5 Blindingly Obvious Ways To Revitalise Saturday Night TV
After the news that X Factor received its record lowest ratings, here's five ways to spruce up Saturday nights on the box.
It's Saturday night, and you decide to stay in for once. You may as well give it a try order that curry or pizza, open a bottle of red wine, sit back with the intent to have an easy one in front of the TV.
Two hours later and you're face palming repeatedly. You somehow managed to experience the same show you saw the last time you spent Saturday night watching the telly, albeit with some subtle differences. Insert a different crying celebrity or wannabe singer with 'issues' and voilà apparently it's a completely different programme! The harsh truth is that prime television has deteriorated over the last ten years, even to the extent where we've adapted to such an environment that we begin enjoying the choice between a reality show about dancing, a reality show about singing or a reality show about reality shows. We're humans: we like variety. But this isn't the time or place to critique the micro. Instead, Saturday night television can improve by looking at the bigger picture. Nor is this isn't going to be one of those X Factor-bashing articles that pretentiously holds certain forms of entertainment above others what people want to watch is up to them and rightly so. However, there are four major things TV execs of the big British channels BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Sky can do to revitalise this predictable time slot for the majority of the public. Click next to find out!