Is it me or is this prog the worst ever in history. a load of d list celebs jollying it up in the sun, what a load of f------ crap. thing is you turn over and what u got big brother 6 ?, god help us were all doomed.:help: :help:

The very title sounds cringe making and is enough to put me off. It sounds like the very last thing I would ever want to see on TV, with the possible exception of Anne Widdecombe doing a pole dance (come to think of it, that could be fun).

It is Wallpaper television for folk who could get excited about watching paint dry - providing some non-entity (failed singer, failed footballer, failed hooker) attached its name to it.

But ITV in particular is packed solid with junk like this! It's no wonder they can't get companies to advertise on their channels. And that's the other point: They oblige us with three channels of the same rubbish. 'Car Drivers from Hell'? Wow, must-see television. NOT!

The knock-on effect is that this junk then fills endless pages in rags like the Sun simply because some prostitute's got her thre'penny bits out! Ooh, I'm shocked.

I couldn't watch this bland, pathetic, useless dross even if you paid me.

I couldn't give a fig for the losers that line-up to appear in this dung. It worries me slightly more, though not too much, that others are prepared to base their lives around this trash.

I'd say Get A Life, but I'd be wasting my breath.

Am I the only person on earth, well in UK anyway, that is not interested in the slightest about Big Brother and all the other spin offs like Celebrity Love Island and all those 3rd rate celebs in the Australian outback?

If not, can somebody please explain to me what the attraction of these programmes are?

thank you

no sorry, not interested here either.

can't explain the appeal, other than grubby voyeurism.

Grubby voyeurism perhaps, but also an insight, not in to the celebs and media wannabes involved, but in to society and the media space which we've created.

Jon, thank you for your posting but I am poles apart from you. As a communications teacher for WEA and Shefield Adult Education I still can not see the appeal, not even grubby voyeurism. It does nothing to challenge any ideology nor bring to viewers attention that this is filling the media space we have created.

I'm with you Bruce.

Have you seen that you can subscribe to watch it all live online for about £15?!

Man, if anyone wants to slip me a fiver I'll let them sit in the corner of my living corner of my room and watch a bunch of people do nothing much and have the occasional argument.

Come on people....this will be in the "flesh".

It's Joe, btw.

And I'm not an academic, which possibly gives me an insight in to what non-academics think of these things.

We have a culture in which 'fame' and 'celebrity' and 'being in' are valued more than many civilised values. This is a product of the way the media has servved us over the years. A media application of Gresham's Law - 'the bad drives out the good'.

If you have magazines, newspapers, TV shows that basically value the Beckhams more highly than a teacher who's work educates hundreds, if not thousands, of children over their career then we shouldn't be surprised that people feel that the only way they can be 'valued' in society is by having soem sort of celebrity.

Whilst you and I may not agree with this, it is the way that many young people today think.

The media has created this culture, and it's most accessible manifestations - 'celeb lite', so to say, are available through things like BB and other shows that feature Z list celebrities because it offers a similar escape route to some as the Lottery does. A way to achieve what people want by being lucky. No effort, but potentially lots of gain.

And for the viewers - it's 'car crash television' - so bad you want to watch it. It also is part of the 'zeitgeist' - it's water cooler TV. People talk about it - I like to share points of contact with people I work with and consider my friends.

It's not challenging an ideology - it's maintaining it. The challenge comes from discussions like this. The challenge comes when we make these people realise we're laughing AT them, not with them, that we the viewers can be the lions in their colliseum, and not the crowds.

Joe

Got to agree with you, Bruce. It seems to me to be people with very little going on in their own lives that rave about these shows. Definitely no interest here.

What is Celebrity Love Island ?

This time last year, we were discussing "i'm a celebrity"/ "BB " etc.

Back then, I suggested a new and improved format that could be used.

All these z-list "celebs" should be taken off, out to an island, and, basically, ....erm... left there!

It's not so much the format of the show, (which, you have to admit, has been done to death)

- it's the fact that we have overkill,

at the moment we have BB6 which has started this weekend,

we've had celeb love island,

and the farm...

(as well as various permutations of BB, I'm a celeb' -bb, I'm a celebrity get me out of here, etc that have been on in the recent past)

we cannot move for these sort of shows, and i think it's about time we had a little more originality of thinking of show producers.

We have had "the villa", "temptation island" "survivor" (in various guises), that programme where a group of people were on a Hebridean island...

there's "extreme makeover", "the swan" etc.

Over recent years we have had a total glut of hackneyed show formats that were constantly being recycled and rehashed,

first it was the decorating and diy shows that we were swamped with,

then it was gardening, that was done to death,

and cookery...

then Trinny and Susannah's What not to wear

any number of programmes on the premise of"hot property"/ "property doctor"/ "a place in the sun"/ "Moving Day" etc...

Then it was shows like "pop idol", and "fame academy",

now it's all these reality shows.

we have reality shows coming out of our ears, and I have to admit, that they leave me cold.

All I would like is shows that give me pause for thought; that are stimulating.

The producers wheel out the same, tired formats, over, and over, with no originality. it's all "TV by Numbers".

PT

lots of attractive people...in the sun.....wearing very little......

I've got to agree with you, they're just a bunch of has beens
trying to restart their flagging careers, I enjoyed the jungle and survivor but not this tripe, and I don't like big brother either, who's bothered who's knocking who off, it's played out.

Hi I dont watch any tv at all to busy doing other things. we have 3 tv's in our house and none in my study room. whats the point it is all the same, repeats & more repeats there isnt a decent program on either channel. so I dont bother if I need to know whats going on in the world I have got the internet enough said

Bruce ;) is right. TV is getting worse. They are so devoid of ideas they simply nick or twist other channel's output and flog the format to death.

We've had the DIY shows, the gardening shows, the cookery shows and we are now at the bottom of the proverbial barrel with reality shows.

But, as long as there are low-intellect 'Heat' reading couch slobs out there gawping and gossiping about such rubbish, I've no doubt that Big Brother 20 will make it's debut in the future.

Shows have their endings spoilt by the screen being squashed up into a corner so they can tell you what's coming on in the next few minutes, or there is an irritating banner at the top of the screen.

And what's the big idea about splitting up a film for just ten minutes of news? It was just ITV at first, but now the BBC are doing it.

After seeing Heat advertised so much I read it while in the dentist. I've never read such tripe in a long time and you mean to says this stuff actually sells.
I don't watch B Brother or Celebrity Love Island or any such program. I think it's so intrusive and panders to the worst in people both watchers and the watched.
hazel

I refuse to watch self-important, tenth-rate 'entertainers' lewdly disporting themselves, and generally behaving like genetic refuse. I thought that television had reached a peak of the grotesque with 'Big Brother' and Jade Goody [her unpleasant, gurning visage and deformed genitalia were, one suspects, the inspiration behind another favourite of the underclasses- the so-called, 'Crazy Frog']. It appears that I was wrong.

As there seems to be no hope whatsoever for a return to the days of intelligent television, perhaps velvet-suited, sensitive souls such as I should 'go with the flow', in common parlance. Why not? May I then make a suggestion? Why not introduce an interesting variation on 'Celebrity Love Island', in which communist locals [modelled on the Viet-Cong, perhaps?] over-run the island in the name of national liberation. The entire cast are then labelled 'criminal pirates', and marched to a 'Re-Education Centre' deep in the jungle, where they may 'reflect upon their crimes'. Needless to say, they are never heard of again. Now that would be entertaining television.

Originally posted by timo
...May I then make a suggestion? Why not introduce an interesting variation on 'Celebrity Love Island', in which communist locals [modelled on the Viet-Cong, perhaps?] over-run the island in the name of national liberation. The entire cast are then labelled 'criminal pirates', and marched to a 'Re-Education Centre' deep in the jungle, where they may 'reflect upon their crimes'. Needless to say, they are never heard of again. Now that would be entertaining television.
We could suggest that the "celebrities" are the lovechildren of various high profile Nazi's (like say Reinhard Heydrich, amongst others)...

...Mosad would have them out of there well before the first advert had finished...

...hey presto!

:thumbsup:

Originally posted by hazel
After seeing Heat advertised so much I read it while in the dentist. I've never read such tripe in a long time and you mean to says this stuff actually sells.

Especially when they put misleading stuff on the cover. Last week had 'Kylie: "I WILL get through this" - Exclusive'.

There was absolutely nothing exclusive in it, certainly no interview with Kylie, just a few quotes taken from friends and family that were available everywhere else.

I am not the least interested in this programme. It is exactly the type of show that I tend to avoid.

Not even heard of it until I read this thread :suspect:

It's not the shows, it's the people in them. Like that bloke who used to be in Hollyoaks... he is such a cretinous, attention-seeking, desperate nonentity it's almost too much for the human brain to comprehend.

Here's all you need to know about what those in the know are calling'CLI':

http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguide/tvradio/story/0,14676,1492784,00.html

Originally posted by slimsid2000
I am not the least interested in this programme. It is exactly the type of show that I tend to avoid. i agree its a load of rubbish i would rather just sit looking at my goldfish swimming around in its tank

Just read the Guardian article, quite funny in places especially this bit talking about Whatshisface Danan -

He looks like Jude Law crossed with the Crazy Frog

I cant stand progs like that, or big brother, what crap, but people do have different tastes so as they say " you dont have to watch it " how they get away with the cheap smut and the prats that get on the show i will never know or understand why? :loopy:

Originally posted by brooksy
Is it me or is this prog the worst ever in history. what a load of f------ crap.

Yep!:thumbsup: totally agree mate - What a load of f*****g crap!:gag:

I know who a couple of people are on this tv programme but can anyone tell me who they all are and why/what are they famous for?

Liz - Attomic Kitten
Jane - Presenter
Abi - Zoo / Nuts
Rebecca - Having an afair with Becks (PA)
Isabella - Not a clue
Judi - Ex Eastenders (now off the island)


Paul - ex Hollyoaks
Lee - Footballer
Fran - Not too sure but ex fiance of Natasha Attomic Kitten
Duan - Pfft lol
Michael - Ex Eastenders (now off the island)
Callum - Coz of his dad i guess :?

Hope this helps you!?

http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?s=&threadid=42284

Sorry AdamD
but i cannot believe that you would admit to watching such **** who cares who's on the damn show as long as they cut it A.S.A.P.

Mod: Threads merged.

Originally posted by brooksy
Is it me or is this prog the worst ever in history. a load of d list celebs jollying it up in the sun, what a load of f------ crap. thing is you turn over and what u got big brother 6 ?, god help us were all doomed.:help: :help:

It seems that all television is dumbed-down drivel. I have decided to dub it "tabloid TV"!

:)

You should be asking if anyone DOES actually watch it. Come on, anyone here actually watch this program?? Don't be shy, we won't think any less of you.. Honest.
:)

its actually pretty good, arguements n stuff, more gripping than BB..

hehe Sarcasm

Ahhh this thread gives me a little chuckle......I can just imagine all the BB / CLI viewers saying "can you imagine what sort of geek spends all their time on internet message boards chattting about Sheffield?"!!
Takes all sorts.

Please UK, don't send us any more of your reality shows.
They don't improve by makiing American versions of them.
I know its payback for all the inane sitcoms we have sent you over the years but enough already. Let's just declare a truce. Send us the Forsyte Saga, and we'll keep sending you Jerry Springer. Deal?

no deal. give us american soaps and we'll give u eastenders ;)

infact no i take that back, u can just have eastenders.. :P

Originally posted by amhudson119
It seems that all television is dumbed-down drivel. I have decided to dub it "tabloid TV"!
:)

er, I think plenty of people already got there before you with that title ;)