Channel 4 News Story hilariously inappropriate advert on the channel4 news site

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Saw on Channel4 this morning watching Popworld, the countdown begins!

oh the excitment!



you can see the full animation video on youtube here

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Hope you had a fantastic holiday and good New Year! My main New Year's resolution is to be more organised! I clearly have broken it already as this is my first post of the year! doh

This years Celebrity Big Brother is way not as good as last years one and it is disappointing :(
I do think its disgraceful the treatment of Shilpa Shetty who is a Bollywood star and other female members in the house are bullying her and ganging up on her. This has started to become a huge political issue and the media is loving it. This is the bbc story here. I am not 100% convinced it is racism against her, but I am white and not Indian so maybe I don't recognise it. I think it racial undertones in the bullying but I don't think its full on racism, like I am not convinced they are bullying her because of her 'race'. But Shilpa is very calm and serene and takes everything thrown at her and tries not to fall out with anyone.

But here is the problem. In the Big Brother rules for nearly every country in the world you are not allowed to use physical violence or attack a house mate. In America someone was thrown out of the house for threatening someone with a knife from the kitchen years ago. But is there a difference between arguing and bitching and falling out with people and this? I think this is full on bullying and some action needs to be taken. If Shilpa was threatened with a knife or hit then action would be taken!

The production team who make Big Brother in the UK change every year but the one who made this CBB and last years BB are dreadful and I hope they never use any of them again. Last BB in the Summer they were totally inventing twists and turns that annoyed the public and ruined the show and they have done it again. They have not taken any action on this subject, dispute people emailing them and complaining and saying this is not on. Now the media watchdog has received thousands of complaints and I think the makers are on very very dodgy ground. They have a duty of care for every member in the house. I think there will be some action or changes in the next 24 hours because the audience is riled and they are just covering it up and annoying it. I think the worst thing about it, is that the presenters of the shows just go along with it and don't question it.

If they say that a new rule is that you could not bully or verbally abuse a house mate, it could cause problems in the future, I mean what is the line between argument and abuse? This is bullying and its a group of girls against her and its nasty. Actually the worst thing is not the presenters, its that the person who say they are Shilpas friends and its so disgraceful and awful in the house, do not come out and stand up for her at the time she needs it!

There is an online petition going on this subject that is being widely publicised.
its:- here

When writing this post its currently at 11672 signatures

Its hideous TV to watch someone being attacked and abused by a group of people against them. Its upsetting and no punishment comes to those who do it :(
I try to see the other side on every subject and I can honestly sat that Shilpa is not 100% innocent, but you know she is not as bad as half the people in there.

I realised last Summer that Channel4 will destroy Big Brother all by themselves :(
Sending in Jade and her skanky family? Worst mistake ever!

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ooh tonights BB is so exciting! Anyone out of the 11 up could go tonight! This is the first week where l honestly don't know who is going tonight!

I am not watching it right now live and recording it for later, so going to turn off my phone now so l can't get spoilers before it happens! l need suspense!

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Tonight has so much on TV in the UK. It's the Semi finals of the Eurovision Song Contest and only the most fabulous countries go through to the final on Saturday. Countries in the top 10 of last year's final and France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom automatically go through to the final. (The 4 countries because they basically fund the whole thing every year!).

Tonight is the penultimate episode of this seasons ER and it always amazes me that they start showing it in January with a 4 month delay behind America and then at the end of the season we are one week behind America!

Also its the launch of this years Big Brother, the 7th series. I love Big Brother and I am not afraid to admit it. I look forwards to it so much and then hate everyone in the first week and then come to love and hate various people. It gives me something during the Summer! Some people like the show and some people hate that but what annoys me is the sort of 'looking down' on the show and people who watch it, especially in the media. There is a total hypocrisy about it!

After about the 2nd series some of the newspapers started being "anti bb" papers but basically wrote the same things as the pro bb papers but they had a negative spin! eg "someone got kicked out" turns into "we really hate bb and its so evil, but someone got kicked out, can you believe it?" I predict I will see a story in every single UK newspaper about bb during the series and also on probably every UK news channel/show. If its such trash and so crap, then why is it reported on and why are the shocks and scandals massive stories? They are just normal people being filmed! Big Brother sells! Newspapers who write about the show have their circulation rates go up by 25% at least during the Summer (which is normally a really slow news time). The tabloids and celebrity magazines just have constant stories everyday. People watch Big Brother (who like it or they might dip in and out of it every so often) watch the show, and then discuss it with friends and then buy all the scandalous news stories that come up! Its a great mutual topic to discuss with other people!

Its not a very serious series and the people taking part in it are fools if they think they will become celebrities and world famous. I bet half of them vanish after one month of the show! They entertain me for that moment in time, but can they go from that to acting/singing/entertaining/presenting? the history of previous contestants says mostly not!

I do feel sorry for the people who hate it and try to avoid it! Its basically impossible to avoid! But its not a TV shows fault if its in all the media and all these stories are going on! The media print that stuff because it sells. If no one watched the show and it was unpopular, then it wouldn't be so prominent in the media! I see it as just a soap that goes on during the summer and it probably is trashy. But trashy programmes get viewers, why can people not watch them? Does everything have to be some upper class high brow affair? I find highbrow stuff mostly boring with people talking about crap they know nothing about!

So I'm gonna watch it and you cant stop me!
and I am sure unless its a really awful series I will watch till August!
and I cant wait till tonight! oh the excitement

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