The Problem of CHAV TV
I don't watch a great deal of TV, but if I want to talk to Ros, it's a necessity. Over the years I thought that I had witnessed the worst that the medium could do. I was wrong.
For UK viewers the excruciating 'How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria' has scored a telly first. This is the show that has managed to make even Graham Norton look embarrassed. The quest of the show, under the eagle-eyed scrutiny of Andrew Lloyd Webber, is to find a star to assume the mantle of Julie Andrews in his forthcoming stage production of The Sound Of Music. Norton actually says: "Tune in next week to see another girl's dreams shattered!" as the poor schmuck who has just been voted off trots back to join her rivals in a rousing chorus of So Long, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, Goodbye. How's that for a sadistic twist? And the fat slug Webber sits on a throne and dispenses brutal verdicts on each girl's performance. Oh that one of them would walk over and punch him in the mouth.
And the BBC has been suckered into giving his show such massive pre-publicity when, allegedly, he already has a 'professional' Maria lined up and waiting to sing the role. This is the worst kind of exploitative TV show. And it shall continue for a further seven weeks...
But Problem Like Maria is not the worst of CHAV TV. Selina Scott called the show Big Brother 'a cruel exploitation of social inadequates who will do anything to be famous'.
Our TV now mirrors the clips from Japanese TV that used to be aired showing a society so morally and culturally alien that it could show people being humiliated and call it prime-time entertainment.
What goes around comes around....
I want a substantial refund on my TV licence.
For UK viewers the excruciating 'How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria' has scored a telly first. This is the show that has managed to make even Graham Norton look embarrassed. The quest of the show, under the eagle-eyed scrutiny of Andrew Lloyd Webber, is to find a star to assume the mantle of Julie Andrews in his forthcoming stage production of The Sound Of Music. Norton actually says: "Tune in next week to see another girl's dreams shattered!" as the poor schmuck who has just been voted off trots back to join her rivals in a rousing chorus of So Long, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, Goodbye. How's that for a sadistic twist? And the fat slug Webber sits on a throne and dispenses brutal verdicts on each girl's performance. Oh that one of them would walk over and punch him in the mouth.
And the BBC has been suckered into giving his show such massive pre-publicity when, allegedly, he already has a 'professional' Maria lined up and waiting to sing the role. This is the worst kind of exploitative TV show. And it shall continue for a further seven weeks...
But Problem Like Maria is not the worst of CHAV TV. Selina Scott called the show Big Brother 'a cruel exploitation of social inadequates who will do anything to be famous'.
Our TV now mirrors the clips from Japanese TV that used to be aired showing a society so morally and culturally alien that it could show people being humiliated and call it prime-time entertainment.
What goes around comes around....
I want a substantial refund on my TV licence.