The future of TV?

[JesusA (imported)]

A web site to ponder:

Castrato Academy (http://angrychimp.blogspot.com/2005/03/ ... abuse.html)

[colin (imported)]

Unfortunately,

There are some parents who are sick enough to offer their children if something like this was true.

LOL

[docs (imported)]

And we thought the movie "Roller Ball" was outlandish.

TV executives are so hungry for big money that it will be only a matter of time before someone sponspors a state execution. The logic behind it will be that some money will be paid victim's heirs while the person executed will be able to grant a sum to the charity of his choice. The network will reap huge profits. Maybe a gun company could sponsor it if the killer used a gun; a knife company if death resulted by stabbing, and maybe an erectile enhanser if death occurred because of a rape. I mean these brilliant 30yo's TV executives would see the ratings go thru the roof.

Do you really think that I am kidding?

[caviman001 (imported)]

this comes as no supprise at the BBC. they charge a fortune for the tv licence and waste the cash

[Eunuchist (imported)]

A web site to ponder:

Castrato Academy (http://angrychimp.blogspot.com/2005/03/ ... abuse.html)

If castrati are ever to return it won't be that way. Besides, parents would have ltitle to do with it. The boys on their initiative would seek it done out of sight and perhaps present as natural castrati to the public. There are some around today and no one seem to bother too much about it anyway.

As wether this show is ever going to get aired in real - highly unlikely to me. A fiction is just that - a fiction.

[Paolo]

It's a SPOOF...FUNNY...NOT REAL...

Just in case you didn't realize.

[colin (imported)]

It's a SPOOF...FUNNY...NOT REAL...

Just in case you didn't realize.

It is actually a very clever spoof. The views he ascribed to the named people are so close to the sort of pretentious rubbish which they do spout that it is almost believable. Perhaps he should line them up for a spot on his Celebrity Euthanasia show - now there is an interesting idea. Who would you nominate?

LOL

[JesusA (imported)]

As one of my friends put it:

A very convincing spoof. After all, we have learned from shows like "Big Brother" or "Fear Factor" what people are willing to do for their fifteen minutes of fame.

I say a show like this would never be possible. People wouldn't allow it. They wouldn't want to watch it and certainly nobody would want to be in it.

And I say this with the same conviction as I would have said five years ago that a show like "Fear Factor" wouldn't be possible.

[Dayhunter (imported)]

If such a show existed it would not only get a sponsor it would be popular and be renewed. Remember there was a time when people packed lunches and took whole families to watch hangings. All the more fun if the "star" was castrated, drawn and quartered. Does anybody doubt that the stoning of a terrorist would draw a crowd.

[caviman001 (imported)]

If such a show existed it would not only get a sponsor it would be popular and be renewed. Remember there was a time when people packed lunches and took whole families to watch hangings. All the more fun if the "star" was castrated, drawn and quartered. Does anybody doubt that the stoning of a terrorist would draw a crowd.

and it would be the number 1 show in every country i bet