, Claudius? Doctor Who? One of the old Avengers episodes with Diana Rigg (damn sight better looking than Jade Goody, that’s for sure)? … Best investment I ever made, that DVD player.