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Here in Australia we are coming to the end of the 6th season of Big Brother. Coming in to replace that will be Australian Idol.

What are your favourites. I personally loved Survivor and The Amazing Race.

Crusha

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America's Got Talent

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Amazing Race, all the way

I liked Survivor 1, but then it felt too 'tv show' and i've watched all the BBs except this one and they were pretty good :0
Don't really like the idol things though.

For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks. - Terry Pratchett

Survivor is my favourite, closely followed by The Amazing Race. Used to watch BB, but it just keeps getting worse and worse. I don't watch Idol, too much pop music for my liking!

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. - Oscar Wilde

Americas Next Top Model and Project Runway.



I'll do graffiti,
If you sing to me in French.

Reality TV?

Thought that was a contradiction in terms.

Take Big Brother as the prime example. I'll tell you what this is all about.

A group of broadcasting executives got together and asked themselves "How can we put together a TV show that's dirt cheap and rakes in masses of loot, so we can all retire to a 200 foot gin palace in Monte Carlo harbour?"

One then piped up and said "I know. We gather together a group of sad, pathetic inadequates, dangle in front of them the prospect of a wad of money and the chance to indulge their "celebrity lifestyle" wet dreams, then stick them in a goldfish bowl equipped with cameras, and encourage them to bring out the worst in each other. If they engage in rampant sexual misconduct on screen, so much the better".

A second then said "What a good idea - there's nothing better your average couch potato likes to watch than people making complete prats of themselves - should have viewing figures of 15 million or more ... so, factor in the fees for showing adverts between the screenings, and ... well, the income projections I've just run through Excel say we're retiring in about four years with enough money to run a Lear Jet each for the rest of our days".

Then a third chimed in with "Ah, but if we involve the couch potatoes in a little scheme whereby they dial a premium rate phone number to vote for which of the zoo specimens is going to be ejected, then we retire to our own private islands each in three".

Then a fourth added, "Oh, throw in the fees we can charge for advertisers to play their ads over our phone number, and ... we're there in two. What's more, it'll cost buttons to set the thing up, so after the show has been running for, oh, about 45 minutes, everything after that is practially pure profit. Minus the wad of prize money we're going to dangle before the unfortunate plebs who are going to occupy our goldfish bowl, but they'll probably be too busy thinking about the fifty grand we'll wave before their faces to notice that we're going to rake 200 million each from this ..." (cue laughter all around the table).

"Hmm, slight problem - how do me make sure that the couch potatoes vote to keep the most 'interesting' - i.e., the worst behaved, and therefore best for TV - specimens in the specimen jar?" asks another.

"Simple", replies Suit Number Three. "The voting doesn't matter at all - we just let the suckers who dial the five dollar a minute number think it does. All the time, we're the ones that decide which of the retards gets the heave-ho, and which collects the prize money at the end. Worked for the Soviet Union for 70 years!"

"So, what do we need to get this up and running?"

"Oh, once the basic costs of setting up some condemned hovel as the goldfish bowl are covered, lining it with cameras etc., all of which can be controlled remotely by some cheap to hire teenagers so we don't have to waste too much of our loot on skilled people, what we need is a group of misfits who under normal circumstances would end up in prison if they were stuck together for more than an hour ... comb some sink estates for prime finger pointing material ... typical kind of life forms we'll be looking for include at least one barely legal floozy who can't wait to flash her bazongas for the camera (all the better if have three with different cup sizes), a terminal pothead who can sit there rambling about who knows what while he's spaced out, at least one borderline sociopath with a past record for assault and battery, and to spice things up, the odd transvestite. Stick them in the blender and hey ho, instant money trough!"

Cynical, moi??? Whatever gave you that idea?


Panda Catfish fan and keeper/breeder since Christmas 2002

Calilasseia

How very true.
The big difference between BB UK and the Aust version is ours is like a Sunday school camp compared to the UK version.

One very good thing it does do is provide work for many people and that is about all.

Survivor some things I have seen are totally laughable partically the Aust version Eg making a camp in a creek bed just before and during the wet season, there was food every where around them and they still could no see it.

Keith

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Are the "idol" things reality TV or variety shows??



For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks. - Terry Pratchett

I like to watch Dog the bounty hunter.. lol thats reality tv right?

*Chelle*
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I love the fishes cuz they're SOOO delicious...

I guess Idol is more like a "Talent" show!

How about the "Biggest Loser", didn't mind that one either.

There are so many of these shows bombarding our screens lately and looking at the previous replies we here in Aus could be receiving a lot more in the future.

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Those who say they cant, Never will !!!

I watch Maximum Exposure on saturday nights. Too bad it hasn't been new since 2002, but it still amazes me how dumb some people can be. Cops is good too.

Survivor some things I have seen are totally laughable partically the Aust version Eg making a camp in a creek bed just before and during the wet season, there was food every where around them and they still could no see it.

What's the betting some disptick will think this is sound advice and wind up dead?

The LAST place I'd look for advice on survival is a 'reality TV' show. If I was in the position of being able to mount an expedition to Peru to film fish and buterflies in the wild, my first port of call would be someone who had done it before and knew the ropes. Probably wouldn't take me too long to find an ex-special forces jungle survival instructor for the purpose. After all, Lenny henry found one in the 80s when he went to Peru for some television programme (and promptly made a prat of himself when confronted with an Avicularia spider - ha ha).


Panda Catfish fan and keeper/breeder since Christmas 2002

My uncle lives in the south pacific and there was a Survivor recently filmed out there. He said the natives were all laughing at the show because there the water was teeming with fish that they easily caught but the dopes on the show were starving. Furthermore, they would say, "Why are they starving, we will give them food if they want, why dont they come to us and ask?" They just didn't get the concept of a "Reality" show - because the true reality of the situation was that there are people on those islands willing to give them food straight up if they're starving, but they dont ask for it. The "starving" part was fiction, they did it to themselves.

Talk about different cultures...

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"the true reality of the situation was that there are people on those islands willing to give them food straight up if they're starving, but they dont ask for it. The "starving" part was fiction, they did it to themselves."



I really don't understand the reality tv craze. I find most of those shows unbelievably silly. I watched the first season of The Real World when I was younger, that's about it.

Except.. I too like Dog The Bounty Hunter.

On Direct Tv there is a channel devoted to nothing but reality tv shows.

- Meow -

My favourite is The Biggest Loser. I don't like reality television that much though.

-- Gomer

I'm an Amazing Race fan. They get to do the coolest things... For free! Yes, true, they don't get to enjoy a lot of where they go because they're racing through it to get to the finish... But... It'd be worth it to be able to see all the wildlife in Africa like they did in one season. Though, I'd have to pass on eating two pounds of caviar...

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I LOVE Big Brother. I've even planned on auditioning until I had a massive sudden schedule conflict. Sucked.

Here in the states we've just started Big Brother Season 7 - don't worry, no spoilers unless you ask.

I am also a bit of an American Idol fan. Some of those people are just crazy great. Its a guilty pleasure.

Cass is 100 percent right. However, I do indulge myself from time to time anyways--or rather, rot my mind.