Skint (New Docu) Ch4HD Monday 9pm

[arista]

"Provocative and revealing documentary stories
of how people survive without work"

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/skint

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"Dean used to work at the steelworks in Scunthorpe,
but now he, his wife and their seven children
and stepchildren get by on benefits.
Dean is a guide to his world, where being out
of work is nothing out of the ordinary, where
people do what they can to survive and
where keeping your kids on the straight
and narrow is a challenge.
On Dean's estate, the film follows the shoplifter
who sells stolen deodorant on the cheap
and a 15-year-old boy who has been excluded
from seven different schools.
For them and many others
across the country,
this is what it means to be skint."





Feck me its a real life Shamless

[Kizzy]

Really looking forward to this, will get the mail readers foaming no doubt haha!

[InOne]

It will just end up like all the other documentaries about Council Estates.

[arista]

Really looking forward to this, will get the mail readers foaming no doubt haha!


Yes Criminal in it
It may go Front Page Outrage

[Kizzy]

Depends on what your definition of a criminal is... there's some front page stats on expenses thieves today, doesn't have the same ring to it as 'benefit scrounger' or 'council scum' though does it?
As with most fly on the wall documentaries it will be warts and all with any luck, so all us dirty voyeurs will get to stick our noses in the festering sore that is inner city living in the UK and pretend we are morally superior for an hour.

[arista]

Depends on what your definition of a criminal is... there's some front page stats on expenses thieves today, doesn't have the same ring to it as 'benefit scrounger' or 'council scum' though does it?
As with most fly on the wall documentaries it will be warts and all with any luck, so all us dirty voyeurs will get to stick our noses in the festering sore that is inner city living in the UK and pretend we are morally superior for an hour.



Sure there are Criminals everyplace.

It will make a change
and 3 one hours on Ch4HD

[Scunthorpetelegraph]

With just hours to go before Skint is aired on channel 4, we would love to hear your reaction to the show. Please email viewpoint@scunthorpetelegraph.co.uk or visit the following link -

http://www.thisisscunthorpe.co.uk/Skint-programme-Scunthorpe-screened-tonight-TV/story-18971074-detail/story.html#axzz2TAtaClRQ

[arista]

With just hours to go before Skint is aired on channel 4, we would love to hear your reaction to the show. Please email viewpoint@scunthorpetelegraph.co.uk or visit the following link -

http://www.thisisscunthorpe.co.uk/Skint-programme-Scunthorpe-screened-tonight-TV/story-18971074-detail/story.html#axzz2TAtaClRQ



Yes I hope some do send Emails
to your Local paper

I Expect the Daily Mail to get Angry

[arista]

9PM Tonight
Ch4 and Ch4HD

[arista]

On Now

[GiRTh]

They've set the scene in the first ten minutes with 17 kids living in one house LMAO. These guys are hilarious.

[arista]

I feel sorry for that Mother
of conor

[Lee.]

Well that was depressing

[Vanessa]

I'm watching this on channel 4+1.

[HD]

Watching on +1, it's actually quite sad... :/

[Vanessa]

It's really sad. These people are really struggling. I wish i could help. :(

[Kizzy]

Not as good as the other one that was on not so long back. The voiceover is really annoying too.

[arista]

Not as good as the other one that was on not so long back. The voiceover is really annoying too.



Yes the Voiceover problem
maybe a lady would have been better

[GiRTh]

Those people were extremes. Definitely not indicative of the unemployed. The kid who was violent and abusive acted like he relished the camera on him. I wonder if he's that 'full on' all the time. I felt sorry for his mother but doubt how much of his behaviour was for the cameras.

C4 have struck gold with this show. The reviews have been hilarious so far and it'll certainly get middle England talking. Cant wait for the rest of the series

[arista]

Girth Great Points.

[Vanessa]

I felt so sorry for the drug addicted lady. I hope she gets the help she needs. She's still young and can turn her life around. :(

[InOne]

Channel 4 are really churning out any old tosh these days. I knew exactly what to expect though, they pretty much filled all the stereotypes there is.

[lostalex]

I watched it. And people say Americans are trash because of Honey Boo Boo? This show has far more trash than the Honey Boo Boo show.

That being said, I still enjoyed the show. I found it very interesting and a bit sad. I did empathize with some of the characters.

[Josy]

This is basically the English version of The Scheme

[Shaun]

'characters' lol

I imagine the 17 children thing will be picked up on by the tabloids (and probably...rightly so), but this is basically what 75% of people I know back home have to do.

[Jack_]

http://www.thisisscunthorpe.co.uk/Skint-programme-Scunthorpe-screened-tonight-TV/story-18971074-detail/story.html#axzz2TAtaClRQ

That's a dodgy domain name :joker:

[arista]

That's a dodgy domain name :joker:

Why Jack

[arista]

On Now

[Jamie.]

Guys... seriously don't pity the town. This is my home town and I am living here now. My mum is friends with someone who knows that Dean guy and apparently they were paid a bit of money to milk it.

And as for the Connor, apparently he was arrested recently.

Scunthorpe is not like that at all, it is a great town and this show puts a bad light on an okay town.

Channel 4 should be ashamed.

[GiRTh]

Forgot this was on. Thank god its on 4OD

[Kizzy]

Thanks for your comment, I think they were paid too, I also think it is a government initiative as they own C4 to use this programme to demonize all those welfare dependent those on DLA specifically.
You are right I think they have been set up like fish in a barrel to be investigated during to course of the series.
I am not saying for one minute that fraud is right, it isn't. I just feel this programme devisive.

[arista]

The Final episode
on at 9PM tonight

[GiRTh]

Is everyone from Scunthorpe a drunk or drug addict? The locals must be furious. this show is very negative.

[Jamie.]

Check out this article:
http://www.scunthorpetelegraph.co.uk/Skint-Petition-letter-PM/story-19169872-detail/story.html

and also this one:
http://www.scunthorpetelegraph.co.uk/Skint-Prime-Minister-s-support/story-19169868-detail/story.html#

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It would be great for everyone on TiBB to back our town and back all of the planned campaigns. :)

[Josy]

Is everyone from Scunthorpe a drunk or drug addict? The locals must be furious. this show is very negative.

They done the same with The Scheme (this scottish show just like this) focused on all the addicts, alcoholics etc and never bothered filming any of the decent people that have ended up on benefits.

People like the girl that was shoplifting/prostituting herself can't remember her name really piss me off though, blaming the shoplifting for her losing her kids and failing to point out that her injecting smack probably played the biggest part in it, they are too willing to blame things on other people, their upbringing, surroundings etc well that's all bollocks IMO, they made the choices that have lead to them being in those circumstances, they are responsible for the way their life ends up, they need to suck it up, stop going through life acting like a victim and take control.

[King Gizzard]

one of the most stereotypical shows I've ever seen, and not helping the matter by glorying the individuals who take part in it

[Kizzy]

The story of the lass on methadone who was in care all her life, whos parents were addicts too was heartbreaking. I hope she gets out of there and manages to stay clean for her little lad.

[GiRTh]

They done the same with The Scheme (this scottish show just like this) focused on all the addicts, alcoholics etc and never bothered filming any of the decent people that have ended up on benefits.

People like the girl that was shoplifting/prostituting herself can't remember her name really piss me off though, blaming the shoplifting for her losing her kids and failing to point out that her injecting smack probably played the biggest part in it, they are too willing to blame things on other people, their upbringing, surroundings etc well that's all bollocks IMO, they made the choices that have lead to them being in those circumstances, they are responsible for the way their life ends up, they need to suck it up, stop going through life acting like a victim and take control.:worship:
They did a similar show on Nottingham in the early 90's. There was a lot of fuss in the city about how negatively they showed us.