Screen Burn
“Hundreds of channels, filling hundreds of hours. No wonder the majority of programmes are churned out like sausage meat: unloved swathes of videotape whose sole purpose is to bung up the schedule. They used to call TV ‘chewing gum for the eyes’, but most of the time it isn’t even that good any more. Modern chewing gum has flavour; it’s constantly updated in new and exciting ways (like the new ‘melt in the mouth’ gum strips that turn your tongue blue and your breath fresh, then vanish like a ben...evolent menthol ghost). Most modern TV is uniformly nondescript, the equivalent of oxygen-flavoured gum.
Apologies if I sound despondent and cathode-weary, but I’ve just sat through an episode of Boot Sale Challenge (ITV1), and it’s left me violently disillusioned. Don’t get me wrong. I love television. I grew up licking screens with delight. Maybe I was young and impressionable. Maybe I never noticed how boring the majority of TV shows were back then. Or maybe these days I’m bitter … but when you’re confronted with meaningless ‘will-this-do?’ dregcasts like Boot Sale Challenge, it’s hard to shake the notion that things never used to be this clawingly, embarrassingly desperate.MoreLess
Apologies if I sound despondent and cathode-weary, but I’ve just sat through an episode of Boot Sale Challenge (ITV1), and it’s left me violently disillusioned. Don’t get me wrong. I love television. I grew up licking screens with delight. Maybe I was young and impressionable. Maybe I never noticed how boring the majority of TV shows were back then. Or maybe these days I’m bitter … but when you’re confronted with meaningless ‘will-this-do?’ dregcasts like Boot Sale Challenge, it’s hard to shake the notion that things never used to be this clawingly, embarrassingly desperate.MoreLess
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