No! Hardly anyone likes ballroom dancing, then suddenly everyone goes mad about it! And I'm sick of all these shows having the "nasty" judge and the "ridiculously generous" judge, it's so tired. And the bloody audience booing every time some **** knacker doesn't get a 10 ffs. Stop the world I'm getting off
The sad thing is that relatively talentless people become actual 'celebrities' by appearing on minor celebrity or reality shows. From the trailers I've seen some of the people on Strictly aren't celebrities in any way or have any actual talent. I don't want to watch people no better than me, I want to be entertained by brilliant people and, as you say, watch programmes that have substance as well as style. As @Guinness Guzzler says most people, who watch these shows, don't actually give a shiny shyte about dancing or cake making ... ... and if half of the acts from X-factor came on at their local they'd complain that they couldn't hear themselves speak for 'that racket'. Yet they'll applaud them to the rafters on TV, standing ovation if their Gran just died!
Like I said before Come Dancing, on a Lazy Sunday was the perfect end to the weekend, what else would you want from a TV. Its wrecked now beyond repair in this world of sound bites ( get Brexit done), a victim of quantity ahead of quality, cheap stuff is just like plastic easy to make, but hard to get rid of, and a blot on the landscape, all round a bit of a do.
Agree 100%. Is there a quiz show on TV that doesn't have a friggin' celebrity version? These shows just exist to keep minor league celebrities in work.
Sometimes after a hard day at graft and running after the bairns I want a bit of escapism and putting something easy to watch on the box. If that means watching a newsreader try to bake a Victoria sponge or a washed up page 3 model get her baps out in the jungle, so be it. Unlike the OP not everyone is an intellectual who wants to watch Portillo travel around the Indian sub continent on a slow train
Great tv shows all of them and all worth a watch when they are repeated but I think they've been bettered this last few years. IMHO Peaky Blinders trumps the lot of them and each series is better than the previous one. Not family viewing I'll admit but it can be extremely violent and very funny in the same scene and the acting, direction and camera work are first class.
I'm not an intellectual mate. I'm all for escapism but it has to be decent quality escapism ... ... Like Harry Houdini Seriously you can't just excuse crap because it's 'for charity' or escapism imo.
And by the way, Gemma Collins, how the **** is she a thing? She's a ****ing talentless knacker and all of a sudden she's on every ****ing show. My missus "loves her". How the **** can you love that utter mess, "famous" seemingly because she was on TOWIE (only watched one episode but **** me it's god awful) and because it's funny because she "says what she thinks" and is "a bit thick". This is seriously what makes people a lot of money nowadays, absolutely ridiculous
Ah yes, the famous 'says what she thinks' as if that means anything. There's a prepensity of people who are proud of being thick and other people admiring them for it. Thank **** I live in a bubble where all this is just a tiny occasional window into Bedlam.
You have watched one more show than me mate so you must be a right wazzzick I only watch quality like Strictly
I avoid them all like the plague.. Along with these so called reality shows that have nothing to do with reality..
Seldom watch TV, I find it annoying, a pointless distraction most of the time, broadcasting away -telling us what to think and feel, imposing on everyone's time. Nowadays, I prefer to sit in a quiet room and read. I also believe I'm becoming a miserable old git
That ****e has ruined TV and I hardly watch it anymore. Simon Cowell and Big Brother together ****ed over TV.
The worrying thing is that they are "Family entertainment" Parents are subjecting their kids to watching this shoite every Saturday evening, so it is getting bred into the next generation God help us
I think it's good parenting tbh ... ... teach your 15 year old daughter to gain approval by flashing her tits, begging people to 'call me' and saying your Gran just died even if she hasn't. Never mind about studying, working hard or honing any talent ... ... just tell Simon Cowell it's your dream and the job's a good un.
