Wednesday 19th November

We live in such a ridiculous world that the public love nothing better than seeing complete non-entities, who are suddenly hoisted to the pedestal of being a “celebrity”, made to undergo the most physically demeaning of tasks just for the chance of some exposure or a tiny boost to a flagging career.   I must admit that I stopped watching this crap a few years ago, but my interest was renewed last year when our neighbour in Eymet’s sister was on the show.  Well she got booted out quickly which saved us the pain of watching the rest of the “show”.  I am not sure who first stumbled on the formula for this particular “reality” TV show but they followed the old ITV formula of the Lowest Common Denominator perfectly, it is both childish and inane, can be repeated night after night, has plenty of ad breaks, has the two most stupid presenters ever, and has not progressed at all ever since it was conceived.  The only difference is that the “celebrities” are even more Z list than ever.

Actually if you look at TV it is very very formulaic, most of the programmes have been going for years, Corrie, East-enders, Casualty, Holby, Big Brother, Strictly and X-Factor stick rigidly to their own formulas.  This is a sure indicator that either the audience is soporific and will accept familiarity every time over originality (quite probable actually) or that any vestige of creative talent is stifled at birth by the corporations running the “Meedja”.  Just as in mainstream music anyone genuinely pushing the boundaries is killed off and replaced at once by another bland karaoke singer, the girls resorting to removing even more articles of clothing and the guys having to sing in boy-bands of increasing prettiness every few years.

Thank god I was born when I was – we had Rock’n’Roll, Beat Music, Soul, Surf, Prog Rock, Heavy Metal, Glam, Punk and New Romantics leapfrogging each other and producing original vibrant and different styles every few years.  Now we have a diet of never-ending blandness and second rate celebrities.  It’s an “I’m A Celebrity” world – get me Outta Here……