Beating A Dead Horse
Yowzah! We can use some of that money, but this stuff gets annoying quickly!
It’s not bad enough that, after the writer’s strike, many decent and better programs were cancelled, now the mainstream television networks are making us go into game show hell.
Yes, because the CBS network can’t get it together, the incidences of ‘The Price Is Right’ have gone from once a season, to once a week. NBC, not doing well for quite some time, manages to annoy with multiple weeknight forays into the land of ‘Deal or No Deal’. This is similar to the battering we once got on ABC with Regis and ‘Millionaire’.
What is it about these programs that makes the average viewer tune in? Can any of the viewing audience truly say that they identify with these contestants that seem so much less than intelligent and so much more vocal than they ought to be? Do you know anyone, in daily life, that gets so excited when being introduced to the group? Anyone is going to go a little haywire when informed they have just won a huge sum of money - but until the time that announcement is made, a little more decorum is called for. Perhaps some large men in all white uniforms, with jackets that have extra long sleeves, and tie in the back, would help. I would personally love to see one of these vociferous boneheads carried off to ‘Happy Acres” as their grand prize!
Each one of these programs is fine in small, metered amounts. When it becomes a replacement for quality programming, or, just possibly, anything excluding screaming contestants and a jocular host that simply likes the sound of his voice too much, it is time to shoot the television. Just kidding!
No, what it means is that it is time to check out alternate programming. This can be anything from a great documentary on PBS to a replay of a Bond movie on a movie channel.
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Tags: the price is right, deal or no deal, who wants to be a millionaire, network programming, game show hell, contestant cretins
