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Post by Sparky on May 15, 2019 13:01:02 GMT
The Jeremy Kyle show, at last this utter trash has been axed. How anyone could watch this appalling spectacle is beyond me, people's lives being pulled apart for the entertainment of morons. Couldn't have put it better.
There are Morons who will stick up for the show, saying that it helped people....
Such morons forget that the show was a Television Programme, produced purely for Entertainment, and at the same time Selling Advertising Air Time at premium rate. Most only tuned in to watch the arguing anyway.
If anything; it achieved one thing - it showed a snapshot of a certain section of society in this country - and made the rest of us sit thinking "Do people like this really exist... or it it all scripted"....
I wonder what gems ITV will plug the hole with?
As for Mr Kyle - he'll be picked up by another broadcaster with less scruples than ITV and another similar format show will be bestowed on Viewers once again.
Good riddance...
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Post by Cartman on May 15, 2019 17:52:09 GMT
Kyle used to have a radio programme on commercial radio a few years back, called Jezzas confessions and it was along similar lines to the TV programme, a bit less focus on arguments, but more salacious. Any girl callers used to get quizzed on their sex lives and it was, I thought, a bit creepy and pervy.
As for this TV trash, apparently, in the 18th and early 19th centuries, you could go and pay a halfpenny or whatever, and walk round the local lunatic asylum or mental hospital and laugh at the unfortunate inmates. There is NO difference at all between this and Kyle's disgrace of a programme. He deserves to sink into obscurity
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Post by Three Litre on May 15, 2019 19:52:51 GMT
Kyle used to have a radio programme on commercial radio a few years back, called Jezzas confessions and it was along similar lines to the TV programme, a bit less focus on arguments, but more salacious. Any girl callers used to get quizzed on their sex lives and it was, I thought, a bit creepy and pervy. As for this TV trash, apparently, in the 18th and early 19th centuries, you could go and pay a halfpenny or whatever, and walk round the local lunatic asylum or mental hospital and laugh at the unfortunate inmates. There is NO difference at all between this and Kyle's disgrace of a programme. He deserves to sink into obscurity I think you can do that for free in the House of Commons public gallery now.
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Post by Sparky on May 16, 2019 6:26:13 GMT
Kyle used to have a radio programme on commercial radio a few years back, called Jezzas confessions and it was along similar lines to the TV programme, a bit less focus on arguments, but more salacious. Any girl callers used to get quizzed on their sex lives and it was, I thought, a bit creepy and pervy. As for this TV trash, apparently, in the 18th and early 19th centuries, you could go and pay a halfpenny or whatever, and walk round the local lunatic asylum or mental hospital and laugh at the unfortunate inmates. There is NO difference at all between this and Kyle's disgrace of a programme. He deserves to sink into obscurity I heard he had once presented a Radio Programme - what station was this on?
Indeed; the Victorians used to charge for people to walk around the local Asylum and be "entertained" by the patients. Hard to imagine this happened here in the UK - and in a time more recent that you would think.
As for the "Kyle Show" it did do a similar thing; though made millions for ITV in the way of advertising revenue - both through ITV1 and then the repeats on ITV2 (just in case you didn't get enough first time round).
We had morning shows such as "Kilroy" in the late 80s on the BBC; and then "Trisha" on ITV - I felt they covered subjects with a more in depth approach - intelligent conversation (as tedious as it may have been) but at least, kind of paletable - then along comes "Kyle" with his bang crash wallop show (obviously based on the US Jerry Springer - which I think was responsible for starting it all in the first place.....)
I was wondering when the "Reality TV" bubble would burst - I don't think we are that far off!
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Post by Cartman on May 16, 2019 8:32:27 GMT
It was on Century FM, probably early 2000s. The reality TV bubble is long overdue to burst, I remember reading an extract from a book by Chuck Pahlanuick which satirised it and, in the book, a group of people were conned into thinking they were in some kind of Big Brother (more room 101 material) type programme and the way to win was to do something more outrageous than everyone else, so one of the contestants shot himself, thinking that couldn't be beaten.
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Post by Sparky on May 16, 2019 10:20:18 GMT
Reality TV is another Room 101 topic on it's own.
I might be a bit of an old fuddy duddy; though in particular with ITV - their whole programme schedule rotates around Emmerdale and Coronation St - and if you are lucky, a bit of news thrown in.
Back in 1972; the ITA (that later became the IBA) who oversaw ITV - were given permission by the government to lift restrictions on broadcasting hours. If you remember - up until then - TV came on air during the late afternoon / early evening.
The only broadcasting allowed during the daytime was trade test transmissions (Test-Card / Engineering stuff) and Programmes for Schools & Colleges - (which didn't add into the broadcasters total hours quota).
Once these restrictions were lifted; TV companies had to find more programmes to fill the gaps - on ITV, we had Crown Court, Emmerdale Farm (as it was then known), Country Matters, Mrs & Mrs, and various regional opt-outs - on ATV it was "Gardening Today" twice a week.
I felt that this worked well for years - as there wasn't "too much" TV - or even airspace to fill.
Come the late 1990s and mainly 2000s -the advent of multiple channels, broadcasting all day - it gave us tons of channels, lots of hours to fill - and not enough programmes to fill them.
So - the cheap way to fill this, is cheaply produced "Reality TV" or even constant repeats.
Programmes such as "Kyle" - are pretty cheap to churn out en masse; as they use studio space (which would otherwise be empty); crewed by permanently employed staff that's on a salaried payroll. Those that appear on these shows, will have their Hotel/Travel expenses paid.
At the same time - ITV can reap in profits from Sponsorship and Advertising with very little overheads.
Secondly - Producers these days seem very narrow minded and like to centre their attention on what is popular on US TV....
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Post by Cartman on May 20, 2019 9:51:32 GMT
The Euro vision song contest. It's one of those things which, years ago, I didn't mind, a bit like coronation Street, but now it's terrible. Britain's entry, apparently ,came last. What is the point of it anymore? Blatant political voting renders it meaningless and I think its time we gave up on it.
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Post by Sparky on May 20, 2019 11:05:54 GMT
The Euro vision song contest. It's one of those things which, years ago, I didn't mind, a bit like coronation Street, but now it's terrible. Britain's entry, apparently ,came last. What is the point of it anymore? Blatant political voting renders it meaningless and I think its time we gave up on it. Yes - totally agree. Didn't mind watching it (Like Coronation St!).
Though not watched it for years and years; it's got too political and I am often led to feel that we are only really wanted in it for money reasons.
Mind you - shouldn't they re-brand it to "Political Song Contest"?
Just a question - how come Australia are taking part? I was never good at Geography at School - I gather Australia isn't part of Europe.
So - if Brexit happens (sorry, I had to mention it) - will we also come out of Eurovision - or am I being too optimistic?
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Post by Three Litre on May 20, 2019 19:03:39 GMT
The Euro vision song contest. It's one of those things which, years ago, I didn't mind, a bit like coronation Street, but now it's terrible. Britain's entry, apparently ,came last. What is the point of it anymore? Blatant political voting renders it meaningless and I think its time we gave up on it. Have to admit I quite like although its not as entertaining as it used to be. It was better and funnier when more of the songs were in local languages and not english. It is still biased but not as bad as it used to be. However it never fails to amaze me that we put up the blandest of songs and performers.
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Post by Three Litre on May 25, 2019 20:52:54 GMT
Keith effing Lemon
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