Tell It Like It Is
All sorts of people really wind me up. Nikki from Big Brother is not a bad example. As previously commented and feared, I got the feeling that she was going to be in the public eye for some time to come and right in the middle of the best show on TV at the moment, Lost, she turns up on a trailer for her own show. I have vowed to watch absolutely none of Princess Nikki whatsoever! However, the thing about Nikki is that there is no pretense about her to suggest that she is anything other than a celebrity wannabe. She wants to be a celebrity despite (or may be because) she has no discernable talents and, as I said before, fair play. The folks who really, really wind me up though, are the deluded souls who inhabit the worlds of two of the mosts popular reality shows of the moment, X-Factor and Dragon’s Den.
The folks over at TV Scoop have been writing about the antics of latest inventors to step up to the challenge of facing the unfeasably affluent panel. Some of these people are so criminally under-prepared it beggars belief while at the same time being just a little bit sad, but it’s the ones who are so blinkered that they truly believe their “cucumber condoms” and “cardboard beach furniture” are actually great ideas. It’s hardly worth giving these people the time of day, let alone some part of £1/4m. And then there’s X-Factor… good grief, where do you start?! There are people who turn up for auditions who couldn’t hold a note if their sorry, pathetic lives depended on it. Car crash TV at its very worst. However, there seems to be an unsettling trend that goes beyond these delusional no-hopers.
Simon, Louis and Sharron, I imagine, would only have 7 hours a day for auditions, at 10 minutes a go that’s 42 turns a day but there are 100’s if not 1000’s that turn up to be humliated seen. Therefore, the contestants have to be vetted. Therefore, someone has to do the vetting and choose these… “people” to be put before the triumvirate. Therefore, we as an audience are being manipulated and forced to watch (and laugh at) these people…. and, is it just me or has this whole “lets have a look at the highlights of the auditions” part of the series, been inordinately lengthened to run for week upon sorry week to the degree that this is no longer a “talent show” but, very deliberately, a “no talent show”. Why, and here’s the $64,000 question, do I enjoy it so much?
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