From: cgbrannigan@ntlworld.com 
  
 "mo"  wrote in message 
 news:d93oup$mdm$1@news7.svr.pol.co.uk... 
 >> Writing about "Big Brother" etc is just going to look horribly dated in 
 >> ten years time. 
 > 
 > I completely agree with that, as all of the reality sh1te is very much Of 
 > The Moment and will hopefully GO AWAY pretty soon.  It's a bit like the 
 > scene with The Beatles in The Chase.  I'm sure it looked great in 64/65, 
 > but 
 > now it justs looks dreadful..... 
  
 you can't say reality Tv is a fad and of the moment anymore...MTV's been 
 doing it since 1990, FOX in the Us has been doing it since the 80's and 
 everyone in the world has been doing it en masse for at least the last 6 
 years. 
  
 with the exception of CSI and Friends reality TV show have been the higest 
 rated consistantly over the last 6 years with shows like Survivor, 
 Apprentice, Big Brother and American Idol.  Here in the UK it's soaps which 
 are the exception and when channel 4 and ITV are getting about 10million 
 viewers combined for their head to head reality shows, I'm a Celeb, Pop 
 Idol, etc etc are all hitting double digits in the ratings I dont see how 
 anyone can claim it to be a fad.  It's here and it'll be staying for a 
 while...hell if you think Big Brother will look dated on DR Who you'r way 
 off considering the show is on it about 50 countries and they have a 
 contract with C4 here in the uk till about 2011. 
  
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