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     Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.170.200.175 |
...Worst ever TV programme is currently being won by the excrable (I like that word!) 'Bonekickers'. However...there is a contender. Spooks:Code 9. This is an utterly appalling attempt to combine the rather good & long running Spooks with ...Well...It appears to be Hollyoaks. London falls victim to a nuclear attack in 2012. this is quickly dispensed with as our juvenile heroes get down to the important things like how trendy they are and whether their sculpted hair looks right before they start the day as MI5's latest recruits. Bloody hell. Doctor Who did this better last season and thats saying something. I can't tell you how awful this is. Just watch it.once, and once alone. Dear me. gcw | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
Turn your telly off, mate. Just a thought. | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.170.200.175 |
I like moaning about bad telly - indulge me. gcw | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.170.200.175 |
"Turn your telly off, mate. .." No, hang on , thats just crap Gary, its a defeatist 'shrug shoulder' surrender to rubbish. TV can and should be so much better than this nonsense. Anyway, I don't always moan, please note my earlier comments on the fine 'Criminal Justice'. So bloody there. gcw | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
You're right. It should do better. You could always write to Points of View. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
Seriously, as someone once said: "TV doesn't suck. It is sucked." And of its effects on children: "The only medium that can turn an irrestible force into an immovable object." | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.157.91.38 |
I must say I didn't even bother with this for the very reason you say, mate - looks like Spooks crossed with Hollyoaks. Unfortunately it seems as if these recent programmes are aimed at the 18-25 market, which I'm long, long passed. ITV aimed at the same market, but did a much better job, with PRIMEVAL, I thought. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
>>>aimed at the 18-25 market Not the 18-25 feet tall market, you're not. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.157.91.38 |
Not the 18-25 feet tall market, you're not. :-) Yeah, shame all bridges aren't like Tower Bridge - I hate having to duck! | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
I trust you got my email the other day, sir. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.157.91.38 |
I trust you got my email the other day, sir. I did indeed, young feller me lad - just giving you the silent teatment so's you give in and come to FCon! | ||
| Stu (Stu) Username: Stu Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 86.29.105.81 |
I caught about 30 seconds of SC9 and decided that was enough. Mind you, I was at work, trying to find something for the residents to watch. So we went from SC9 to Midsomer Murders. Not entirely convinced that was an improvement in quality. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.77.197 |
British telly is controlled by patronising idiots who think we're all dumb. Apparently material which is perceived as being too demanding is jettisoned on account of the fact that it might alienate viewers. Example: in The Simpsons there are throwaway jokes about, say, palindromes. Well, in a mainstream British show, those lines would be cut out because they might confuse us thickos. The idea is that TV shouldn't be 'elitist', shouldn't exclude anyone. ??? | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
It isn't just TV, mate - the whole of the media (and society) is being dumbed down and homogeonised, IMHO. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.76.230 |
And it isn't just about silly lines in sit-coms. An interesting case study was when John Pilger's documentary about Palestine was shown by Carlton Television. After 150 complaints, the director of the company tried to get Pilger to change his facts. Scary. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.160.23.143 |
Wasn't it Thoreau who said that when the wrong people are in power, it's dangerous to be right? | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.77.198 |
No, it wasn't. Absolutely not. (Sorry, just fearful of agreeing lest I moderate myself.) | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.77.198 |
Mercifully, an independent review committee maintained that Pilger's documentary was honest. But for how much longer...? | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
Scary stuff... | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.76.215 |
Look at the Express's handling of Lobbygate... Palast the LIAR. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.76.215 |
But the tabloids are soft targets. This kind of thing is also present in our more 'trustworthy' sources of info. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
There are no trustworhy sources of info. :-/ | ||
| Stu (Stu) Username: Stu Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 86.29.100.65 |
Re: palindromes in TV humour. Caught a repeat of RED DWARF the other night where Rimmer claimed to have written a palindromic haiku. Although the joke was based more round laughing at the idea that he'd had his IQ temporarily boosted to the extent where he used such words rather than the viewers necessarily understanding what the words actually meant. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.77.198 |
>>>There are no trustworhy sources of info. Many NGOs (without the meddling of business) should be taken seriously. I fear that the "no trustworthy sources of info" is becoming just another way for people to avoid looking into things, as effective as apathy. | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 87.62.5.130 |
It was surreal to have the olympics opening on one channel and a war breaking out on the other, and the double coverage was just surreal. There's a guy flying in the air with the olympic torch, on the other channel, a jet drops a bomb. I was reminded of how hard it is sometimes to get any sort of clear picture with both sides of a conflict giving different versions of some truth to the same media...especially with the advent of 24 hr. live news. Its all about headline media, even print newspapers are starting to read like internet webpages. Metro newspapers etc certainly have the headline news format- short with little depth or analysis...depends on the paper of course, but it looks like the smaller papers are more popular and are staying better afloat unfortunatly... |