Ship of Fools: What's your favourite Reality TV show?

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Posted by Spike (# 36) on :

Big Brother? I'm a Celebrity ...? Dancing on Ice? Any more? Which is it to be?

Posted by The Midge (# 2398) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Spike:
Big Brother? I'm a Celebrity ...? Dancing on Ice? Any more? Which is it to be?

Wife Swap when they put a fundamentalist creationist with a Dawkinite atheist.

Let me not to the ******** of true minds. Admit impediments. - William Shakespeare

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Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on :

quote:
Originally posted by The Midge:

quote:
Originally posted by Spike:
Big Brother? I'm a Celebrity ...? Dancing on Ice? Any more? Which is it to be?
Wife Swap when they put a fundamentalist creationist with a Dawkinite atheist.

Would that not have been somewhat predictable?

Stating the bleedin' obvious since AN1*

*AN - Anno Navis, Year of the Ship.

Posted by The Midge (# 2398) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider:

quote:
Originally posted by The Midge:

quote:
Originally posted by Spike:
Big Brother? I'm a Celebrity ...? Dancing on Ice? Any more? Which is it to be?
Wife Swap when they put a fundamentalist creationist with a Dawkinite atheist.
Would that not have been somewhat predictable?

Stating the bleedin' obvious since AN1*

*AN - Anno Navis, Year of the Ship.

Predicable is as predictable does.

Posted by Mere Nick (# 11827) on :

Hoarders, but it creeps me out in just a few minutes.

And Happy always was it for that son - Whose father for his hoarding went to hell - William Shakespeare

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Posted by Anglican't (# 15292) on :

The first series of 'Bad Lads Army' which featured a bunch of young men who might go off the rails going through 1950s-style National Service. It was quite informative and you could see how the experience was character building.

The series then went off the rails a bit.

Always remember to pillage BEFORE you burn - Anon

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Posted by Kittyville (# 16106) on :

"My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding" and all spin offs thereof.

Any programme containing the immortal line "Motor oil will give you a helluva tan" has got to be worth a watch.

Posted by Cthulhu (# 16186) on :

I ENJOY ONE BORN EVERY MINUTE. IT GIVES ME AN APPETITE.

Posted by Yangtze (# 4965) on :

Great British Bake Off.

Or possibly Maestro.

Give a man a cake and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to bake a cake, and he will coat the kitchen in flour and sit in a sofa eating cake for the rest of the day.

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Posted by Anyuta (# 14692) on :

Yard Crashers. I keep hopping to run into them on one of my visits to the home improvement store.. my yard could use a crash in the worst way! of course, I'd settle for the ones who re-do kitchens or bathrooms or.. well, pretty much any part of my house.

Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend. -
Alan Bradley

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Posted by agrgurich (# 5724) on :

Many favorites, but best of all right now is Dancing With the Stars.

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know. - Lord Byron

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Posted by ChaliceGirl (# 13656) on :

Hoarders

Amazing Race

Wife Swap

Toddlers and Tiaras

My Strange Addiction

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring. - Chuck Palahniuk

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Posted by Lyda*Rose (# 4544) on :

Recently, The First 48 Hours, a show where they follow various American homicide units in solving (or not) murders. No re-creations. They don't only show successful investigations. It seems like the realest of reality shows.

And next week I look forward to this season's Worst Cook in America. The trailers have been fun. Bobby Flay asks the whole group of contestants, "How many of you have set a fire in the kitchen?". One woman admits to setting fire to instant rice- in water. [Big Grin]

Posted by Lyda*Rose (# 4544) on :

Second oops!:

quote:
God sends meat, and the Devil sends cooks.—John Taylor

Posted by Mark Betts (# 17074) on :

IACGMOOH!! P*** P*** P***!!

Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it. - P*** John Paul II

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IN OTHER WORDS READ THE THREAD AT THE TOP OF THE DAMN BOARD, thankyou.

Doublethink
P u r g a t o r y H o s t

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Posted by deano (# 12063) on :

The Apprentice.

Love it (the UK version, and not the junior one). Can’t wait for the next one to start. It’s not about business of course, and it makes me want to buy a shotgun and shoot most of the candidates in the face, but it is great entertainment… especially when there’s a double firing!!!

Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it. - P*** John Paul II

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IN OTHER WORDS READ THE THREAD AT THE TOP OF THE DAMN BOARD, thankyou.

Doublethink
P u r g a t o r y H o s t

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Posted by Golden Key (# 1468) on :

I've liked a variety of PBS reality shows: "Victorian House", "Edwardian House", "Prairie House" (?). I currently like "Marketplace Warriors", in which antiques hunters go to outdoor markets with assignments to find certain kinds of things.

I also watch Chef Ramsey's various shows: prefer "Master Chef", 'cause they're regular people and not usually too full of themselves; "Hell's Kitchen" is my next favorite.

And now a word from our epigrammist:

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11b. Latin Epigram

Tres infelices in mundo dicimus esse:
Infelix qui pauca sapit spernitque doceri;
Infelix qui multa sapit spernitque docere;
Infelix qui sancta docet si vivat inique.

Item 11b, LATIN EPIGRAM: FOOTNOTE

1 We say there are three [kinds of] unfruitful [people] in the world: / [He is] unfruitful who knows little and refuses to be taught; / [He is] unfruitful who knows much and refuses to teach; / [He is] unfruitful who teaches ******** but lives wickedly

Item 11b, LATIN EPIGRAM: EXPLANATORY NOTE

4 sancta. In many other versions of this proverb, the word is recta, “right” or “righteousness.” The alteration to sancta may direct the criticism more specifically towards morally corrupt clergy rather than teachers in general. The last line of the Latin is followed by a drawing of a fish and a flower; there is no other explicit or colophon.

Posted by IconiumBound (# 754) on :

Pawn Stars by several measures; one, it doesn't have the usual timed commercial breaks so it's something to watch while other channels have commercials; two, it's like Antique Roadshow with real prices. "That autographed picture of Abraham Lincoln is worth $5000. I'll give you $150".

Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it. - P*** John Paul II

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IN OTHER WORDS READ THE THREAD AT THE TOP OF THE DAMN BOARD, thankyou.

Doublethink
P u r g a t o r y H o s t

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Posted by tomcoop (# 17670) on :

As of this moment, my favorites are:
Dancing With The Stars
The Amazing Race
Hell's Kitchen

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Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on :

I like the national news.

Posted by Chorister (# 473) on :

I like documentaries, much more realistic than the deliberately engineered 'reality' shows. The recent series on BBC 3, about the daily lives of conjoined twins, was exceptional.

Posted by L'organist (# 17338) on :

That'll Teach 'Em
which were reality documentary programmes made a few years ago, taking 30 16 year olds and putting them in a 1950s grammar school, then another 30 in a secondary modern.

The "grammar school" children sat their first test and were flummoxed - and then crushed to be told they were questions from a 1950 11+ exam, not the O Level they'd been told...dumbing down, anyone?

The "secondary modern" children who, for the most part, felt their comprehensive education was pretty useless flourished with the more practical elements of the secondary modern syllabus - and they loved it, too. One boy even got an apprenticeship out of it!

Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :

The only two reality shows I watch with any commitment are "RuPaul's Drag Race" (sort of "Top Model" for drag queens) and "Top Chef."

Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :

I detest reality shows, but I do have a question: Both the Chappelle Show Trading Spouses and the original Wife Swap(UK) debuted in 2003. Which was first, anyone know? The Chappelle version was 9 April, but I do not know their lead time.

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