gertvegan
Mar 8th, 2005, 07:45 PM
On the move with Big Brother
Joe Joseph, March 08, 2005, entertainment.timesonline.co.uk (http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,14934-1515213,00.html)
REALITY SHOWS increasingly resemble Cluedo in the way that they just settle for creating new permutations of now familiar reality-show staples; the format’s equivalents of the candlestick, Colonel Mustard, the library, the dagger and Professor Plum. Here’s another similarity to Cluedo: many reality shows make you feel as if you’re watching some kind of criminal activity in progress; even though it may not be a criminal activity proscribed by any known law. It’s the way some of these shows seep a sense of easy malice, heedless of the emotional consequences.
Take Coach Trip (Channel 4), in which seven couples embark on a 30-day bus tour around Europe. If you don’t like the trippers you’re travelling with, you can vote to send them home. A bit like Big Brother on the move, then.
he couples? There’s Barbara and Pete, who’ve never been abroad on holiday; Marion and Phil, who are wary of foreign food; experienced booze-cruisers Steph and Joanne; Max and Tom, two young men from Sussex; Jaki and John, the two oldies in the mix; Rob and Eva (http://www.evagray.com/) , vegans from Wiltshire; and Emma and Sally, sisters from Gloucester who argue a lot. So, a collection pretty much hand-picked for incompatibility and for their potential for conflict; especially when Jaki produces her guitar on the Channel crossing and sings a self-composed song about tampons.
Click the link for the rest of the article.
It looks like its on the telly on weekdays at 1630, and repeated the following morning at 0820, but Saturday is a ??
Has anyone seen it yet ?
Joe Joseph, March 08, 2005, entertainment.timesonline.co.uk (http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,14934-1515213,00.html)
REALITY SHOWS increasingly resemble Cluedo in the way that they just settle for creating new permutations of now familiar reality-show staples; the format’s equivalents of the candlestick, Colonel Mustard, the library, the dagger and Professor Plum. Here’s another similarity to Cluedo: many reality shows make you feel as if you’re watching some kind of criminal activity in progress; even though it may not be a criminal activity proscribed by any known law. It’s the way some of these shows seep a sense of easy malice, heedless of the emotional consequences.
Take Coach Trip (Channel 4), in which seven couples embark on a 30-day bus tour around Europe. If you don’t like the trippers you’re travelling with, you can vote to send them home. A bit like Big Brother on the move, then.
he couples? There’s Barbara and Pete, who’ve never been abroad on holiday; Marion and Phil, who are wary of foreign food; experienced booze-cruisers Steph and Joanne; Max and Tom, two young men from Sussex; Jaki and John, the two oldies in the mix; Rob and Eva (http://www.evagray.com/) , vegans from Wiltshire; and Emma and Sally, sisters from Gloucester who argue a lot. So, a collection pretty much hand-picked for incompatibility and for their potential for conflict; especially when Jaki produces her guitar on the Channel crossing and sings a self-composed song about tampons.
Click the link for the rest of the article.
It looks like its on the telly on weekdays at 1630, and repeated the following morning at 0820, but Saturday is a ??
Has anyone seen it yet ?