Do you have it where you're from?
It's basically people being filmed watching tv and commenting. There are about 6 core families, couples, flatmates who are filmed.
Weirdly in the UK they've become celebrities after a fashion!
Never heard of it
It sounds dumb
We have plenty of stupid reality shows in The States though...Housewives, Kardashians, Weight Loss shows
Not very good viewing
Too many, imo. I've always questioned their popularity. Although, I do like a scant few, like Dual Survival for instance, which I think is very informative as well as entertaining.
shareI like the survival ones..those are fun and a bit informational, though im certain i still cant light a fire with sticks and rocks even after seeing it done dozens of times!
The domestic, yappy-feelsy ones are way beyond my pain threshold
Seems like Mr. Gilbey fits right into the mold of most people in these shows.
Throwing a TV and choking his ex.
No wonder he's so popular.
That's what made me think of it!
He came across as a lovable Cockney geezer, but in reality...😬
They do all seem to be very happy and smiling.
I guess I would too if I'm being paid to watch TV and make comments.
Do they ever have guests over?
I may have to watch one of these episodes. I just don't get it right now.
How long as this been going on?
Also a lot of the contributors are typical couch potato types. I watched 10 mins of a show tonight and I thought if anyone outside the UK watches this they'd think we were all big fat fatties who watch tv all day!
shareI think you were right in saying that those outside the UK would think that.
Until I saw what Mina said about an American version of this show.
I had never heard of it.
When I looked at it up it looks our version has a higher rating.
Not that it's better but that we like these shows more.
So I'll see your big fat fatties and raise you a bunch of automatons.
If you show it they will watch!
I've watched that on Youtube! (I fall into the youtube spiral often lol)
We don't have enough exciting TV for the format to work here, I don't think. But if we did it's going to probably be "celebrities" doing the commenting. We put celebrities in almost every format that's supposed to be regular people doing regular people things...
There was a US version BTW. It was called The People's Couch (of course it was lol).
Hey you! Nice to see you.
First things first, I heard Africa on the radio on Friday at work, it will always be our song!
Gogglebox , they have done celebrity versions over here. I just think it's surreal that the norms become celebs. It blows my mind.
Celebrity Big Brother is basically all reality stars now + one washed up American from Saved by the Bell or something.
Heeey!
I can't think of a better song to be our song!
Oh, don't get me started on VIP (they're all very important persons, see) Brother. We get the washed up Americans too. But only for a day or two.
I think only the first season of our version of Come Dine With Me had normal people in it. It's been celebrities since then. (I use the term celebrity very loosely here) And recently I caught an episode of Wife Swap, at least there they went half and half with the famous people lol.
The only thing that has regular people in it I think is that court show where they were fighting over pickled vegetables LOL. And it is strange when they become infamous!
Ha! The washed up Americans are often the first to go! We even had an old porn star Jenna Jameson on one of ours, she looked nothing like her bikini shots! She had an arse the size of a small country for starters. Also someone called Farrah Abraham who is quite possibly the most obnoxious reality tv star I've ever seen and that's some stiff competition. No pun intended! Her claim to fame,apart from being a dickhead on telly, was inventing a marital aid nicknamed pink and stink (or something).Shudder.
Ah yes I remember the pickled veg court case show, indeed didn't Croft claim to have a better show in fake Romania?
What annoys me is when an already rich Celeb gets flown to some far off resort to make a smug documentary about trains or something. WTF? Send me, I can walk in a straight line whilst talking. Except on Cava nights of course.
Oh, no. It's not that they are voted off. They are hired to spend a couple of day in the house, plug whatever they have to plug (Did you know Mike Tyson pushes energy drinks now? And apparently Paris Hilton is a DJ...?) and then leave. We don't even get to see how horrible a person they are lol.
A fake show, from a fake person, from a fake country (well...). Fits!
I bet you on Cava nights would be more entertaining to watch though!
I watched one episode. It's so dumb. All it is is people watching TV and making smart-arse comments that aren't funny.
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