Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Turk]

Saw a short 10 minute programme last night called "Tearjerkers" (The "crying" game) or something like that.
The object of the game was to set a "best friend" up and get them to cry.
If they cry, money was won.  :-?

They set up a seige situation in a house, with blue and white police tape around the front and police like uniformed personel waiting outside for the homeowner whose "friend" was holed up inside.
As the homeowner friend arrived, the "police" explained that there was a situation and that the owner could not go into the house.
Next, the woman inside is opening the window and yelling "You know what you've done...how could you ? 

The home owner is stunned and has no idea what it is all about, the "police" hand her a loud hailer to speak with the woman inside...and so it continues, until the homeowner breaks down and cries in frustration and confusion.
Next thing her "mate" comes out all smiling and happy, closely followed by the camera crew to explain what it's all about.

I don't know if I've explained it well enough, or whether someone else saw it and can explain it better, but personally I could not believe what I was seeing.
How low will programme producers stoop and what sort of a friend would do that anyway ?

[The Barge Captain]

And I used to think Jeremy Beadle was a tw#t

[Turk]

This was much worse than anything Beadle got up to. There was no comedy element in this at all. The object was to get the unsuspecting person to cry. The woman was quite distressed, screaming at her "friend" inside to get out of her house (She'd apparently let her stay with her for a few days).   
You had to see it to appreaciate how cruel it was.

[Dishevelled Den]

What worries me Turk is the fact that the producers think that there's an audience for this tripe.

Considering the state of the Nation and of the many breakless and empty-headed idiots running about in it, I've come to the sad conclusion that they're right.

[Turk]

You're not wrong there matey !

[Entwood]

How can anything you describe even be thought of as entertainment Now I know why I hardly watch any TV these days.

[Nickbat]

True. Entertainment is certainly going down the pan. Mind you, for perspective, the Romans got their kicks from seeing people munched by lions.

Perhaps the path of civilisation is just one big circle... :-/

[Dishevelled Den]

Romans knew how to party all the same 8-) 8-)

[amigov6]

Sadly this just goes to show the mentality (or lack of) of the viewing public. Such dross would'nt be made if there were'nt brain dead people watching it. I hardly watch any telly. When the box in the alcove finally gives out i'm not going to replace it. It'll go to the tip & a nice cabinet or bookcase will take it's place. I'll still have a freeview in my bedroom if i want to watch something but i've never been one to put the telly on every night as soon as i get home & leave it on til i go to bed.....How sad is that?

[Debs.]

I fear that there are considerably 'deeper' depths yet to plumb!

Taste and decency appear to be lost concepts both in the media and on the street; televised battles to the death in Romanesque arena aren`t really that far away.

[Jimbob]

any crap idea to make cheap telly progs, and bump up the non repeat figures 

[TheBoy]

Trouble is, there is an audience. The same kind of audience who like Big Brother and X Factor type trash.

You only need to walk down Bletchley high street (nr where I work) to know the type - peroxide blondes, 17yrs old, 3 kids all called Chardonnay but different surnames effing and blinding at why the judges kicked off the wrong tramp

[STMO999]

I'm guessing that this was an American import?


Homeowner will no doubt sue the show's producers for $1,000,000.

[Chris_H]

I wouldn't put it past the Japanese to do that sort of programming.

[Dishevelled Den]

Trouble is, there is an audience. The same kind of audience who like Big Brother and X Factor type trash.

You only need to walk down Bletchley high street (nr where I work) to know the type - peroxide blondes, 17yrs old, 3 kids all called Chardonnay but different surnames effing and blinding at why the judges kicked off the wrong tramp

.......and the future hope of this country

What has been sown in the last 20 or so years will produce a stunted crop.

Set aside the financial mess we are wading through at the moment, the fact that the scene so described is no longer the exception means that we're effectively finished and need to start again from the ground up.