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Post by Three Litre on Aug 2, 2021 19:11:58 GMT
Any events which you are think are poorly scheduled.
On Channel 5 tonight, Monday, at 9pm there is another of those baliffs recovering bad debts programmes.
Is this the time to be showing that? I'm lucky, busy at work and in a good job but plenty have been financially hit over the last 18 months and in a poor state.
Seems a bit insensitive to me even if the people they show are numpties.
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Post by Cartman on Aug 2, 2021 19:50:39 GMT
Disgusting, exploitative trash TV of the worst imaginable kind.
I was out of work for 18 months and it is so easy to get into arrears with things.
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Post by Nightfly on Aug 3, 2021 7:36:51 GMT
Totally agree Three Litre and Cartman. If I see the Benefits Britain, Can't Pay, Take it Away type shows in the listings, it's an instant ignore for me. Cheap television exploiting the vulnerable and a genre of programming that Channel 5 seem to excel in (and that's not a compliment).
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Post by Three Litre on Aug 3, 2021 8:06:05 GMT
I confess I did watch some of that Can't Pay when it first came out some years ago but after a while realised it was just wrong. As Carty says some people do just fall on bad times, they are not all thieves.
Also one of guys on that programme was associated with a child killer I seem to remember.
I was surprised when a different version of the theme can on the TV as I read a while back there were privacy issues with the format.
Anyway, there are better documentaries to watch than this exploitative stuff.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Aug 4, 2021 23:02:03 GMT
My mum watches an afternoon BBC show called 'Escape To The Country' a lot, a show where people with £600,000 burning a hole in their pocket go house hunting. Makes me feel sad her watching it as I imagine she's thinking 'I wish I lived there instead of here'. No idea why anyone would want to watch other people buy a better house than theirs. I think of all the people living in crappy houses watching this & wonder where the BBC's heads are at showing shows like this when probably most people watching it could never afford to live like that.
I used to watch 'Can't Pay We'll Take It Away' & whilst I agree it is a dubious show, the bailiffs on it mostly came across as decent & understanding people. Years ago a bailiff came round to our house regarding poll tax, my parents were out so I had to deal with him, I felt sorry for him as he got me to list various goods in the house like the washer whilst he totted up how much they were worth. There may be some bailiffs who take a sadistic pleasure in their work but I doubt most are like that. Not a job I'd want to do.
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Post by Three Litre on Aug 5, 2021 6:15:54 GMT
One thing I find plain wrong is if you have someone staying in your house and the bailiffs come for them you have to prove you own your stuff to stop them taking it away. Who has receipts for everything, it seems iniquitous that they can do that.
Court appointed bailiffs have credibility but not the private ones, IMO.
I’d rather watch a programme where someone tries to get Google. Apple and Amazon to pay proper taxes which is millions.
If we all got paid Ireland or through some pretend loan schemes where would be.
Reminds me of the scene in Sweeney! where Jack compares the wages heist with an accountant fiddling some toffs tax.
“It’s all wrong my son”!
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Post by Cartman on Aug 5, 2021 6:54:35 GMT
Agree. Personally I don't think private firms should be allowed to do this work at all, they will be on commission and will be motivated by his much they can collect.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Aug 5, 2021 16:18:11 GMT
I don't think these kind of personal matters should be recorded & broadcast for entertainment regardless of consent. 'GP's Behind Closed Doors' is the worst I think, surely what takes place between doctor & patient should remain confidential in all circumstances. The problem with consent is that people often don't consider the consequences of what they've consented to until after the event. You often hear participants in tv shows saying they wish they hadn't done it or it had a negative impact that they hadn't foreseen.
The problem with using members of the public for entertainment is that their right to complain after the event is likely to cost them in some way, whilst a production company can just walk away from it.
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