So the other day we were just having some general chatter about the different shows that are going on in our department - we were discussing if they were running smoothly and whether they'll be good TV when this wondeful statement was dropped in.
Miss M: So how is (The Show) going up North?
Production Manager: Apparently it is going quite well. I wouldn't want to be working on it though because a lot of the cases they are following have ended up dying. That must be quite stressful.
Edit Producer: With a totally straight face Well that is good isn't it? Makes for fantastic TV
Silence
Miss M: Completely shocked You can't say that!?!? Take it back!
Edit Producer: But it's true. People dying makes for really good viewing. You have to think in those terms Miss M
Production Manager: I hate to admit it but he is right
Miss M: Big sigh Sometimes I wish I worked with sane people
Edit Producer: We are, we just think constructively in TV
My colleagues are sick sick sick people.
Thursday, 10 April 2008
Overheard in the Office
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Actually, it's people who are the sick ones if that sort of shit brings in the ratings.
The source, eh??? ;)
Hey that is so true actually. It is the people I should blame!
OI GENERAL PUBLIC! DON'T BE SUCH SICKO'S!!!!
It's true the public brings in the ratings, but who was the sicko who thought of the idea in the first place?
Hey, they aren't making a show about people dying! It just happens that the people are dying and they are filming that. It isn't the premise for the show!
If it bleeds; it leads! Sick but true!
You got it Blondie!
Oh, okay. That clears everything up. Yeah, public viewers are sick! :)
i just sold my tv... i want no part in this...
Day One of Reporting School:
"Nothing will sell more papers than a car accident, fires, or cute animals. Nothing!"
See it translates to tv...
You would be out of a show if nobody pegged, wouldn't you?!?
No show = no job = no pay = no food = no shelter = no health insurance = dead one day! You'd become a statistic...
Let's hope for your sake, the public keeps up the ratings!
@sweets - It's like rubber necking at a crash scene, everyone wants to watch!
@meghan - Yup, crisis's sell it.
@kab - Just to stress AGAIN this is NOT my show and they are not TRYING to kill people it is just that a couple of the people they have been filming with the story lines have died. But it does go with the territory of the show I suppose.
One of my favorite dead gurus, Hunter S. Thompson, would have loved working with the sickos.
Relax...sjoe...it was only a joke!
Seriously, I'm sure your lot don't kill folk...haiwenna!
Its mad to think about it like that. I remember a while back when there was so much media coverage of a guy dying on a documentary. Whether it was ethical to show his actually death etc. Whatever people's views were on it, most tuned in to watch it.
People a seriously sick! xx
@kab - It's ok, just really have to clarify that as you never know who might be reading! Anyways no one is killing anyone, it is just a documentary.
@nick - I enjoy working with them too, I just can't believe the cold ruthlessness that it was said in.
@elise - I remember that. Was hectic. And no, I didn't watch the show ;)
The title of this post reminded me of one of my favourite websites: http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/pages/mostpopular.html
Not really relevant to people dying on TV though...
Damn, I hate how blogger cuts off the URL!
http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/
pages/mostpopular.html
People are sick.
It's like when there's a huge car accident, even though you really don't want to look, people always tend to drive past really slowly, and glarring for a glimpse of the tradegy. Its like we thrive on other people's misfortune. How depressing.
People always have a fascination with the macabre. I don't believe it's necessarily a bad thing, because in many ways it helps you to come to terms with your own (inevitable) mortality.
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