BBC Switch is the brand for BBC content aimed at UK teenagers. The brand launched on Saturday 20 October 2007 on BBC Two. It includes a block of television programmes on BBC Two, an online portal, and programming on the BBC’s youth radio station, BBC Radio 1
It has come to my attention that the BBC Switch Guest List has twice sent out emails in the last few weeks, both emails include this message:
SOUND
– Do you love music?
– Do you like annoying your mum and dad?
– Do you want to get on TV?Then get involved in our brand new Grimshaw Files challenge – ‘songs to annoy your parents with’.
Here’s what we want you to do…
All you need is a video camera, a bedroom, a banging track, and a parent (or guardian):
1: Shut your bedroom door
2: Turn on your video camera
3: Say the name of the song and artist into the camera
4: Stick that track on really really loud
5: Wait for your mum or dad
[6: And video the ensuing argument between you and your parents]*Please apply now to take part or for more information.
Get sending them in now for your chance to win a prize.
* I added number six because although the action is implied it isn’t clearly stated, even though the intent is implicit. So let me ask you folks a couple of quick questions.
1. Is the BBC being a responsible family broadcaster in inciting domestic disputes between parents and their offspring?
2. Or have the BBC ‘Youf’ programmers/editors/managers completely and utterly lost the plot?
Perhaps they are trying to be like America and show as much shite as possible on the air. “Reality Shows” are very popular here and are a load of crap.
Well it had to be Nick Grimshaw…
Well, it doesn’t hurt that he’s angst and sexy, which, for me, helps sway my decision. I like his voice- very mellow.
S. Le, the thing is that the scenario that BBC Switch are creating isn’t reality. It’s a series of manufactured arguments, domestic disputes created explicitly for the camera, parents goaded in to reacting just for the sake of ratings.
Soupy, aye, scraping the bottom of the barrel.
Maegan, we should explain to everyone else that we’re continuing a conversation here from your blog. 🙂
Would never have worked in our house, for some bizarre reason my parents always knew when I was deliberately baiting them (to this day I’ve no idea how) and so ignored me entirely. All I’d have videoed is an hour of me getting more and more pissed off while my parents smirked to each other downstairs. Sounds a bit crap to me, I mean how many times can parents getting hacked off and coming in to tell someone to turndown the music be entertaining?
The so-called reality shows in America are also very contrived. Every time I think they can’t get any worse, they do. Nice to know there is crap television on both sides of the Atlantic. Actually not nice. Sad actually!