Reality TV, it’s so low-brow….
I’m proud to admit I’ve never watched an entire episode of Big Brother or I’m a Celebrity; and yet, Space Cadets is excellent!
Channel 4 has taken a tired format which has recently made loyal supporters of reality TV question whether I’m a Celebrity can manage another series, and reinvigorated it with a great and genuine way of making those involved the object of derision. “Chessington World of Adventures times ten thousand”, that’s how one of the ‘cadets’ described the idea of going into space. Said by someone who is genuinely going to space, it is slightly naive, but said by someone who is the victim of the greatest practical joke ever on TV it becomes hilarious.
If you aren’t watching it, it’s worth tuning in!
December 8th, 2005 at 10:44 pm
That made me laugh out loud!
We’ve agreed in my house that we’re allowed to make fun of them, despite a sickening feeling that we wouldn’t do much better.
Well, maybe not the Chessington comment.
December 10th, 2005 at 8:06 pm
I must say it is jolly funny!
December 12th, 2005 at 9:48 pm
The whole show is a hoax. All the cadets are actors - check out the proof. It is the biggest hoax in TV history, but the joke is on the public not the cadets.
December 14th, 2005 at 1:50 am
They may all be actors, but I don’t see any value whatsoever in “hoaxing” the public? If it does turn out to be a “hoax” on the public (however that might ‘work’) I imagine I (like many others) will just switch channels and think, “well that was pretty rubbish”.
Plus, I am getting pretty sick and tired of the whole “…they think they’re in Russia, but in fact they’re only 10 minutes from Ipswich” routine, and the way today they repeated the last 15 minutes of monday’s episode in the first 15 minutes of today’s one. hmmm…