Bored with the celebs

[wiseheart]

Warning: There will be bad words(TM) behind the tag.

No, seriously. I can't care less whether Sandra Bullock does have cellulitis or doesn't. I can't give a flying f*ck whom Heidi Klum shags. I'm utterly disinterested in the deadly boring (un)reality shows starring 3rd grade celebrities, like Wild Girls, Jungle Camp and other crap. I don't care whether Lothar Matthäus or Dieter Bohlen get their umpteenth wife, why idiotic middle-aged celebrity women believe that their 20-year-younger partners would want anything but money and a career boost from them (Ashton Kutcher anyone) or whether Claudia Effenberg takes back that boar of a husband or not.

So, why is it that whenever I switch on the telly (unless it's the Star Trek reruns on tele5), I always have to stumble over such shit. That, and the various incarnations of deadly boring CSI and NCIS, that is. Oh, and Criminal Minds. It seems as if all channels would have formed a conspiracy against the viewers, making sure that we won't have any escape.

At least there are the zoo reports on ARD and the regional channels. Even though those are re-runs, too. Nothing new of any value is being produced in these days.

Those of you who understand German, really should look up "Kalkofes Mattscheibe - Rekalked" on youTube. The man is hysterical. Unfortunately, you need to be quite fluent in German to understand him. Expressions like "diese bildungsresistenten Silikon-Wackeleinheiten" aren't for beginners.

Comments

[makamu]

*nods* If I watch telly at all these days, it's either Arte, 3sat or ZDFneo. Mostly, though, I have become an unofficial Brit and watch BBC shows on the Iplayer. Do you get any of the above in Hungary? Arte in particular is very good (and they also air quality tv series (foreign imports, mostly, because our dense public channels apparently missed that bandwagon entirely *grumbles*) on Thursdays.

And I will stop now because otherwise I will start ranting about the German film industry and their complete inability to recognise a competent actor until after Hollywood has pointed out their talent to them (Christoph Waltz being this issue's current poster boy...) *gets off soap box and hugs you*

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

We don't get any of the British channels; even the German ones only come in through our very own satellite dish, which only gets in the French version of Arte. *sighs* Tele5 is the only remotely tolerable private channel in these days. I'm looking forward to SchleFaZ tomorrow, i.e. "The Worst Movies of All Times", presented and commented by Oliver Kalkofe and Peter Rüttger. I mean, I don't particularly like those guys, they're rude and arrogant, but they're depressingly right about the telly. And Kalkofe can be very funny sometimes.

[sammydragoncat]

I can't stand "reality" shows either - why people watch them is beyond me. I also could care less about the private lives of celebrities. What goes on in their private lives should be kept private and should stay completely off of TV.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I couldn't agree more. Of course, some of them whoring out themselves to the media for a bit of attention doesn't help.

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Celebrities 'news' is so pointless - and just annoying (even bbc seems to report far more of it than needed, although the radio is better for that). Trying to think what is actually on tv here at the moment - there is the new musketeers series (which is okay), Sherlock, and Dr Who. Apart from that I end up watching quite a few quiz shows, which are fun in theri way; but there isn't really much on.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I actually gave "Enterprise" another chance, and you know what? As long as I could ignore that it's supposed to be Star Trek, I could even enjoy it... most of the time.

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

I saw Enterprise when it was being shown on tv here last year - it was quite fun (although all the Xindi arc plot got a bit dull).