Car crash tv....

Here we are in self isolation for 3 weeks. Many people are struggling to find things to do or are “bored” with having to spend 3 weeks in a house that they have bought, decorated and furnished with things to make it comfortable. Why don’t people do something rash like use the opurtunity to do something positive? I don’t mean learn a new language or write a book but play with their kids or make plans-start projects with their spouse or partner.

The media is full of celebrities and their struggles as their selfies show how they are coping in their 10 bedroom mansions with swimming pools.....

Others have to go out shopping with their designer face masks .........but I digress.

Having gone through the news which has for the most been repetitively similar for the last month ... I clicked on the US showbiz section of the Daily Mail online ....I know....

Isn’t it amazing how “showbiz” or “celebrity” takes on a whole new meaning.

Amidst articles about Brad Pitt, John Travolta and Angelina Jolie are loads of others

I still don’t understand the fixation with the Kardashians/Jenners. The fact that you get screen time for overacting badly in front of cameras by talking loudly and controversially whilst being a designer coat hanger is something I will never get.

This has spawned “Real Housewives” from a variety of different places from New York,Orange County and Beverly Hills........people.... these are anything BUT real housewives as their plastic surgeons will testify to. Real housewives of the Bronx or Nowhere special  Arkansas probably wouldn’t get ratings because those are real people with real everyday issues.

Whilst we have “Strictly” the Americans gave dancing with the stars.....where it seems compulsory for marriages to fall apart after hours of dancing together..... dancers names appear regularly in the media..... for those of us old enough ..... can you remember any dancer from Saturday night Seaside Special?

 

Teen mom, 90 day fiancé, for the US whilst we have loads of news from stars of TOWIE or Love Island. There was an article about how someone from Gogglebox had passed away ..... a program which watches people watching tv and talking through it ......I mean anyone who wants to talk through tv should be sent to their room.

My big fat Gypsy Wedding or dear god ....the Tiger King, appear to take the most dysfunctional examples of humans and give the world access to them for the viewing world to watch in shock and awe.

The more of this ....cheap tv that there is , the less time broadcasters have to develop a fine historically accurate costume drama.

 

It is all car crash tv. Something that is horrible but that   once seen, cannot be unseen.

In a world where people are famous for being you tubers, social influencers, gamers.....can we take a moment and understand that tv’s idea of reality - just isn’t!