Poverty porn……love it or hate it?

In the Mail today, someone called Angela Brick, who made her career producing/commissioning all those reality shows that involve sex. 'Married at first sight' and worse.

She has rather belatedly had her Road to Damascus moment and realises how tawdry, manipulative and generally unpleasant these shows are and how it damaged the contestants, many of whom were chosen because they were already thoroughly mixed up.

However there was one point, which is in her favour, that she didn't make and that is that these shows would not have been made if there had not been thousands if not millions of people ready to watch them.

I know all GN members are sueaky clean and never watch these demeaning reality programmes. I for one, have never watched one, but plenty of people do.

I am not against reality programmes. There are plenty that are enjoyable and do not demean vulnerable people. I love Location,Location, Location for one, as well as University Challenge. DD and I also appeared in one many years ago, The Great Antiue Hunt with Gilly Goulden, We didn't win, but somewhere I have a singularly ugly commemorative plate, although it may have gone to a charity shop when we moved.

Reality shows and posts leave me cold and the celebrity ones like Katie Price are even worse.

Four dogs Cossy Lucky you! I don't even have one.

MT62

Oh there is a lot of that stuff on YouTube with that kind of content.
It’s becoming quite boring.
I do follow a guy ‘operation Sicily’ he’s doing up a derelict villa.

That's a bit different though MT62, isn't it ?
Someone doing up a derelict villa sounds quite interesting and very constructive.
I'd rather watch paint dry than watch what is being described in the Post.

I'm a nosy enough person that I enjoy seeing how others live.
Not fhe rich and famous, just normal, everyday people.

I wouldn't parficularly go out of my way to watch people living like pigs, though.

I enjoyed watching the Queen of Cream in The House Doctor.

I would stick pins in my eyes before I watched programmes like this

AGAA4

I don't watch much reality TV but did watch a few How clean is your house.
I'm certainly not the greatest at housework but how can people be that dirty. The toilets! Yuk!!

Ah so my floors may not be the cleanest, with four dogs in our house currently, but our bathrooms and kitchen sparkle! Cleaning the loo is so quick!

I don't watch much reality TV but did watch a few How clean is your house.
I'm certainly not the greatest at housework but how can people be that dirty. The toilets! Yuk!!

I don’t know what this programme is but would certainly not watch it. I did once watch one episode of a programme - it could have been the Rich House, Poor House that you mentioned Cossy - the basic premise being that a rich person goes to stay with a poor person or vice versa and there is plenty of emoting and getting in a tizz when the rich person is with the poor one. With mouth dropping open at having to shop in Lidl and buy the cheapest pasta etc.
Puerile.

Oh there is a lot of that stuff on YouTube with that kind of content.
It’s becoming quite boring.
I do follow a guy ‘operation Sicily’ he’s doing up a derelict villa.

Bit like Katie Price aka Jordan and her “Mucky Mansion” 🤮🤮

The only one I watched with gusto, was “how clean is your house” haha Sometimes ( but not always) it made me feel better about my own poor housecleaning!

I feel quite uncomfortable watching “reality” TV.

Some is clearly totally contrived, some feels quite voyeuristic, and I loathe the shows “Rich House, Poor House” etc etc. I think that these shows are just awful!

It is profoundly distasteful. I wouldn't waste time watching it.

I have enough in my own life without watching other people's.