An article I came across today detailed how Stephen Fry feels somewhat disillusioned with the current state of British television, and I have to agree with him! British television these days seem to be saturated with Joe Public programmes, where everyone and anyone can come along, make an arse of themselves or become a huge success, for the few minutes in between them wining and the next programme coming along.
There is the odd programme that I will follow avidly, Doctor who and Merlin strangely being two of them and the two Fry praised whilst claiming they were aimed solely at children, but beyond them there seems to be a significant lack of innovation or inspiration, with successful formats being recycled and repackaged for the nation to lap up again.
There is one thing worse than this dusting off of TV garbage and passing it off as a fresh show, and that is that we let it happen. Too many people seem content to accept and revel in these substandard shows time after time and until we as a nation decide to get up and stop feeding the problem, I fear I will still be complaining about this situation in 5 years time, as Britain's Got Talent tries to find contestants who haven't already appeared on a talent show.
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