More reality TV stupidity!

[scaPer boi]

As well as the regurgitated american reality tv crap, here in Australia we have our own little slice of reality pie called big brother, the premise of the show is you stick a bunch of celebrity wannabes in a house with video cameras covering their every move and let viewers vote off whichever moron they despise the least each week until the last contestant wins.
Recently a contestant called Carlo got kicked out of the house for urinating in the garden (it gets worse) and then WASHING HIS GENITALS IN THE SINK!
:shocked: :hork:
The amazing thing is, he said he is now going into stand up comedy!! I've got some sad news for you buddy, yes everyone is laughing at you but it's not because you're funny! :help: :cry2:

[RobinC]

Sounds like a show we had called Big Brother (same exact premise). Haven't seen it in awhile, though, so I'm hoping that means it's dead. Sorry to hear the concept surfaced in Australia!

Robin

[jadeshand]

yeah, we had that trash too - no longer graces our tv, thank god. You have my deepest sympathy that that left our shores and landed on yours. :(

[grapeshot]

I thought the show concept originated in the UK?

[Stargate2077]

I believe it did, grapeshot, along with the entire concept of reality tv. Hasn't reality tv been in the UK for a decade or two?

[MediaSavant]

Big Brother hit big in Europe before it hit U.S. shores. I believe the Dutch started it. In fact, it hasn't been as big in the U.S. as other countries.

There will be another version of the series in the U.S. this summer on CBS.

What is this topic doing under "Campaign Strategizing", though?

[Stargate2077]

I think this is a job for the MODERATORS! Time for this thread to be moved to the correct place.

[Deanna T]

Living in Australia is like living in a timewarp. When America or the UK catches on to some big money making idea like BB, Australia will catch on at least 2 years later, when America and the UK are sick of it.

Report is that this season's ratings of BB here are not as high as the previous two, so hopefully the fad is dwindling, but unfortunately I think we'll see at least 2 more seasons of that garbage before it's out the door.

My favourite stupidity to recently hit our airwaves is "Surprise Wedding", where women lure their partners into the TV studio unawares, then propose and expect them to marry on the spot, in front of the nation. And then, if the guy refuses (God knows I would if I was lured into this wedding trap), he's booo'ed off by the audience, like he's some kind of horrible monster.

The fact is that Australian TV is bad. Farscape is good and some comedy is good and the rest is just bad. "Australian Idol" is coming soon. Thank god I just got cable.

[Mike@Pilots Chamber]

I think we've just started our fourth series of Big Brother here in the UK, not counting other things such as Celebrity Big Brother.

It's odd though - Big Brother is really popular here in the UK, but not in the US (from what I've heard). Yet Survivor is really popular in the US but bombed here (UK).

*sigh* I want them to bring back The Mole. Now that was great - not really reality TV, more of a game show, but it ruled.

At least it's better than the instantly forgettable "I'm A Celebrity - Get Me Out Of Here" that ITV now seems intent on farming.

[Silent_Cid]

I live everyday in reality it is enough to watch it on tv. I want to escape reality thats why I watch sci fi.

[grapeshot]

What is this topic doing under "Campaign Strategizing", though?


It's in the EXACT place that I would expect to find it: In the News - Network News.

I don't think this is "off topic" here, and I can't think where else it might fit. (Not in "OT in the UT" I hope, since I no longer read that one.)

[grinner]

Originally posted by grapeshot
It's in the EXACT place that I would expect to find it: In the News - Network News.

I don't think this is "off topic" here, and I can't think where else it might fit. (Not in "OT in the UT" I hope, since I no longer read that one.) Why not?