Agenda: Let's Face Reality Over This Torrent of Television Trivia ; As the X Factor Reaches Its Final This Saturday, It's Time for Television Producers to Draw a Line Under the Exploitations of 'Reality' Tv, Urges University Professor and Former Birmingham Poet Laureate Roshan Doug

Birmingham Post › December 15, 2007

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I can't remember who said that you can judge the moral or the ethical base of a nation by simply looking at its television - it is, after all, the window to the world. It's quite apt I think.

But I hope no one applies it to our country because I think, not only they but we too will be disappointed. When every other programme on primetime television is about cooking or DIY or a 'revealing' fly-on-the-wall documentary about vain social misfits talking about or engaged in some of the most mindless trivia, then you know you've got a problem.

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Agenda: Let's Face Reality Over This Torrent of Television Trivia ; As the X Factor Reaches Its Final This Saturday, It's Time for Television Producers to Draw a Line Under the Exploitations of 'Reality' Tv, Urges University Professor and Former Birmingham Poet Laureate Roshan Doug

And it goes deeper.

Take, for instance, The X Factor which reaches a finale on Saturday night. ITV's autumn jewel in the crown has been going strong in terms of popularity. And after all these years, it's still not showing any signs of waning.

So I'm no...

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