Thursday, May 1, 2008

Telly Vision

My mate's a tv producer. He makes documentaries. At least, he wanted to make documentaries. He's now doing what I guess is called trash tv.

Starting off his televisual life as a bona-fide documentary enthusiast, he has slowly slid into making programmes following gap-year students around their binge-drinking travels, filming cars falling off cliffs, and men pleasuring themselves all in the name of entertainment. 

But I don't blame him. He's just going where the work is. What's happened to us as a society that we're no longer interested in wildlife or history or world politics, but would much rather watch endless repeats of 'a place in the sun'. Let's stop making food and property programmes, and get back to real entertainment and interesting tv.

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