TV Watch with Declan Tierney
No sooner have we escaped one talent show but we are immersed in another. It is just bordering on the ridiculous at the moment.
It just seems as if every time we turn on the telly we are confronted with a terrible singer or someone who wants to perform a card trick.
There was a time when I genuinely believed that these so called reality TV shows would wear themselves out. But it seems there is no stopping them.
It is genuinely hard to distinguish one from the other. This type of programme seems to be all over the place. It has become something of an epidemic.
Over the weekend I happened to fall over Britain’s Got Talent which I am given to believe is in its early stages so one can only presume that this is going to go on for several months.
Now, I have no problem with genuinely talented people getting their 15 minutes of fame on the television but it is another thing when complete eegits are afforded time on the telly.
These were people who were afforded time on ITV to display their magical talents which they must have learned from the back of a matchbox and to be quite honest, it was nothing short of an embarrassment.
Of course this show is presented by the insufferable Ant and Dec who are otherwise occupied presenting a programme about people eating snails and insects as part of their so called challenge in Australia’s outback. Cutting edge stuff.
But when they are not doing that, they are presenting this rubbish which really should not occupy prime time television. There would be more enjoyment recording the registrations of passing cars.
It is simply incredible that people actually watch this crap. Obviously if they didn’t, we wouldn’t have to endure it anymore but what happens on these shows still occupies workplace banter on a Monday morning.
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