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2 questions about shit TV
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iDaveFree MemberPosted 12 years ago
1. Is there any evidence that the big showbiz type voices used by announcers such as in bullseye, xfactor, circuses, lottery etc actually serve any purpose other than to make you think it’s all utter tosh? is there any evidence that viewers like it?
2. the bloke who presents xfactor, came onto the stage and did some short dance move thing with 2 dancers. why? do people watch that and think it’s good?
obviously i’m middle aged and don’t understand popular culture.
emma82Free MemberPosted 12 years agoIt is completely awful. You are still watching it though so they still win 🙄
iDaveFree MemberPosted 12 years agowell, yeah i don’t watch much, just wondered why they do things like the big voice and silly dances. do people really like it?
fd3chrisFree MemberPosted 12 years agoyou have to remember most of these shows are aimed at young and or retarded viewers 😉
emma82Free MemberPosted 12 years agonot really, gets on my nerves but car crash TV is car crash TV and everything on a Saturday night is awful. Just watched my favorite Queen song butchered by some weirdo with dodgy hair. I’m still watching it though.
yunkiFree MemberPosted 12 years agoI think it’s generally for people to sneer at and moan about.. unless you’re a nan.. in which case anything even remotely vibrant is enough to take your mind off your impending mortality and is therefore ‘lovely’.. or a hormonal adolescent in which case everything remotely glamorous is probably ‘dreamy’ (mildly titillating)
HTH
tonFull MemberPosted 12 years agomost tv is aimed at a certain viewer.
radio 2 is aimed at normal folk tho.maccruiskeenFull MemberPosted 12 years agoQ1 – its self referential (and sometimes its camp self parody) – announcers sound like that because thats what announcers sound like – it’ll have its roots in theatre and music hall when you literally had to shout at the audience. You could announce the next contestant in the manner of Whispering Bob Harris but people expect something a bit more like a town crier
Q2 – dunno
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maccruiskeenFull MemberPosted 12 years agoradio 2 is aimed at normal folk tho.
the kind of normal folk who phone Jeremy Vine?
aracerFree MemberPosted 12 years agoI wouldn’t have a clue what you’re talking about. Your life would probably be a lot better if you didn’t either.
TheArtistFormerlyKnownAsSTRFull MemberPosted 12 years agoI think it’s great – no brain time required, just chill and take it for what it is. If I want culture, I’ll find culture. If I want educating, then I’ll find something to educate me. If I want to switch off on a Saturday night, watching people who are mostly actually quite talented, being paraded on a formatted entertainment show, then I’m quite happy with that.
Get over it, or just don’t watch it.
deadlydarcyFree MemberPosted 12 years agoGet over it, or just don’t watch it.
Indeed, or just be so haughtily above it all.
aka_GiloFree MemberPosted 12 years agoThe females of the house watch such sh!te, I hunch over my laptop and mutter to myself. It’s the only way.
defydudeFree MemberPosted 12 years agoRorschach:
What’s a T.V?
Television.
….hang on. Is this like one of those ink blot tests, where it’s all about the viewers interpretation?….I forget their name.
KevevsFree MemberPosted 12 years agodon’t underestimate the ignorance, stupidity and culpability of your audience as well as your “talent”.
Simon Cowell has said this somewhere, sometime, when he was drunk. Whoever heard him he had shot.
iDaveFree MemberPosted 12 years agoIt’s not about shit programs, it’s about those two aspects. what does a booming voice and bit of a dance add?
bikebouyFree MemberPosted 12 years agoYeah, but erm..ITV, You expect something else?
Anyway E4 now, meet the spartans, crap but I’m delving into a rather good bottle of Spanish Red.
FrankensteinFree MemberPosted 12 years agoTV is poop.
News is depressing.
Movies are fine as well as some sports.
Get out more.
Ride?
Watch your fave programmes but don’t become a couch potato – life is too short as it is!
Smudger666Full MemberPosted 12 years agoThere’s a button. It makes all the bad people stop.
Use it, move on with your life.
projectFree MemberPosted 12 years agoX Factor,
Twilight,
and QIall 3 absolutely waste of time tonight.
But they interupted Click on bbc news channel to say some foreign geezer had resigned, being Welsh i hoped it was Camerooon, but no it was somebody from another bankrupt country plc.
TheSouthernYetiFree MemberPosted 12 years agoDunno.
In other news, I just sat on my roadie and I now have enough movement in my right leg to turn the cranks.
Now to the weather.
Outlook is sunny, with just a mild wind.
Sports… yes I’m going to ride my bike for the first time in a month.
You stay classy, San Diego?
KevevsFree MemberPosted 12 years agoshouty authorative voice gets yer ear attention.
dancing gets yer eyes a jiggling.
It’d be nothing without all the lights though. It’s the lights that make it. look at ’em! loads.
pete68Free MemberPosted 12 years agoJust got in from ride. What’s ” x factor”. Sounds awful so don’t watch it. Been to pub as well, so don’t mind me.
TheSouthernYetiFree MemberPosted 12 years agono hill intervals
Wouldn’t even consider them 🙂
If I can manage anything over 20 miles at anything over 15 mph avg I’ll be a happy boy… a very happy boy.
markenduroFree MemberPosted 12 years agoThe simple answer is not to watch anything which pretends to be reality tv, televised karaoke, televised dancing or televised anything else which is shite.
druidhFree MemberPosted 12 years ago“I don’t like it, so it’s shit”. STW has spoken.
God, you’re all so far up your own arses it a wonder you can reach the keyboard.
CountZeroFull MemberPosted 12 years agoI only have the vaguest notion of what you’re on about. I don’t like most ‘Family Entertainment’ Saturday evening TV, so I refuse to watch it. In fact, Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings are spent listening to music and reading, before going out to the pub on Friday and Saturday. Anything I might be interested is time shifted via the Sky box for other evenings. I’m discriminating about what I watch, so I have no need to bitch about what crap is on the telly. I respectfully suggest you do the same, instead of whining about it.
fourbangerFree MemberPosted 12 years agoIs your other half habitually watching this junk grounds for breaking up?
zippykonaFull MemberPosted 12 years agoI have never seen any of the programmes you are talking about but I can safely assume they are a load of old shirt.
Ladies love this crap and don’t appreciate men huffing and puffing through it.
Sounds like the perfect time to go for a ride or down the pub.
( New rant) My nearest pub has a telly and shows the news with the sound off. Unless its sport NO TELLY IN PUBS EVER.bikebouyFree MemberPosted 12 years agoI used to love Sat Eve TV.. Crinkly Bottom and all that, but then Pant & Donk came on and it went sideways from there on in. But I’ll admit it’s hard watching on Sat Eves… I used to like that Robin Hood thingy, and deffo Merlin, but sadly thats all there is. Never a fan of Dr Who eithers.. So now we spend that time waiting for Merlin cooking and listening to funky tunes maaaaan.
chakapingFree MemberPosted 12 years agoI don’t think you’ve really come to this with an open mind, have you iDave?
When you take your kids to the panto do you refuse to join in shouting “he’s behind you!” because they obviously know it anyway?
freddygFree MemberPosted 12 years ago….. and Bruce Forsyth. Don’t get me started. For some reason, he is revered on the telly by his peers. I just don’t get it; its cringe-inducing.
Saturday evening telly was ruined when they stopped broadcasting The Muppet Show.
CharlieMungusFree MemberPosted 12 years agoA question for those who slate X-factor, strictly come dancing, i ‘m a celebrity, etc. What kind of tv would you like more of instead?
ElfinsafetyFree MemberPosted 12 years agoSee, all this stuff has bin carefully thought out and planned right down to the smallest detail. Soaps, gameshows, ‘reality’ shows, talent contests, the news, etc etc etc. Billions are spent on researching the best way to gain audiences, get bigger viewing figures, have a bigger slice of the pie. Entire careers hinge on the success of some crappy mind-numbing dross. All sorts of people, from psychologists to psy, psi, Simon Cowell are employed in a massive industry to churn out what the public ‘wants’.
People with ‘useless’ Media Studies degrees sit behind the scenes, plotting the next attention grabbing show. All sorts of ‘control groups’ and test audiences are used, to determine which techniques work best. People are hooked up to machines which test responses, heart-rates, sweatiness, brain activity. It’s a proper science.
Ultimately it’s about satisfying a sense of ‘need’ in the individual; giving them something they can trust, believe in, feel they are part of, somehow. How many condversations at work etc are about telly shows?
TV’s a huge part of our lives, like it or not. If you watch it, you are involved in the whole spectacle.
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yunkiFree MemberPosted 12 years agoSTW- Ultimately it’s about satisfying a sense of ‘need’ in the individual; giving them something they can trust, believe in, feel they are part of, somehow.
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