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Originally posted by Stardog:
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The only programmes worth watching are occasionally Dispatches, River Cottage, and very occasionally the odd random documentary.
That's funny, because they're the reason I switch off C4.
Dispatches: Britain Under Water - don't really care because my house, like most people's, is above water. Bottleneck Britain - road congestion, zzzz. The Housing Trap - interesting if you want to buy a house, but otherwise not.
Can't say I'm surprised that the same kind of people who don't care about the state of the country, are the same that find BB highly entertaining.
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Coca-Cola - Wow, a huge worldwide corporation are actually BAD? Really?! Next you'll tell me Microsoft care more about the customer experience than the amount of money they make.
If you read my post properly, you'd have understood that I thought Mark Thomas's documentary was poor.
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River Cottage - boring viewing for the middle class.
That doesn't mean I watch trashy TV all day. I'll watch any Richard Dawkins programme going no matter how biased he may be.
BB and I'm A Celebrity are getting more viewers than most other programmes which shows you what viewers are interested in, and you're in the minority no matter how many posts you see on the internet complaining about BB. I'll take a "wild" guess that you don't like Jonathan Ross either.
So because BB has lots of viewers, that means that BB is still somehow new and innovating? The only thing that's innovative about it, is the producers finding more and more ingenius ways to whip up some meaningless controvacy to try and reverse BB's plummeting ratings.
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Recently, after 8pm, C4 seems to have turned into the terrorism investigation channel which is another time when I switch channels.
Exactly, more controvacy just for the sake of it. I wouldn't actually mind if it was done in an intellectual way, which it very rarely is. Now I see they are tackling Islam. Did they think to show Islam by meeting normal every day Muslims, and showing how they are just people like everyone else? No, they've decided to go for a stereotypical gay man, a glamor model, and a porn collector to live under Muslim Sharia law (something which few British Muslims actually practise) in in an almost exclusively white town. Aaqil Ahmed, Channel 4's commissioning editor for religion says, "If any new people come away with a better understanding of Islam then it will have been worth it". Here's a better idea Aaqil, how about finding an interesting way of showing every day Moderate Muslims, surely a much better way of giving people an understanding of Islam and how it effects people's lives.
C4 has often been accused of portraying Muslims as a bunch of religious Zealots, they could have answered such accusations in a far more thought-provoking and interesting way. Instead they've cross-bred dispatches and Wife-Swap, which makes is almost as bad as a docu-drama. Any good points will get lost in all the meaningless bile.
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