[Z]

Haven't seen any of it but I find the whole culture of taking advantage of disadvantaged people for television to be morally bankrupt - another example being The Undateables. Nice idea in theory to try and help people with disabilities and social problems to try and find someone to be with; but it just comes across as mocking them and making light of their problems - I mean the title "The Undateables" is horribly offensive for starters.

[arista]

Originally Posted by Zee

Haven't seen any of it but I find the whole culture of taking advantage of disadvantaged people for television to be morally bankrupt - another example being The Undateables. Nice idea in theory to try and help people with disabilities and social problems to try and find someone to be with; but it just comes across as mocking them and making light of their problems - I mean the title "The Undateables" is horribly offensive for starters.

Yes but now Ch4HD are busy scouting other places (for More Docu's)
I hope they do one near you.

So you can give us a Smile

[Jezzy]

Originally Posted by Zee

Haven't seen any of it but I find the whole culture of taking advantage of disadvantaged people for television to be morally bankrupt - another example being The Undateables. Nice idea in theory to try and help people with disabilities and social problems to try and find someone to be with; but it just comes across as mocking them and making light of their problems - I mean the title "The Undateables" is horribly offensive for starters.

I agree, I think many people that watch it, watch it for its "Freak Show" value. There's a lot of this voyeuristic mentality prevalent now, depends how clever they are in justifying / marketing it unfortunately.

[Z]

Originally Posted by arista

Yes but now Ch4HD are busy scouting other places (for More Docu's)
I hope they do one near you.

So you can give us a Smile

do you think Channel 4 would want to mock me?

Originally Posted by Jezzy

I agree, I think many people that watch it, watch it for its "Freak Show" value. There's a lot of this voyeuristic mentality prevalent now, depends how clever they are in justifying / marketing it unfortunately.

Yeah this is spot on.