Hazell B
10th December 2009, 21:31
Agh!
One week they're moaned about some production staff pretending to buy things at auction (which doesn't alter the price, sale or in fact anything at all) and sacking staff, the next they are showing one cat being rescued by the RSPCA then another, very different cat, being rehomed. I'm sick of TV fakery that's pointless and complaints about perfectly fair trickery.
On, for example, Bargain Hunt I know about 90% of the auction action is fake. I know this because dealers don't want to be filmed buying items when their customers can see them. Who wants his customers knowing what he pays for stuff they buy? Or where he bought it? Nobody. I see dealers I know buying on TV often, but in general it's them being shown while in fact another dealer is really bidding, known to the crew and auctioneer of course ;)
In the end, it doesn't matter a jot to the shows' integrity.
However, what does annoy me is that on this morning's Animal 24/7 one cat was seen being rescued from a grotty house yet another was substituted when they showed it all happy and healthy again. The rescued cat's friend had feline AIDS and Leukemia, so my guess is the original cat was put to sleep and they didn't want to show a sad ending. Why not? Can't us Brits face a non-rosey world where cats die? Why fake the story? Either tell us the truth or film another rescue that did have a happy ending - don't just rename a totally different animal and claim the world's a lovely, fluffy bundle of joy full of happy kitties :mark:
I've emailed the BBC to ask why they invent things shown as factual and why they sack people who've not altered a show's truth at all. Bet they don't bother answering :p :
One week they're moaned about some production staff pretending to buy things at auction (which doesn't alter the price, sale or in fact anything at all) and sacking staff, the next they are showing one cat being rescued by the RSPCA then another, very different cat, being rehomed. I'm sick of TV fakery that's pointless and complaints about perfectly fair trickery.
On, for example, Bargain Hunt I know about 90% of the auction action is fake. I know this because dealers don't want to be filmed buying items when their customers can see them. Who wants his customers knowing what he pays for stuff they buy? Or where he bought it? Nobody. I see dealers I know buying on TV often, but in general it's them being shown while in fact another dealer is really bidding, known to the crew and auctioneer of course ;)
In the end, it doesn't matter a jot to the shows' integrity.
However, what does annoy me is that on this morning's Animal 24/7 one cat was seen being rescued from a grotty house yet another was substituted when they showed it all happy and healthy again. The rescued cat's friend had feline AIDS and Leukemia, so my guess is the original cat was put to sleep and they didn't want to show a sad ending. Why not? Can't us Brits face a non-rosey world where cats die? Why fake the story? Either tell us the truth or film another rescue that did have a happy ending - don't just rename a totally different animal and claim the world's a lovely, fluffy bundle of joy full of happy kitties :mark:
I've emailed the BBC to ask why they invent things shown as factual and why they sack people who've not altered a show's truth at all. Bet they don't bother answering :p :