Wednesday, September 10, 2003

Heard the one about the Irish reality TV show?

No, not the one with the contestants on a boat and the boat sinks. The one with celebrities (or at least the Irish sub-genus thereof) brought together to work on a farm. You can imagine the ridicule being heaped on the show. The show's website is actually pretty funny (almost certainly not intentionally). Note the dreadful wordplay (ejected contestants are turfed off), the profiles of the contestants (and thus an idea of what it takes to be celebrity in Ireland), and the fairly prominent role of pigs in the low-tech graphics -- perhaps showing how much Animal Farm has entered the popular culture as an image of the farm animal hierarchy. But we can't think of much else to say about this show. If you think the BBC TV licence is bad value for money....

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