Reality TV shows aren't real life

Been there
If you never watch big brother then why are you able to compare the first with the last in terms of the people in it? You seem to know a lot about it.

Big Brother is not the beginning of mind control! It is just very cheap and easy to make; companies will keep producing this rubbish as long as people go on watching it.

Real mind control is accepting CCTV surveillance everywhere and laws which limit our freedoms.

People of Britain and indeed the world.
"Reality TV " is the begining of mind control.
The governments of the world are all buying into this as it continues to dumb the general population down.
When people are dumb the expect less, want less and are generally happy with less.
Take a close look at the people around you that "Would never miss BB".
They can all be described with one word.
MORON.
Look at the "housemates" from BB series 1 and compaire them to the morons in whatever number the last series was.
SWITCH OFF PEOPLE!

They are like a disease and seem to appeal mostly to teenagers and young women who buy celebrity gossip mags. As television, reality shows are of no merit as they are so forgettable and disposable. Mercifully Big Borether is being axed in England next year so this could be the beginning of the end for this junk.

Vaneps, I am sorry if I am telling you something that you already know but are you aware that if you hold down the “control” key while using the scroll wheel on your mouse, you can make the text on web sites larger? It also gets darker and easier to read. If you are using a laptop with no mouse you can hold down control and use the +key instead. The – key makes it smaller again.
I hope this helps.
Regards Rori

I am someone with a visual handicap. I am not offended by capitalized posts. They are not harder to read for me but easier since the print is larger. I will go along with the rule as I am in this post but in reality a word in capital letters is just that. It is not shouting. Tghere is no way to shout on a written post. Anyway I too think reality shows are not reality by any means and I find the term "reality show" offensive.

My personal gripe is against such T/V programmes as Big Brother where aimless behaviour and foul language comes to the fore. I do not watch such programmes unless my finger slips on the remote but there are children in bedrooms all over the country, watching and listening, parents downstairs not knowing and sometimes not caring. What are the T/V companies doing to our youth other than teaching them that what they are seeing and hearing is normal. It is no wonder that this country has so many young folk in trouble.

I agree, leave them to it...however when I meet up with a friend for a coffee and they choose to fill me in on all the events in the big brother house I'm off in search of better conversation! Not before scoring them off my 'cool to go for a coffee with' list.

Personally I have never watched big brother and the myriad similar types of programmes.However a lot of people do have very simple tastes and very minimal intellectual needs and these types of programmes seem to give them a good deal of enjoyment and satisfaction.I say leave them alone to enjoy it.

I strongly suspect that we "RCTSC haters" are the vast - but silent - majority.

Isn't there something we can do about it?

Most of what has been said about 'reality' TV here already, I agree with. However, what I call not only 'reality' TV, but Reality,Celebrity, Talent Show Crap or RCTSC for short has ruined TV. Perhaps permanantly, thouth I hpe not!

The big problem is that one is almost 'bullied' into watching. Here in GB, it's impossible to get away from them! Switching to another channel or turning the TV off is not enough! For example, The BBC and ITV will wax lyrical about Channel 4's Big Brother. ITV will go on about BBC's Strictly Come Dancing and Last Choir Standing whilst the BBC drones on about ITV's X Factor, I'm a Celeb, Get Me Out of Here and Dancing on Ice!!!!! I turn on the radio and the same thing happens, BBC radio is on about BB, Dancing on Ice and I'm a Celeb!!!! And dont talk abpout the tabloid press in all this...hype, hype, hype!

The sooner this type of programming comes to an end the better. However, it will not happen as long as people allow themselves to act like sheep and be easily manipulated.

Ok, I used to wath big bro for the first few series, it was different, but now I am sick to the back teeth of reality TV. You can not switch the TV without seeing someone sat in a house doing nothing, someone humiliating themselves on a talent show, or someone painting their front room and some half a*sed celeb saying its not the right shade. It is dumbing down the nation, they wonder why people get depressed its because they come home from a low paid job they hate, put the TV on and some has been or wanabee is making megabucks by sitting in the Big Bro garden rubbing suncream on themselves!!!
WE NEED TO PUT A STOP TO THIS NOW!!. A lot of these shows go on because of the high viewing figures, this is not always the case, many people will just leave the TV on and not even be watching it. Or some people watch reality TV because there is nothing else on, well this is due to the other channels not wanting to compete with 'I used to be a celeb', 'big bro', 'I cant dance but I'll try anyway' etc etc.
My point is if we turn the TV off when they are on eventually they will get decomisioned and channels will start putting better dramas/films on. Please Please Please join me in trying bring back good TV!!!
If there is nothing on TV then read a book, go to the Gym, spend time with your partner ANYTHING! just dont submit to watching celebs jumping through a hole in the wall.

Dont forget we are paying a TV license to watch this stuff WHY WHY WHY are we doing this???????

These programmes are worthless, conveyor belt television that seem to appeal to people who buy celeb mags and trash newspapers like the Daily Star. I notice the Daily Star is bigging up the return of Celebrity Big Brother as if it's the second coming. The fact is these programmes are worthless junk that are instantly forgettable, cannot be repeated and cannot be made into DVDs as the viewers forget about them as some as one series ends and another starts. I for one would wish OFCOM would step in and ban the whole genre as it is getting beyond a joke. Can't people realise reality shows are boring refuges for untalented ex celebs or unemployables.