Quite clearly, my colleague who sent out the message, unthinkingly but with the best of intentions to keep interested people informed, ruined a number of people's evenings, if not their lives. He got messages full of venom back in buckets. Now you have ruined it for me. I hate you. I will never invite you to my house to watch Reality TV again.
Reality TV is big, big, big and getting bigger.
I could handle it at first. The odd day-time talk show, with distraught young women accusing their fathers of sleeping with her mothers, was amusing for five minutes. Then we started to be besieged by real-life programs about car chases and police work. Versions of Survivor have been made in Italy, Spain, Germany, France, Argentina, and Belgium, and there are plans to make an Australian version. Apparently a venue has yet to be decided though the Nine Network is leaning towards an Australian site.