Popbitch reports: Channel 4 was set up in 1982 as a public serviced broadcaster "to offer a benchmark of quality and innovation". The channel says its "public service remit extends beyond the value we offer to the viewing public to our contribution to the strength and diversity of the British creative economy." This week, C4 proudly announced that it would be screening a Wankathon, a group masturbation session being held in London next month. Andrew MacKenzie, the channel's factual entertainment commissioning editor said, "We feel this is exactly the type of provocative and mischievous programming that Channel 4 should be making."Rumours that the chamber of the House of Commons has been hired for the occasion are unfounded, as is the rumour that Jonathan Ross would have been sitting in the Speaker's Chair...
I don't know if this is one of those reality TV shows where someone is ejected (yes, I said ejected) after each round, but I'd love to know the method of ejection.
A number of other jokes spring to mind, but let's leave it there...
No really it's too much. Is this a wind-up? We were eating dinner just here with Radio4 on - absolutely dreadful standup "comedy" - and I distinctly heard one of the "comics" say "f***ing", this before 7pm on R4. I remarked that I knew civilisation was over at that point. Then I log on here and read about this. I nearly weep. It is a wind-up isn't it?
ReplyDeleteNo really it's too much. Is this a wind-up? We were eating dinner just here with Radio4 on - absolutely dreadful standup "comedy" - and I distinctly heard one of the "comics" say "f***ing", this before 7pm on R4. I remarked that I knew civilisation was over at that point. Then I log on here and read about this. I nearly weep. It is a wind-up isn't it?
ReplyDelete"chamber of the House of Commons"
ReplyDeleteA mass debating centre if ever there was one to compete with the Berlaymont. Or is that burly-men tugging in Brussels
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I bet that most of the C4 executives who thought up this disgusting idea, took part in a pilot programmne and finding themselves "not up to scratch" opened it up to the general public.
ReplyDeleteHaving said that, C4 has an inexhaustible supply of low grade porn films for the contestants to watch, should they find it difficult to remain in the perpendicular position.
Anyway, I thought wank-ing was a town in China........
Anything to say about the Yougov tracking poll, that shows that Camerons approval rating is dropping like a stone since the Hooddie/EPP 'thing' Suppose you'll come out with your usuall sycophantic 'love that man' crap. Hang on channel 4 got another couple of w*****s for your programme, guess who
ReplyDeleteperhaps the show will air on the same day that tone is interviewed by Isp Yates of the Yard
ReplyDeleteThe event will be given an official send off at 8.30 in Admiralty House!
ReplyDeleteThis is something that really should be taken in hand.
ReplyDeleteIan there is a double plagiarism in this story of your. Why is it not attributed to the place from which you pinched it? Or are you more Archer than something of the Knight?
ReplyDeleteAnd I thought that TV could not get lower and more crass than Big Brother and Celebrity Love Island!
ReplyDeleteWhat next will C4 think up under "exactly the type of provocative and mischievous programming that Channel 4 should be making."?!
It doesn't make much difference to be honest, there have always been tossers on Channel 4. It's just most of the ones they've had before prefer to be locked in a studio for 12 weeks and shouted at by Davina McCall ;)
ReplyDeleteAnonymous at 10.36.Obviously your own onanistic activities have rendered you blind. Look at the first two words of the story.
ReplyDeletePopbitch reports...
The clue's there somewhere...
Ah yes, I'd heard that Channel 4 had commissioned a fly-on-the-wall documentary at UKIP headquarters.
ReplyDeleteIf you think this is funny, I despair for this country.
ReplyDeleteThis is probably where C4 got the idea from....
ReplyDeletehttp://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0720061cam1.html?link=rssfeed
I thought the BBC had the contract for all parliamentary coverage.
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