I am a celebrity get me out of here

[DodgyAgent]

Pretty much WHS although I never watch these "reality" shows.

I despise the cult of Celebrity that's sprung up where people are famous for having attended the opening of an envelope think they're something special and their view is validated by airtime as they make utter pillocks of themselves in an absurd situation or location.

The only way any of these X Factor/ Big Brother/ I'm a Celebrity type programmes would be watchable would be to add random mines/grenades/napalm strikes/ninja attacks at irregular but frequent intervals.

I would agree with regards to Big Brother, but the X factor has genuine talent on it. Also anything that reveals the true personality make up of celebrities is fascinating. Strictly come dancing is also good in that it exposes personalities behind people who have achieved at very high levels of their professions, and it shows how adaptable these people are to other environments.

[Bagpuss]

Ben Elton love or loathe him predicted the ultimate destination of these programs was celebrity death or murder. I think we may have already had the former.

[d000hg]

I don't normally know who any of them are, but Kilroy is well-known and watching someone like that is an education. My mental picture of several CUK members is a little like him.

Also, Mr. Sulu... that's kind of cool.

[EternalOptimist]

I watched it last night because the missus told me that a lesbian tennis star was going to eat In sex.

What a disapointment to discover that she will be only eating a kangaroos hairy anus instead. Boo hiss, bbc or whoever

[TimberWolf]

This is the only reality show I really like. I don't watch the x-fucther/cum dancing, etc. Agreed about Kilroy, he's hardly said anything but is looking potentially obnoxious. Navratilova may surprise - I saw her on some other show some time back and she was a real gent (losing gracefully to an amateur). Woohoo!

[TykeMerc]

I would agree with regards to Big Brother, but the X factor has genuine talent on it. Also anything that reveals the true personality make up of celebrities is fascinating. Strictly come dancing is also good in that it exposes personalities behind people who have achieved at very high levels of their professions, and it shows how adaptable these people are to other environments.

I couldn't care less about the personalities of these nobodies who're supposedly famous for some trivia or other that gets them onto trash TV.
These programmes are the mindless muzac of the TV world, they cost next to bog all to produce and only entertain the QVC/ soap opera oriented, mindless, cretinous lowest common denominator of British society.

Do you get the impression that I'm not a big fan of this kind of TV?

[Peoplesoft bloke]

I would agree with regards to Big Brother, but the X factor has genuine talent on it. Also anything that reveals the true personality make up of celebrities is fascinating. Strictly come dancing is also good in that it exposes personalities behind people who have achieved at very high levels of their professions, and it shows how adaptable these people are to other environments.

That's all fair comment - I'm just not interested in how adaptable any of these people may be - I don't care. I have a passing interest in the lives of a very small number of authors, musicians and business people, but it is limited to how they grew up and arrived at the point they are at rather than whether they can eat insects or dance the samba.

[DodgyAgent]

That's all fair comment - I'm just not interested in how adaptable any of these people may be - I don't care. I have a passing interest in the lives of a very small number of authors, musicians and business people, but it is limited to how they grew up and arrived at the point they are at rather than whether they can eat insects or dance the samba.

it could be that you are simply a pair of nervous introverts who find the company of others intimidating. You probably lack any interest in trying to understand other people and are only comfortable in a world of virtuality who's only interests are yourselves and what you can achieve on Warcraft.

[TykeMerc]

it could be that you are simply a pair of nervous introverts who find the company of others intimidating. You probably lack any interest in trying to understand other people and are only comfortable in a world of virtuality who's only interests are yourselves and what you can achieve on Warcraft.

Never played Warcraft and I don't get off on watching people humiliate themselves in order to raise their publicity profiles so that they get invited to the next licking of a stamp.

I utterly despise these lowest denominator programmes. They don't provide entertainment, humour, education or information, they're the cheapest possible form of TV programmes that feed entirely off and help to perpetuate the cult of celebrity.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

it could be that you are simply a pair of nervous introverts who find the company of others intimidating. You probably lack any interest in trying to understand other people and are only comfortable in a world of virtuality who's only interests are yourselves and what you can achieve on Warcraft.

Never played Warcraft (or any online game, or Second Life or anything similar in my life). I wonder if your need to characterise me in a particular way simply because I don't enjoy the same telly (or think Thatcher was a genius who saved us all, for another example) says more about you than me. I did start by saying what you said was fair comment - I am not trying to invalidate your choice of telly; no doubt there are things I watch that wouldn't appeal to you. I get a fair amount of ridicule at home for my love of University Challenge.