Friday, August 19, 2005
The BBC gets the All Time Trash Prize
I saw a trailer on BBC TV that made me recoil in complete horror - it was advertising a programme on expecting fathers, yes, fathers expecting a baby. Most of the guys advertised hardly looked endearing, they were fat, shaven-headed, beery bellied gits. It seems that the programme will take us through the trials, tribulations and traumas of said blokes expecting their first shit machine. Who fucking cares? How can anybody waste their time on such shit?
I remember when I was a kid and used to watch comedies such as Are You Being Served, Steptoe and Son, Dad's Army etc. It was great fun. People actually got to work, writing scripts, producing and directing. All the Beeb seems to pay a company to point at some fat indolent git (paying him a shedload of cash) and expect people to be entertained.
The BBC needs to know that there are sixty sentient beings in the UK, they like to be entertained and entertainment, let's face it, involves some intellectual work - critical faculties come into play.
All this kind of trashy programme involves is switch on the telly and watch.
It's complete bollocks.
I remember when I was a kid and used to watch comedies such as Are You Being Served, Steptoe and Son, Dad's Army etc. It was great fun. People actually got to work, writing scripts, producing and directing. All the Beeb seems to pay a company to point at some fat indolent git (paying him a shedload of cash) and expect people to be entertained.
The BBC needs to know that there are sixty sentient beings in the UK, they like to be entertained and entertainment, let's face it, involves some intellectual work - critical faculties come into play.
All this kind of trashy programme involves is switch on the telly and watch.
It's complete bollocks.
