Category: Pop Culture

Are the UK’s reality TV shows really nothing more than a charter for would be sex offenders? As another show comes under scrutiny for allegations of sexual assault against female contestants, producer announces new, even more controversial, format featuring male contestants trying to guess which female contestant is underage. Bold taboo-challenging social experiment or low grade titillation for the sexually depraved?

Top academic asks – why do long-running media narratives, like the Epstein Files, never seem to reach a satisfactory conclusion? Why is that ‘smoking gun’ never quite found? Is it a conspiracy by media elites to distract the public from what’s really going on in the world via these never-ending narratives? Or are the public being protected from the mind-numbingly mundane nature of the real world?

Are increasing requirements for intrusive ID and age checks for internet pornography driving users back to traditional, analogue, smut? Entrepreneur announces launch of new line of adult magazines in anticipation of analogue migration, pointing to lack of age checks at local newsagents for top shelf content. Others look forward to return of traditional strip joints, peep shows and sex shops as digital ID checks become more prevalent.

Is UK right-wing media’s relentless focus on doom and gloom part of an attempt to actually manifest a dystopian reality via minds of its readers? Is it part of plot to create environment for extreme right-wing political victory? Is Labour government using Tibetan monks to manifest counter positive reality via meditation?

Drive-by shootings by double decker buses! Top TV producer unveils controversial plans to update classic UK TV sitcom ‘On the Buses’, portraying original characters as drug dealers dispensing cocaine from the top deck! Scripts feature shootings, gang warfare and drug driving of buses – all played for laughs in what is described as a dark comedy for contemporary Britain.

Top British tabloid editor vents frustrations at not being able to fully embrace Trump and his anti-immigration, cost-cutting and anti civil rights policies due to US president’s unpopularity in UK. Claims Fleet Street’s right-wing press ‘in Hell’ as they also feel obliged to attack right-wing Labour government for implementing anti-immigration, anti-benefits agenda and anti-public spending agenda they previously endorsed.

Should all creative activity be handed over to Artificial Intelligence? With writers, actors, directors and other creatives increasingly being ‘outed’ as sex offenders, religious freaks, animal molesters and Nazis, top science fiction writer claims that AI created fiction, films and TV would save fans from emotional trauma of having to constantly cancel their idols.

UK press accused of being over reliant upon supposed high-level confidential sources rather than investigative journalism after bishop falsely accused of defecating on neighbour’s lawn. Top academic claims most sources actually nosy neighbours and local voyeurs peddling rumour and innuendo. Are facts now obsolete in journalism?

Are modern nativity plays too woke? Top conservative columnist complains of too much ‘inclusiveness’ including shepherds played by little girls, Chinese wise men and grifting pregnant refugees. Is Christmas itself, with its socialist calls for ‘goodwill to all men’ and ‘peace on earth’, being hijacked by the ‘wokerati’?

Is it ‘Ready, Steady, Cock’ as top BBC food presenter Gregg Wallace stands accused of sexual misconduct? Lurid new claims of Wallace painting genitals green and pretending they were vegetables during time as greengrocer spark fears that media being flooded with ludicrous fake allegations as part of campaign to discredit original accusations.

Struggling right-wing news channel’s new reality TV show puts ordinary family into midst of wartime Britain complete with rationing and deprivation. Family involved complains they were traumatised as TV company went to extreme lengths for realism, including bombing their street, and strafing their grandmother with live ammunition.

Tabloid causes outrage with misogynistic, homophobic and racist headlines. Editor claims newspaper simply reflecting its readers true feelings instead of trying to disguise them with euphemisms. Opines that paper should be praised for its honesty instead of being condemned by hypocritical rivals.

Liz Truss’ new TV game show causes outrage as it pits so called ‘wokery’ against naked greed. Contestants have to meet challenges with either ‘woke’ and responsible response for modest gains, or risk going broke by gambling on racism, recklessness and irresponsibility to win them big money.

Are streaming services becoming so desperate for new content they are spying on lives of subscribers? Man claims that new streaming TV drama series is actually based on his everyday life. Staines woman alleges new ‘reality documentary’ is her actual life illicitly filmed and sensationalised with actors secretly inserted to contrive dramatic incidents for cameras.