TeeAyBee Posted February 3, 2009 Report Share Posted February 3, 2009 Is anybody watching the hellery on C4 right now? What kind of sadist is putting two groups of kids segregated by gender and expecting the poor children to survive without it resorting to Lord of the Flies? I'm changing channel right now! This is manufactured reality TV almost of an abusive nature. What the hell are they thinking? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kephas4 Posted February 4, 2009 Report Share Posted February 4, 2009 ^ Well said, TeeAyBee. There was a (typically) sensationalist piece about it on BBC Breakfast yesterday morning. While the presenters were trying to work on a 'gender stereotyping' angle, their guest psychologist was consistently slamming the morality and point of making the programme at all. Figuring that anything drawing that much criticism must have something going for it, I gave it 10 minutes of attention before giving up. Gratuitous, unnecessary and hopefully not too damaging in the long term for the poor little blighters involved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soljey Posted February 4, 2009 Report Share Posted February 4, 2009 This is manufactured reality TV almost of an abusive nature. The same as I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here. ALL "reality TV" shows are manufactured. The producers want controversy, fighting, scandal, etc. So they put together people that they know won't all get on with one another. They're all as bad as each other - and bear little resemblance to "reality". In these days of 24-hour TV, the TV companies are stretched too thinly. These programmes are cheap and uncreative. And of course by having a piece about it, the BBC have fallen in to the trap by giving them publicity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pleepsie Posted February 4, 2009 Report Share Posted February 4, 2009 The BBC are almost as bad, they have 'Superheroes' showing on a Saturday morning. Each week one kid is kicked out of the contest, the misery and heartbreak are plain to see upon their little faces as they wait to find out who leaves, and most weeks tears flow. This type of programme is really mean Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trout Posted February 4, 2009 Report Share Posted February 4, 2009 A sad indictment of today's society. Saw advert and never in my mind thought I would stray near it while pluncking away on the 'troll! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sassermaet Posted February 10, 2009 Report Share Posted February 10, 2009 http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20090204/ten-channel-4-rapped-over-kids-alone-ser-ea4616c.html Looks like you weren't the only ones Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brawkirky Posted February 10, 2009 Report Share Posted February 10, 2009 Yeah I agree with some comments on here but at the same time I am allowing my children to watch this programme due to the fact it is showing all types of behaviour and after the programme my children actually really discussed and tried to figure out why the kids where acting like that. They where shocked by how forward and what language some of the kids used, they seemed to think it was what they hear around them and due to where they live! I on the whole dont like reality shows due to how they are edited but on the whole if they can be used to show the flaws in society then it is all good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trowie246 Posted February 10, 2009 Report Share Posted February 10, 2009 I haven't seen the pogramme but I saw it advertised and I've read the link above. This makes me so angry - what kind of mother would encourage her son to stay when he is saying he is hungry and wants to go home? Wasn't there a programme on a couple of years ago showing a very similar situation? Can't remember what it was called. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fjool Posted February 10, 2009 Report Share Posted February 10, 2009 ^ The kind of mother who is being paid for her child's participation, with a clause which says they get nothing if the child leaves early? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trowie246 Posted February 10, 2009 Report Share Posted February 10, 2009 I'm sorry, but someone who puts money before the welfare of their own child shouldn't be allowed to be a mother. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fjool Posted February 10, 2009 Report Share Posted February 10, 2009 Why are you sorry? I agree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trowie246 Posted February 10, 2009 Report Share Posted February 10, 2009 It something I always do - apologise when I get on my high horse, usually just incase I fall of and make myself look a complete neep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evil Inky Posted February 10, 2009 Report Share Posted February 10, 2009 I'm sorry, but someone who puts money before the welfare of their own child shouldn't be allowed to be a mother.I'm not defending this woman in any way, but what do you mean when you say "shouldn't be allowed to be a mother" ? That her children should be taken into care ? Or that she should be sterilised ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brawkirky Posted February 10, 2009 Report Share Posted February 10, 2009 No parent (less o the mothers as fathers are involved too) should put money before the welfare of a child. However Im sure that some of the parents on this show have maybe thought it would be good to show the child how much they actually do for them. These days then children seem to expect everything to be done for them and I know I do far to much for mine! By allowing them to watch this show they are seeing examples of their own behaviour (Sometimes) and how for want of a better word, how bad they are behaving. I firmly believe that children are made to grow up far to fast and there is a vast difference between my children and their cousins who live in a city. Give me a sheltered (to an extent) upbringing any day to what I have witnessed on the show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohanofNess Posted February 10, 2009 Report Share Posted February 10, 2009 brawkirky is right in a way, kids maybe do need to see how much they rely on their parents in their formative years. However, the parents shouldn't be benefitting financially for such a lesson being taught. On the other hand watching the behaviour of a gang of kids last night in Aberdeen throwing snow balls at a couple of old folk struggling to get along an icy path then some parents don't do nearly enough and letting the little ne'er do wells fend for themselves on island populated with hungry carnivorous creatures might be no bad thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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