Tommie Sandlin
CibbuanoTroubling news in Reality TV: Big Brother Australia cancelled
July 21st 2008 10:07
Sadly, for those of us in the reality TV fan world, Big Brother Australia has reached its final season, and there will be no Big Brother in Australia in 2009.
I'm distraught and unbalanced. You might even say that I'm a jangled bunch of nerves. This is an outrage, sir, an outrage. Without Big Brother on TV, what will reality TV fans watch? Sure, we can all enjoy one of those programs where some hot guy/girl picks from a group of nerds/athletes/business students, but where's the invasion of privacy that we crave?
Like it or not, Big Brother celebrities have defined modern Australia. These are our heroes, role models for the children. These are regular people, everyday people, forced to interact in a closed environment with a bunch of other people, and we get to watch every delicious minute.
A part of me has died with the news that the show has been canceled. Even if they bring it back, I'm not sure I can love again. Once I've been hurt, I take two steps back.
The watercooler at work is barren of gossip and interesting conversations. Without the common thread of network TV programming, I can't relate to the people at work, and they look awfully uncomfortable around each other. Luckily, we still have sports, so that fills the meaningless voids of banal conversation at the lunch table.
Big Brother, come back to me. If the landscape of Australian television was an endless green meadow, I'd be a little schoolgirl with pigtails, running across it, arms outstretched, waiting for you to tilt your hat back and pick me up in your big farmer's arms. Take me with you.
I'm distraught and unbalanced. You might even say that I'm a jangled bunch of nerves. This is an outrage, sir, an outrage. Without Big Brother on TV, what will reality TV fans watch? Sure, we can all enjoy one of those programs where some hot guy/girl picks from a group of nerds/athletes/business students, but where's the invasion of privacy that we crave?
Like it or not, Big Brother celebrities have defined modern Australia. These are our heroes, role models for the children. These are regular people, everyday people, forced to interact in a closed environment with a bunch of other people, and we get to watch every delicious minute.
A part of me has died with the news that the show has been canceled. Even if they bring it back, I'm not sure I can love again. Once I've been hurt, I take two steps back.
The watercooler at work is barren of gossip and interesting conversations. Without the common thread of network TV programming, I can't relate to the people at work, and they look awfully uncomfortable around each other. Luckily, we still have sports, so that fills the meaningless voids of banal conversation at the lunch table.
Big Brother, come back to me. If the landscape of Australian television was an endless green meadow, I'd be a little schoolgirl with pigtails, running across it, arms outstretched, waiting for you to tilt your hat back and pick me up in your big farmer's arms. Take me with you.
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