May 29th, 2007
Forget about money, look what you could win!
Will we watch anything?
Last week Channel 4 showed a ‘documentary’ about a 26 year old male virgin attending a ‘virgin school’ in Holland. His first experiences of touching a woman’s body, looking at female genitalia, getting ‘intimate’ and ultimately having sex were all captured on camera – and broadcast to the world. Lovely. I’m sure that’s going to help him have a more relaxed and normal attitude to sex…
I was abroad and missed the show. Having heard about it and read about it I think it sounds awful, exploitative, obscene. I’m also gutted that I missed it.
So I admit it; I’m part of the problem. Who can blame TV producers for showing (freak) shows which humiliate and denigrate people when the rest of us keep watching them?!
What’s next? Season 8 of Big Brother – stale news. I’ll probably watch it, but not with excitement.
However – those Dutch geniuses who brought us BB have dreamed up something sicker and better: the Big Donor show. Basically, a group of people will be competing to win a kidney. The producers have found a terminally ill woman who has agreed to give away one of her kidneys as a prize.
The public will vote who should receive the kidney; in other words, they’ll vote for whose life they want to save.
Now that’s killer TV.
Unsurprisingly the Dutch government is skeptical about this show.
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