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Real TV show names/concepts that even TVGoHome would blush at

Started by Blumf, January 11, 2007, 08:58:17 PM

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Blumf

Had quick look but couldn't see anything like this...

Tourettes de France
10:00pm 11/01/07
Channel 4
QuoteKeith Allen travels to Paris on a double-decker bus with a bunch of teenagers who have Tourette syndrome
...
These guys make Gordon Ramsay look like a mother superior. ("Suck my t**s!" one of them shouts, apparently addressing Canterbury Cathedral.) And lest we miss anything, the outbursts are captioned on screen in big wobbly letters
...
the obscenely redubbed version of Cliff Richard's Summer Holiday (to which the whole programme is a kind of warped homage) will be hard to forget.

Spa of Embarrassing Illnesses
10:00pm 11/01/07
UKTV Style
QuoteBrand new reality show following eight Brits as they try to find cures for some embarrassing illnesses. Life at the Turkish spa gets fresh and raw, in more ways than one.

Ciarán2

There was sn episode of Trisha shown over Christmas. The description in RT said" "Update on the woman who claims she was told by a psychic horse to marry a stranger. Did she go through with it?"

rudi

Well, you wouldn't just trust any common or garden horse, would you, durrr...

Artemis

My Kids Ate My Penis
11.30pm 11/1/07
ITV1

Story of a man who suffers a devastating accident whilst gardening and in the panic ends up dousing his manhood in butter and breadcrumbs and serving it to his kids for dinner.

Mister Six

Funny though that was - and I did laugh - surely it misses the point to make something up?


Brutus Beefcake


Wilbur

BBC3 22nd. Coxhall  from the other place stars as an obnoxious cunt.

Blumf

Quote from: "iandredd, in a thread about that 'Tourettes de France ' program,"I saw this mentioned in that other thread and though it was a joke, this is a real program?!

Yep folks, that's the idea, real shows that seem to have been commissioned purely for their title or god awful concept. I'm pretty sure that things are getting worse as the abundance of digital channels struggle to fill air time with anything and desperately need to catch our attention.

No need to rush, but whenever you spot one of these shows please share it here (bonus points for telling us before it airs)

Quote from: "iandredd, in a thread about that 'Tourettes de France ' program,"I saw this mentioned in that other thread and though it was a joke, this is a real program?!

Reading about that Keith Allen show has made me realise that TV has hit an all time low.  I'm fucking appalled that this can be treated as a lightweight TV joke.


Shoulders?-Stomach!

The same people who do the captions for Celebrity Big Brother are responsible for new program ideas. We're so good at tellllllllly.

Emergency Lalla Ward Ten

The best example of titles-that-once-would-have-been-comedy-sketches-but-are-now-somehow-real-things was surely Celebrity Wife Swap?

Blumf

It's a sad thing that I don't bat an eyelid at 'Celeb Wife Swap' these days, however, if you'd have told me of it in 1990 I wouldn't have believed you.

That 'Spa of Embarrassing Illnesses' program is the one that really grabbed me, the title just brazenly shows off such a shallow and cynical thought process behind it's conception that it beggars belief. All it is missing is 'celebrity' in it's title, and I bet the producers were trying for it in the run up to production.

the midnight watch baboon

'House of Obsessive-Compulsives' wasn't as 'funny' as 'Shitting Over Channel 4's Commisiong Editor's Mother As He Watches' would've been.


'Okay'?

Cupid Stunt

Quote from: "Shoulders?-Stomach!"The same people who do the captions for Celebrity Big Brother are responsible for new program ideas. We're so good at tellllllllly.

What are "the captions for Celebrity Big Brother"?  Do you mean the subtitles?

(Edit:  oh, I get you now)

Sky Three is good for these.  Last night, "Inside Britain's Fattest Man".  I've also been enjoying seeing "Ross Kemp on Gangs" in the listings.  I'm hoping to see "This week: The Red Hand Gang" under it soon.

Shoulders?-Stomach!


lipsink

Can Dogs Smell Cancer?

Can Dogs Smell Cancer? is an in-depth telling of the cancer sniffer dog story, from the earliest anecdotal stories to the very latest scientific research exploring dogs' ability to detect disease.

I Love Being... Anorexic

Documentary about people that believe anorexia isn't a mental illness, it's a lifestyle choice, which focuses on two young women who use extreme starvation to get the `perfect body'

quadraspazzed

Ealier tonight on BBC 3

QuoteFat Boy to Slim

Teenager Jack Glassett travels to America in a bid to shed some pounds and soon discovers that without an operation to fit a gastric band, his morbid weight will kill him. As the government considers lowering the age for weight-loss surgery, this programme considers the dangers of it becoming the answer to childhood obesity.

Didn't watch it, and it may have been interesting(? - then again it was on 3), it's just the crapness of the title that caught my attention.

Cupid Stunt

Quote from: "Cupid Stunt"Sky Three is good for these.  Last night, "Inside Britain's Fattest Man".  I've also been enjoying seeing "Ross Kemp on Gangs" in the listings.  I'm hoping to see "This week: The Red Hand Gang" under it soon.

These are both on tonight!

Also BBC3 9pm - The Roadkill Chef.  Pioneering forager Fergus Drennan embarks on a challenge - organising a roadkill feast for the community of the Kent town of Sandwich.

Blumf

Ted Bundy: Natural Porn Killer
11:05pm - 12:05am 17/01/07
Channel 4

Sigh.......

Anon

Quote from: "Blumf"Ted Bundy: Natural Porn Killer
11:05pm - 12:05am 17/01/07
Channel 4

Sigh.......

Isn't that a repeat as well?  I'm sure I've seen that title (or at least something alarmingly close) in the schedules several months ago.  Either way, it's still an appalingly crass title for what is doubtlessly going to be one of those pseudo-docs that manages to be both bollock-achingly dull and utterly repulsive at the same time.

Shoulders?-Stomach!

I think it was originally shown at the same time as The Sperminator, about an American man who injected his own fresh sperm into women in order to help them have babies.

Dull? Tick. Repulsive? Tick.

purlieu

This is easily the most depressing thread I've ever read on a message board.  Ever.
Although, to be fair, I could picture stuff even like "The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off" on The Day Today.


cleverjake

What's Eating Victoria Beckham? On Five now.


Fingers crossed for 'a leopard'.

Mister Cairo

QuoteWhat's Eating Victoria Beckham? On Five now

Surely David?

biniput

"the boy who's skin fell off"  was in fact extremely good.  very good indeed.

The title was in no way what so ever worthy of the content mostly provided by the person on whom it centred.