Friday 11 January 2013

Corrosively trenchant television

It is not controversial to state that good television is mostly dead.  It has evaporated and dried up. The biggest audiences for television programmes in our celebrity crazed society are ones with decayed acting, bad script writing and low production.  The fiendish format is called Reality TV and producers love it because it is copiously costless.  It’s a cringe-worthy cocktail of automated cameras and reckless rabble compounded with weeks of fraudulent phone-in voting.  You cannot escape drowning in the tidal wave of shit since it's smeared on every television channel and submerges all newsfeeds.  The only thoughtful element of these shows is product placement on stage for corporate advertising.  

Most of these shows appeal to the apish impulses: the vapid voyeurism, the seedy sex and front-page celebrity gossip.  Reality TV is pitched people who have nothing better to do in their lives apart from ponder the latest horse-testicle diet craze or discuss why Britney Spears cut off her left tit at the Grammy’s.

This expertly crafted-shit tainting our screens reaches a mythical summit as the contestants are deliberately confined into a cramped compartment amidst staged provocation.  The composition of these media monstrosities are largely the dregs of decency: sleazy celebrities, camp cross-dressers, pompous politicians, and the attention seeking afflicted coupled with fizzled has-been fools.   Controversy and ignorance naturally erupts and the producers are bestowed with weeks of shrill gossip from dogmatic drama causing heightened viewing ratings and multiplying millions into their bank accounts.

I have to wonder how far we have come as a civilised society when millions of people fry their minds watching hideous programmes like ‘The Fat Fuck Makeover: Brazilian Wax Special’ and ‘Make My Putrid Girlfriend Attractive’.  You will hear about it all week if slutty Sarah slips her melon tits out on a live show, whilst honest people committed to helping others and saving lives go largely unnoticed and uncelebrated.  Instant fame is being granted to the wholly undeserving and society has lost focus on what is really important.

I can’t think of a single reason not to imperialise and export these admirable values onto the remaining uncivilised savages worldwide, as ‘advanced’ nations have largely and successfully done, converting everyone in adopting this enlightened way of life.  

I decided to create my own reality TV formats.

My first Reality television programme is called 'Gay for a Month'.  Simply take heterosexual celebrity couples and parallel each sex into new homosexual relationships decided by prior public phone-in voting.  The challenge is ultimately to become gay.  Once the pairs are chosen and bound by civil partnership they will be transported to cottages in Devon where they can adjust to their new lifestyle change and joe public can watch them on camera for 24 hours a day.  Gay personal trainers will be coaching the contestants in the fine art of carpet munching and the use of the double-ended dildo amongst other gay activities.  The winning couple will be voted by a panel consisting of Elton John, George Michaels, Graham Norton and David Beckham.

My next Reality television series will be called ‘Smackhead Travel’. This is where we gather together fame seeking anti-drugs campaigner's and make them travel the world via cheap airline tickets.  The main challenge is to see what volume of illegal drugs they can shove up their arses inside condoms. Jamaican yardie personal trainers will teach the contestants techniques on how to bribe customs officials, avoid detection and resist arrest.  As this will be a programme tailored for all ages, a dog called ‘Sniffie’ will be brought into appeal to families and youngsters.  ‘Sniffie’ will be a highly trained police dog that attempts to detect our contestants on their travels. The spectacular finale will consist of the contestants pulling condoms out of their arse with their left-hand in the centre of Heathrow Airport Terminal 3, whilst taking a heated phone-call from a drug lord and simultaneously attempting to bribe customs officials all at once. The shows panel of judges will include Russell Brand and a group of rappers to conclude the most effective drugs pusher.

1 comment:

  1. Reality TV is pitched people who have nothing better to do in their lives apart from ponder the latest horse-testicle diet craze or discuss why Britney Spears cut off her left tit at the Grammy’s.

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