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Title: I have a new shamefully trashy TV favourite
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 12 November, 2011, 06:33:21 pm
Bridezillas on Really. It's absolutely dreadful, everyone in it is horrific and it's as compulsive as Jeremy Kyle.  :-[
Title: Re: I have a new shamefully trashy TV favourite
Post by: redshift on 12 November, 2011, 10:47:50 pm
As someone who spent much of the last six years working on the Kyle show, I have to say I find it far from compulsive viewing.  I therefore won't be watching...
Title: Re: I have a new shamefully trashy TV favourite
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 12 November, 2011, 11:12:30 pm
Compulsive in that if you see a bit of it, you want to stay to see how it ends because it's so awful.
Title: Re: I have a new shamefully trashy TV favourite
Post by: andygates on 12 November, 2011, 11:15:01 pm
So, the lowbrow version of a Lars von Trier movie? :smug:
Title: Re: I have a new shamefully trashy TV favourite
Post by: Manotea on 12 November, 2011, 11:17:34 pm
Mrs Manotea has taken to watching Made in Chelsea. She says it's 'hypnotic'.
Title: Re: I have a new shamefully trashy TV favourite
Post by: Hot Flatus on 13 November, 2011, 07:09:36 am
As someone who spent much of the last six years working on the Kyle show, I have to say I find it far from compulsive viewing.  I therefore won't be watching...

I found the Kyle show amusing for a short while, until I realised the full horror of what was going on. I can't bear to see it now.Getting people with special needs on a stage and winding them up so they are ready to fight, whilst purporting to help them is cynical and amoral beyond belief.

Title: Re: I have a new shamefully trashy TV favourite
Post by: Jaded on 15 May, 2019, 10:04:06 am
...and now it is permanently cancelled.
Title: Re: I have a new shamefully trashy TV favourite
Post by: Wowbagger on 15 May, 2019, 10:07:24 am
It only took 8 years.

Damn. I missed it.
Title: Re: I have a new shamefully trashy TV favourite
Post by: PeteB99 on 15 May, 2019, 10:52:01 am
Yeah, missed it here too.

My TV knowledge was hung out to shame yesterday when I confused Jeremy Kyle and Jeremy Vine.

"Isn't it a radio show?"

"No it's daytime TV, what do you do with your spare time?"

Not watch TV ;D
Title: Re: I have a new shamefully trashy TV favourite
Post by: T42 on 15 May, 2019, 10:54:24 am
I only became aware of its existence this morning. Sounds worth missing.
Title: Re: I have a new shamefully trashy TV favourite
Post by: Jaded on 15 May, 2019, 10:55:35 am
It was a bear pit.

I appreciate the some of the stories coming out about the production are filtered for negativity, but they don't really surprise me.

All pretty horrible. Stand offs, goading behind the scenes, manipulating people etc.
Title: Re: I have a new shamefully trashy TV favourite
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 15 May, 2019, 11:20:16 am
It only took 8 years.

Damn. I missed it.

Kyle filled the vacuum left by Robert Kilroy Silk. Kilroy's career profile risks shifting this thread to POBI, but covers a lot of topical ground. From Corbyn to UKIP, via Islamophobia.
https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2011/sep/23/robert-kilroy-silk-returns-interview
Title: Re: I have a new shamefully trashy TV favourite
Post by: Mr Larrington on 15 May, 2019, 01:04:50 pm
Killjoy-Fink was orange years before most people had even heard of Donald TЯump.
Title: Re: I have a new shamefully trashy TV favourite
Post by: Kim on 15 May, 2019, 01:08:39 pm
Kilroy's career profile risks shifting this thread to POBI, but covers a lot of topical ground. From Corbyn to UKIP, via Islamophobia.
https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2011/sep/23/robert-kilroy-silk-returns-interview

Not to mention his relentless graffiti campaign...
Title: Re: I have a new shamefully trashy TV favourite
Post by: ian on 15 May, 2019, 01:27:42 pm
I'd always assumed daytime TV like this was for people on industrial pharmaceuticals or those who think the vital and only ingredient in a good breakfast is strong lager. When I watched the US equivalent my consciousness was nestled under a quilt of prescription opioids so strong that I once misjudged the wide entrance to my kitchen by such a wide margin I ended up in the wardrobe. That wasn't so bad, it was the fifteen further minutes I spent trying to find the fridge in there. Honestly, had I found a talking lion in there, I would have just asked who took my oven.

I suppose it's a bread-and-circuses thing, as a sanctimonious middle-classee I feel uncomfortable criticising such things, but it seemed grim from the few clips I've seen rise to the surface, and nothing I've read over the last few days has been endearing. At the end of the show, those are actual people and not TV characters. That someone had to die for the producers and ITV network to look at their feet and mumble a half-hearted apology (while emailing their PR team), well, I think that says something.
Title: Re: I have a new shamefully trashy TV favourite
Post by: Kim on 15 May, 2019, 01:32:52 pm
I'd always assumed daytime TV like this was for people on industrial pharmaceuticals

IME it's for people in hospital waiting rooms (so you're not far off), desperately hoping that someone will see them before their brain melts.  See also: The Hoobs[1].



[1] Last time I watched The Hoobs, I had a trapped gallstone to help take my mind off it.
Title: Re: I have a new shamefully trashy TV favourite
Post by: Legs on 15 May, 2019, 01:47:41 pm
Kilroy's career profile risks shifting this thread to POBI, but covers a lot of topical ground. From Corbyn to UKIP, via Islamophobia.
https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2011/sep/23/robert-kilroy-silk-returns-interview

Not to mention his relentless graffiti campaign...
;D Domo arigato Miss Kim