Wednesday, January 28, 2004 |
Who's ready for some Reality TV?
The last week in January consistently brings us a number of things every year.
The most notable of these harbingers of the new year are; a hang over from Australia Day celebrations, the clogging of our public transport system with school kids whose bags seem to grow larger and more difficult to navigate every year and lastly the return of the ratings period on television.
There maybe light at the end of the tunnel however. Whilst this barrage of crap may be a little difficult to swallow for the moment, I would predict that by the time we have endured this attack, Reality TV will have been so flogged to death and have such a bad name that it will be a long, long time before we see anything like them again.
Well we can hope anyway.
The last week in January consistently brings us a number of things every year.
The most notable of these harbingers of the new year are; a hang over from Australia Day celebrations, the clogging of our public transport system with school kids whose bags seem to grow larger and more difficult to navigate every year and lastly the return of the ratings period on television.
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The difference in this year's crop of new programs is a startling similarity in almost every single new show billed to start this February. It would seem that almost every show coming out this year is going to be a "Reality" show.
In fact it seems that there will be more "Reality Television" than you can poke a Neilson ratings box at. Almost as if some sort of script writers union has announced a season long strike. If my memory serves me correctly, the line up of these cheap, scriptless and actorless programs will include; |
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There maybe light at the end of the tunnel however. Whilst this barrage of crap may be a little difficult to swallow for the moment, I would predict that by the time we have endured this attack, Reality TV will have been so flogged to death and have such a bad name that it will be a long, long time before we see anything like them again.
Well we can hope anyway.
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