April 09, 2004
Popstars live…dead
More and more, reality television is starting to match the truth of a good percentage of it’s viewers’ lives by being not only uninteresting but also unpopular.
Advertisers keep pumping money into free-to-air television enabling the networks to blunder around pumping out zombie show after zombie show for the tired, bored masses.
Ausculture.com suggests that perhaps a major network should try producing a real zombie show, with zombies in it. Perhaps rename “Home & Away” to “Dead & Alive,” you get the idea.
At any rate, Channel Seven’s “Popstars Live” show hasn’t been the ratings bonanza that seven expected it to be and the rest of us expected it not to be.
The shows lack of success was blamed, by some, on the niceness of the judges. It seems the new, improved, nastier judges haven’t made an iota of difference to the ratings and “Popstars Live” has finally been moved to Saturday nights. One might argue the perfect timeslot for the demographic that Seven would likely reach with the show.
What replaces Popstars Live? Well, still thinking along the reality television lines Seven is replacing it with a wildlife documentary. Meaning that those people that do not have “National Geographic” or the “Discovery Channel” or “Animal Planet” on subscriber television services will be able to get a rare look at nature when they feel the need.
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