Real life? (BBC 1)

Member Name: scotia1949

Product:	BBC 1
Date:	14/06/01 (42 review reads)
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Advantages: none

Disadvantages: boring, too many, outdated

Am I the only person around who is sick to the back teeth with the BBC's love of so called "real life", fly on the wall, docu-soap or whatever you wish to call it. We have had learner driver Maureen, we have had hotels, we have had airports, we have had airlines, we have traffic wardens, need I go on? You get my drift I am sure.

Do those of us sitting at home after returning from our own boring dead end jobs really find watching other people doing their own boring dead end jobs entertaining?

Oh, and they are so true to life aren't they? There isn't the slightest chance that the "stars" of these docusoaps might be playing to the camera, is there? Would you go to stay in the Adelphi Hotel in Liverpool after seeing how the manageress there behaved, or apparently behaved?

These shows are cheap television, pure and simple and that is why they make so many of them. This also applies to all those vet, hospital, makeover, garden, DIY sorts of programme. You know the sort of thing, Animal Hospital gets a new extension built by the Ground force team and decorated by the pretentious prats from Changing Rooms, hosted of course by smiley smiley Carol Smillie!

So come on BBC, stop giving us this drivel. the format has been done to death, bury it and start trying to give us some value entertainment in the evening. I don't pay my £109 a year or whatever it is now to have to keep retreating upstairs to my PC because there is nothing worth watching on the box.

PS Don't even get me started on cookery programmes as that would fill another op by itself! Now there's a thought.

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