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1. Is there any evidence that the big showbiz type voices used by announcers such as in bullseye, xfactor, circuses, lottery etc actually serve any purpose other than to make you think it's all utter tosh? is there any evidence that viewers like it?
2. the bloke who presents xfactor, came onto the stage and did some short dance move thing with 2 dancers. why? do people watch that and think it's good?
obviously i'm middle aged and don't understand popular culture.
Turn the TV off. 90% of tele is awful.
It is completely awful. You are still watching it though so they still win 🙄
well, yeah i don't watch much, just wondered why they do things like the big voice and silly dances. do people really like it?
you have to remember most of these shows are aimed at young and or retarded viewers 😉
not really, gets on my nerves but car crash TV is car crash TV and everything on a Saturday night is awful. Just watched my favorite Queen song butchered by some weirdo with dodgy hair. I'm still watching it though.
I think it's generally for people to sneer at and moan about.. unless you're a nan.. in which case anything even remotely vibrant is enough to take your mind off your impending mortality and is therefore 'lovely'.. or a hormonal adolescent in which case everything remotely glamorous is probably 'dreamy' (mildly titillating)
HTH
most tv is aimed at a certain viewer.
radio 2 is aimed at normal folk tho.
Q1 - its self referential (and sometimes its camp self parody) - announcers sound like that because thats what announcers sound like - it'll have its roots in theatre and music hall when you literally had to shout at the audience. You could announce the next contestant in the manner of Whispering Bob Harris but people expect something a bit more like a town crier
Q2 - dunno
instead of
radio 2 is aimed at normal folk tho.
the kind of normal folk who phone Jeremy Vine?
I wouldn't have a clue what you're talking about. Your life would probably be a lot better if you didn't either.
I think it's great - no brain time required, just chill and take it for what it is. If I want culture, I'll find culture. If I want educating, then I'll find something to educate me. If I want to switch off on a Saturday night, watching people who are mostly actually quite talented, being paraded on a formatted entertainment show, then I'm quite happy with that.
Get over it, or just don't watch it.
Get over it, or just don't watch it.
Indeed, or just be so haughtily above it all.
What's a T.V?
The females of the house watch such sh!te, I hunch over my laptop and mutter to myself. It's the only way.
Rorschach:What's a T.V?
Television.
....hang on. Is this like one of those ink blot tests, where it's all about the viewers interpretation?....I forget their name.
don't underestimate the ignorance, stupidity and culpability of your audience as well as your "talent".
Simon Cowell has said this somewhere, sometime, when he was drunk. Whoever heard him he had shot.
Methinky you watch the wrong programmes.
It's not about shit programs, it's about those two aspects. what does a booming voice and bit of a dance add?
Yeah, but erm..ITV, You expect something else?
Anyway E4 now, meet the spartans, crap but I'm delving into a rather good bottle of Spanish Red.
TV is poop.
News is depressing.
Movies are fine as well as some sports.
Get out more.
Ride?
Watch your fave programmes but don't become a couch potato - life is too short as it is!
There's a button. It makes all the bad people stop.
Use it, move on with your life.
X Factor,
Twilight,
and QI
all 3 absolutely waste of time tonight.
But they interupted Click on bbc news channel to say some foreign geezer had resigned, being Welsh i hoped it was Camerooon, but no it was somebody from another bankrupt country plc.
Dunno.
In other news, I just sat on my roadie and I now have enough movement in my right leg to turn the cranks.
Now to the weather.
Outlook is sunny, with just a mild wind.
Sports... yes I'm going to ride my bike for the first time in a month.
You stay classy, San Diego?
shouty authorative voice gets yer ear attention.
dancing gets yer eyes a jiggling.
It'd be nothing without all the lights though. It's the lights that make it. look at 'em! loads.
take it easy TSY, no hill intervals
Huxley had it: soma.
Just got in from ride. What's " x factor". Sounds awful so don't watch it. Been to pub as well, so don't mind me.
no hill intervals
Wouldn't even consider them 🙂
If I can manage anything over 20 miles at anything over 15 mph avg I'll be a happy boy... a very happy boy.
The simple answer is not to watch anything which pretends to be reality tv, televised karaoke, televised dancing or televised anything else which is shite.
"I don't like it, so it's shit". STW has spoken.
God, you're all so far up your own arses it a wonder you can reach the keyboard.
I only have the vaguest notion of what you're on about. I don't like most 'Family Entertainment' Saturday evening TV, so I refuse to watch it. In fact, Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings are spent listening to music and reading, before going out to the pub on Friday and Saturday. Anything I might be interested is time shifted via the Sky box for other evenings. I'm discriminating about what I watch, so I have no need to bitch about what crap is on the telly. I respectfully suggest you do the same, instead of whining about it.
Is your other half habitually watching this junk grounds for breaking up?
I have never seen any of the programmes you are talking about but I can safely assume they are a load of old shirt.
Ladies love this crap and don't appreciate men huffing and puffing through it.
Sounds like the perfect time to go for a ride or down the pub.
( New rant) My nearest pub has a telly and shows the news with the sound off. Unless its sport NO TELLY IN PUBS EVER.
I used to love Sat Eve TV.. Crinkly Bottom and all that, but then Pant & Donk came on and it went sideways from there on in. But I'll admit it's hard watching on Sat Eves... I used to like that Robin Hood thingy, and deffo Merlin, but sadly thats all there is. Never a fan of Dr Who eithers.. So now we spend that time waiting for Merlin cooking and listening to funky tunes maaaaan.
I don't think you've really come to this with an open mind, have you iDave?
When you take your kids to the panto do you refuse to join in shouting "he's behind you!" because they obviously know it anyway?
..... and Bruce Forsyth. Don't get me started. For some reason, he is revered on the telly by his peers. I just don't get it; its cringe-inducing.
Saturday evening telly was ruined when they stopped broadcasting The Muppet Show.
A question for those who slate X-factor, strictly come dancing, i 'm a celebrity, etc. What kind of tv would you like more of instead?
See, all this stuff has bin carefully thought out and planned right down to the smallest detail. Soaps, gameshows, 'reality' shows, talent contests, the news, etc etc etc. Billions are spent on researching the best way to gain audiences, get bigger viewing figures, have a bigger slice of the pie. Entire careers hinge on the success of some crappy mind-numbing dross. All sorts of people, from psychologists to psy, psi, Simon Cowell are employed in a massive industry to churn out what the public 'wants'.
People with 'useless' Media Studies degrees sit behind the scenes, plotting the next attention grabbing show. All sorts of 'control groups' and test audiences are used, to determine which techniques work best. People are hooked up to machines which test responses, heart-rates, sweatiness, brain activity. It's a proper science.
Ultimately it's about satisfying a sense of 'need' in the individual; giving them something they can trust, believe in, feel they are part of, somehow. How many condversations at work etc are about telly shows?
TV's a huge part of our lives, like it or not. If you watch it, you are involved in the whole spectacle.
[b]STW- [/b]Ultimately it's about satisfying a sense of 'need' in the individual; giving them something they can trust, believe in, feel they are part of, somehow.
😉
Yunki's got it. 🙂
Notice how folk will still moan incessantly about the forum though...? 😉
Blimey Fred, that's a reasoned, articulate and well thought out post.
Feeling OK? 🙂
Celebrity Juice FTW.
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Blimey Fred, that's a reasoned, articulate and well thought out post.Feeling OK?
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Yeah! Where did you get it from?
All my posts are reasoned, articulate and well thought out.
It's just that many people aren't thinking straightly when they read them.
TBH I'm more concerened about what I'm going to have for supper. I thought the cheesy tomatoey pasta bake what I did last night would be sufficient, but I've now eaten it all. What a greedy little pig. 😐
Solution:
I'm having mussels and chips and watching a shit-load of stuff I've recorded on my HD box.
Love telly. Love food. Love telly and food.
A TV is just one of those things you have to have in your house when you have a Girlfriend, like wallpaper, floral bedding and occasional sobriety.