I'm sick of the reality shows

[Kent]

When will they end for crying out loud!  Everything from a midget bachelor to the fourth edition of "survivor".  My god there is absolutely NOTHING good on TV (even if sports of any kind are on).  I think I'm going to start watching soap operas, or for that matter, soap operas in a foriegn language.

Time to throw the TV out the window imho.

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[Kent]

Oh great... now this offtopic thread is going into an Amiga topic... now I've got to move it... :lol:

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[Kent]

odin wrote:
Don't dare touching the one soap I like, Star Trek ;-).

That's not a soap... that's good TV.  Only problem is, it comes in staticy at best and I refuse to pay for cable/sat.  It's just another industry giant leeching off the public when it could be a fraction of the cost.

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[Kent]

adz wrote:
... all we hear about/see down under is bloody Australian/American Idol ... I suppose reality TV would be good if the people in it were actually real, instead of the plastic dummies that they really are.

The sad thing is, I know the Bachelorette personally (Scantlin, she grew up around here).  Why do people subject themselves to this sort of insta-fame/mockery/humiliation?  So far, every single half-arse act which comes from "#? Idol" is worthless.  I've heard some fantastic DJs (real ones, not the CD/digital mixers) who tried out for "#? Idol" only to be turned down in favor of a someone who can't come up with their own music if it killed them.  I think reality TV would be great if one of them started cussin up a storm and tearin after the producer wanting to "boot some head" or something similar.  I guess that's what makes the show COPS and "#?'s Most Wanted" so great.  To me, a reality show are things like the Croc Hunter or Emeril, not these "I hope my lack of acting is made up for by my stupidity".  I cannot wait until the informational age comes back... the time when people are sick of all this reality junk and turn to things like CNN/C-Span/60 Minutes/ or even 20/20 (ie, the real reality, not some made up junk to hope for ratings).

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