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Mr. Potter
Professor
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It's the worse thing in television's history.
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Bushmeister
Professor
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Reality TV = Awful
Especially here in the UK, where every time when we have a new bloody Big Brother or something like that entire schedules get moved around it and everyone is talking about the blummin' show in the media even though its awful. The worst thing is when you have the most annoying people from the shows trying to be "celebrities".
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newhook_1
Urban Legend
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« Reply #16 on: 12-03-2003 16:39 »
« Last Edit on: 12-03-2003 16:39 »
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Originally posted by Evil Fox Exec: Only stupid idiots watch reality TV. Since that reality show crap is so popular, that means that most people in this country (the USA) are stupid idiots.
Heh, I like that logic, stupid middle america. My biggest beef with so called "Reality TV" is the fact that it isn't even reality. "Oh look we're putting 7 people on an island and forcing them to eat dog shit, how realistic." People act different on camera so therefore, "reality TV" isn't really reality at all (try saying that 10 times fast). I don't even really care that it's on TV. If stupid people enjoy watching gay people dress up straight guys more power to them. "Viva La Bam" though, is a special case for me. I like skateboarding (watching it, I suck at doing it), I'm a fan of the CKY movies and music, and the premise for the show isn't nearly as mind numbingly stupid as most other reality TV shows(Looks in Fear Factor's direction). So going by that I'm guessing that there might be a few other OK reality TV shows out there, but I'm not willing to sift through layers and layers of crap to find them.
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Beamer
DOOP Secretary
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Right behind my television is a window. If I wanted to see "real life" - then I'd look out that fucking window now, wouldn't I? Television is where I turn for entertainment... well, at least I TRY turning to it for entertainment anyway.
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Evil Fox Exec
Bending Unit
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Originally posted by SpacemanSpiff: hmm... i thought in germany, season 1 of big brother aired before "wer wird millionär?" (who's going to be a millionaire, or whatever the correct name is). and that one started the quiz show hype over here. but maybe i'm wrong. i don't really watch that much tv and i have a really bad memory.
Well, I wouldn't count on what happens in Germany to apply what happened here in the US. Stuff in Germany, or Europe in general imported from the US typically takes months, or even a full year before it airs. Could be that Big Brother reached Germany before Wer Wird Millionär was made. At least that's what I'm guessing. Anyway, talk about reality shows in Germany, I got affected negatively by those as well. In April or May 2002, ProSieben was showing this dumbass reality show everyday at 18:00 for a month or so. 18:00 Saturdays happened also to be the time that Futurama aired. That was my first taste of pre-emption. It was really frustrating for me, because I had just begun watching Futurama, and they cut season three right after Parasites Lost aired in April (I think), and they didn't air the next episode, Amazon Women in the Mood, until June 1. Futurama is abused by reality TV not just in the USA .
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SpacemanSpiff
Space Pope
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Originally posted by Evil Fox Exec: Well, I wouldn't count on what happens in Germany to apply what happened here in the US. Stuff in Germany, or Europe in general imported from the US typically takes months, or even a full year before it airs. Could be that Big Brother reached Germany before Wer Wird Millionär was made. At least that's what I'm guessing. that's likely. big brother is originally from the netherlands, so i guess it was easier for them to export it to germany than it was to export to the us. Anyway, talk about reality shows in Germany, I got affected negatively by those as well. In April or May 2002, ProSieben was showing this dumbass reality show everyday at 18:00 for a month or so. 18:00 Saturdays happened also to be the time that Futurama aired. That was my first taste of pre-emption. It was really frustrating for me, because I had just begun watching Futurama, and they cut season three right after Parasites Lost aired in April (I think), and they didn't air the next episode, Amazon Women in the Mood, until June 1. Futurama is abused by reality TV not just in the USA . yeah, prosieben sucks. they didn't even bother to air season 4 of futurama and instead focus on even suckier reality tv shows. and we also get two eps of the simpsons everyday - too bad it's about 50th rerun of every episode.
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Otis P Jivefunk
DOOP Secretary
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I think Reality shows suck big time! Cheap crappy boring programs, that mindless idiots can relate to, because they're watching other mindless idiots doing mindless things.
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Juliet
DOOP Secretary
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Hey to all you sky users don’t forget that There’s Something about Miriam. Now I wanted to watch it after there was a everybody been talking about on this thread
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Tweek
UberMod
DOOP Secretary
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Originally posted by Otis P Jivefunk: That's reality for you... Indeed, no doubt the proles will watch it in their millions.
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Dr. Morberg
Professor
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Most reality is crap. It seems that networks (looks at fox) are mistreating their great shows for the most "original" reality shows they can think of. I mean, why would anyone want to watch "The Littlest Groom" or "My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiance"? (well clearly they do, looking at ratings) Dating shows never work out, the people on there are just there for thier fifteen minutes. The only reality shows I like are Survivor, American Idol, and Fear Factor. I don't go out of my way to watch them, though. When they're on I watch them but otherwise i don't. networks are going to run out of ideas in the next few years and reality TV is going to die out.
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Dr. Morberg
Professor
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Originally posted by aslate: That never stopped them before. Haven't you noticed that they're on [in the UK] Big Brother 4 or 5, Pop Idol 3? etc. All they need to do is add one to the previous number and bam, whole new series! I wonder what happens when they pass 10? Start counting on their toes?
Maybe I'm giving too much credit to people, but I would think that after 6 or 7 of a show, people would be able to figure out the "shocking twists" and get bored. They would have to make it far more interesting, like "Real World: The Sun", or "Survivor: Deep Space".
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Juliet
DOOP Secretary
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Ok here is a review for this weeks There’s Something about Miriam: Six guys been chosen for this dateing game show to see if they can win 10 Grand and a date with Miriam in a very holiday somewhere. Now they don’t know that Miriam is really a transexaul. This show is a bit like The Vila. There are a few things that I didn’t about this week show. The first thing is where the boys get to know each other on the first night. They won’t meet Miriam till the second night. They were sitting around the table getting drunk. One of the guys burst out about his sexual experience with one of his male friend. He said something about his friend was giving him a blowjob in front of everybody at a nightclub. I said to myself why did he say that? Maybe he was lying. Then a few hours later they all striped naked and prance around butt naked. Now that got me thinking that maybe they gay or something The second day they have to do their first task. They have to swim to Miriam who is in a boat and to give her a kiss. Well when the first guy got to her he gave her a snog (full kissing). I sort of thing that this is cruel for the guys because they don’t really know that she a man. I have seen little clips where some men has gone a bit further with her when it comes to snogging and they are going to get a really big shock when they find out about her. I guess you guys would like to call it entertainment. But now I just not so sure. I think this show is like trying to make those guys gay and changing their sexuality. ------------------ My Photos And Arts Site
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Czescku
Crustacean
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Most reality TV is really crap as has been said already. What I really hate is that they're making Finnish versions of them. The American ones are usually bad enough but the ones made here are even worse. I couldn't even watch Joe Millionaire but the Finnish version is even worse. The "Joe" speaks a horrible slang and the girls are very average and really dumb. The first night most girls got drunk and in the second episode they were speaking about "taking it dry in number two". You can see the competitors in the Finnish site http://www.seiska.fi/miljonaarijussi/ by clicking the "KILPAILIJAT" link. I actually followed the Survivor when it was first shown here (they started by showing the second survivor). Last summer they filmed a Finnish version of that. Actually the Finnish version is based more on the original Swedish program than the American (it's a Swedish format in case someone didn't know). They've now shown three episodes of the Finnish Survivor but I stopped watching half way through the first one. It's so damn boring. The American version is much better. The Finnish Idols was actually quite good. I couldn't watch the first auditions as most people shown on TV were so horrible. But it got better and the final was one of the most watched programs on Finnish TV for a long time. The winner happened to be from my little town (I naturally voted for her) and as she brought a lot of positive publicity for this town, she got a medal from the town (plus some money). The others I like to watch sometimes are the FearFactor and the Amazing Race but all the others are usually so bad I have to change the channel immediately.
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