The State Of Our TV…
June 10th 2010 by admin in 1Who knows where the future of Great British television lies? Leg vein treatment documentaries? Or perhaps Blind Date will make a come back with the ever ginger Cilla bursting back on to our screens? Who knows. I don’t, that’s for sure. I barely watch it and when I do all I seem to be seeing is the same thing over and over–
It’s frightening.
Does anyone else not think what has happened to TV in recent years is a bit strange? Allow me to demonstrate the state of British TV as I see it:
1) Day-time / morning: it used to be chat shows in the morning, now it’s property programmes with young and (perhaps too) eager presenters. And not just ‘how to sell your house’ but ‘how to do up your house’ and even ‘what to do when someone does up your house wrong, allow us to fix it for you!’
2) Simultaneously, playing at exactly the same time as the property programmes, are antique programmes, usually featuring either David Dickinson or people closely resembling him.
3) Day-time / early afternoon: more of the same, with a new kind of programme creeping in–cookery / chat show style programmes and–guess what? Yes! Not antique programmes, oh no, but…wait for it…AUCTION PROGRAMMES. And what a change that makes!
4) And repeat until early evening–
What a state! Where has the variety gone? Surely we could do with some comedy?
Or, dread the thought…maybe this is comedy?!
And who knows when these terrible trends will end and what kind of mentally tortured state we will be in when they do. Only time will tell–