Desert Island Disclocation (Shipwrecked)

Member Name: utero

Product:	Shipwrecked
Date:	07/11/01 (577 review reads)
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Advantages: none

Disadvantages: it's dull, no point to it, it takes moeny that could be spent on better programmes

The dark cold nights are now drawing in so what better way to warm up than watch a programme where people are put onto a desert island to co-exist for a number of weeks. The war clear blue ocean and miles of golden sand should perk up anyone’s winter blues right?

Well maybe in a ideal world but unfortunately we’re talking about shipwrecked, another TV show from the reality television stable and sadly we are now being treated to a third series of what is inept television. If we’re not careful it’ll soon become the norm to have every job in Britain have an audition requirement that has to be televised with judges running the rule over the applicants. I don’t know how TV has got so trashy.

This series has started with a series of 30 minute shows that highlight the audition process where a large group of desperate wannabes make complete fools of themselves to be on a TV show where the reward is nothing but sheer torture. You see these people want to spend weeks on a desert island with some other people they don’t know. To my knowledge there is no cash reward at the end of it and the fame factor is nowhere near the Big Brother leagues. Have you heard of anyone whose come from this programme and into your social conscious? No I didn’t think so.

This week we have been treated to a guy who says he’s a virgin and would be great on the island so TV could televise the cherry loss to the nation. Well the fact that he has hair like Michael Jackson in his ‘Bad’ album era could have something to do with it and the fact that he comes across as a very sill and desperate individual with a penchant for lots of hair gel could have something to do with it as well.

These audition processes are riveting; they mainly consist of sit down interviews with three judges who include Andi Peters, the guy from kid’s television. These people are criticized and asked question about their suitability
for the island. Meanwhile we as the audience try and keep our eyes open.

The thing they don’t tell you is that they are looking for someone who can be completely annoying, this way it makes good conflict in the group. They’re looking for someone who’s very lazy and they’re also looking for the person who’s very headstrong but arrogant. These are the sorry bunch that’ll make good television. Little do they know that they will have nothing to show at the end of it and will be forgotten. They probably also gave up a job for a fleeting chance of fame. No doubt they’ll be sore at the end of it.

I can already tell how this series will turn out, they’ll be conflict, arguments, possible romance and someone will not pull their weight and steal all the food. Of course one of them will turn out to be gay as usual. The promise is that this series will be a lot harder than the previous two. Well the last time I heard this it was called Survivor and look what a flop that turned out to be.

The title for this show would be appropriate if they dropped replaced the ‘p’ with a ‘t’ and chopped off the ‘ed’ from the end.

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