Do you know who Charlie Brooker is yet? He is a genius but also a nasty, insidious man who slags everything off and gets paid for it. I find him despicable, but only because he is getting paid for what I should be doing. Almost everything the man says is (admittedly scripted) genius and he and I seem to have exactly the same vehement opinions on television so far (with Glee being the one exception).
If you don’t know – and you should – how his latest vehicle “You Have Been Watching” works, then let me be succinct: Charlie shows cleverly edited clips of appalling television shows and guest comedy panellists join in the slating whilst paying little more than lip service to a supposed quiz format. It’s not a great show but it is fun some of the time.
Tonight, though, we discovered that you can go to the Channel’s web site to find out when the television programmes are on that will be under scrutiny in the nest episode. Alarmingly, this concept appealed hugely to us. Then we got on to spotting the irony and laughed heartily at ourselves. We are now going to become part of the problem. The programme whose purpose is to slate off the worst television is encouraging us to watch full episodes of the poor programming so that we might have a more in-depth understanding of just how bad these programmes are. Ratings for bad television goes up...the need for “You Have Been Watching grows”...We become part of Charlie Brooker’s evil game-plan and part of the problem, not the solution.
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