I have had enough of cheap shoddy rubbish like Big Brother.  I haven't watched any of it since the first UK series and it is DOMINATING the media.  You don't have to watch it or read about it to be annoyed by it.  The girls at work seem to talk about nothing else and it is low budget, false reality TV at its worst.  Total non entities get their five minutes of fame and I have to suffer because of it.

And whilst I'm of the subject DON'T let me get started on David and Victoria "Nauseating Pratts" Beckham.  (Posh and Becks).

Its hit hard everywhere. For once I think I found a community that agrees with me that reality TV shows must GO! I think simmers are the most loyal and honest group of people in the world. We respect many things in this world (mostly big metal birds  ), and we respect each other. Unlike other communities in this world. I trust a fellow simmers opinion the most. Reality TV SUCKS!

And the most annoying thing about American reality TV shows is that they get exported to us!

We either get really annoying Americans in stupid situations or really poor quality Anglicised versions of American shows.

The only selling point to the TV stations is that these shows are cheap to make and that those with no education seem to love them and will watch them for hours.  The get to have a program with a very low finantial outlay, massive advertising potential and interactive features that mean that the TV companies win three ways.  We will never see the back of reality TV.

The other thing that bugs me is lowest common denominator documentarys.  I am sure you know what I mean.  They build you up about the latest documentary on for example V1 flying bombs, showing clips of them as trailers plus snippets of interviews with technicians who worked on them and pilots who shot 'em down.

The program starts at 20.00 hours.  The first ten minutes tells you all about Hitler and the course of World War 2 up until 1943.  There are lots of in depth pauses and poor quality graphics of a Spitfire and FW190.  At 20.10 you have an advert break for five minutes.  20.15 comes and until 20.20 they go over again in even more basic terms what they told you during the first ten minutes.  The rest of the show continues in the same vein and IF you are lucky at 20.55 you finally get on to the subject at hand, Ie V1 Flying Bombs and then you get FIVE MINUTES OF TOSSING CREDITS.

Thanks for your time.

Will

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Hi Webb...!
The trouble is the brainless idiots do..... ....!
They seem to love all this trash, which is infecting the lives of the sensible few amongst us..!
I have ignored television since 1976 when the dross got started, I just listen to selected radio programs now.
Even my "Freeserve" main page splashes the latest results of BIG BROTHER every day. That's without all the other media crap.
It's enough to want me to change my ISP... ...!

I am starting to dispair of human nature.... ...!

Never mind lads and lasses.... ...!
There's always SIMVIATION to keep us sane... ...!
LOL...!!

Cheers all... ...!
Paul.
(England).

let's kill the guys who invented "superstar" and "big brother". i can't take those f****** shows anymore! 

The really tedious thing is the knowledge that we in britain created most reality tv shows that then got exported around the world. e.g big brother and I'm a celebrity get me out of here.

I'm happy that that crap program has finished in holland...

the most fun part were the guys that parachuted in the garden of the building and got chased by the security guards...

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that was not what i meant

The 'Big Brother' program had a hut somewhere in holland, with a 2 meter fence around it so the tabloid press could not see what was happening inside.

Then the most annoying TV person of holland got the idea of paradropping himself and a camera crew into the garden of that house...
Eventually he landed on the wrong side of the fence, with the audio guy, the cameraman landed in the garden, and got chased by some 3 security guys... that was more fun than all the 30 episodes of the crappy programme as a whole, and they cut it out of the official footage...

Well the Beckhams are gone 

I'm not one sorry to see them go they are just brainless fools who got rich and don't know how to spend money with any taste whatsoever

I don't think Big Brother is on anymore in North America, probably due to lack of interest. The reality fad is still alive but dying quickly. Thoes shows rarely make the top Neilson ratings list anymore and it now seens (by my observations) that Survivor (America's first of the boom) will too be wrapping up soon. The FOX networks still pumps them out at an alarming pace, but the shows are so silly, they just become ammunition for comics like Jay Lenno. 

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That's not so bad, over here, we get bombarded with stories about your Royals. BTW, seems Chuckles is going to marry Horse Face. Amazing what you learn at the grocery store checkout. 

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Which particular 'Horseface' are they refering to.
There are so many in Royal circles...............

Oh dear, and me still a loyal British Subject!!

Although, I don't think Aussies have been considered 'proper' Subjects since we were all shipped over here................lol (I kill me )

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oh GOD besides pest, i think Survivor is the most ANNOYING import from over seas, it takes up valiable TV time and i hate seeing people b*tch at each other in the jungle with there nikis in a twist. WHAT?? DID I SAY VALIABLE TV TIME??!? only descent thing on TV is the News!

ViNtAgE FlYa,

Haven't you heard how biased the news is?

The only things good on TV are

1. Uncut movies (you usually have to pay for them),

2. Live sports, and

3. Documentaries like History Channel (no BBC or PBS junk.)

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I'm refering to Charles and Camila. Hey, didn't Aussies used to all be British convicts. 
The people who formed Canada were traders and rich Loyalists. The people who formed Australia were arrested for stealing a pig.  I'm just kidding of course.

Back on the topic of reality. American Idle was bad enough, now we have Canadian Idle. 

Hey Smokes.
I love 'Sliders'. I think it's one of the best Sci-fi shows of the last 30 or so years.
It. like 'Star Gate', has a different, more interesting theme. Different from the usual Space ship goes out, gets in trouble, beats aliens and everyone's a hero, type theme.
I love Star Trek because it's the best of the best, in that vein of show. But Sliders and Star Gate have taken Sci FI a little further by steering clear of the whole 'Space travel business and all their 'gadding about' is done by other means.

John Rys-Davies played the character named 'Sala'
in Ark and Last Crusade. 

are you peaple mad??!! shouldn't all you be flying in ur spear time instead of wasting ur spear time on the idiot box!!??!?