Salman HushdieThis article was published by Salman Hushdie on March 9th 2007. This article has 3 comments.

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A little rant: Castaway

Hello fellow sceptics (we are like little Scullys)…

I have something to say, its to do with the new Castaway. I look at the BBC with a stoical and intellectual manner, although these things have melted away since News 24 (if you ever watch, its visual tabloids for goldfish). Although this was a first, a long time before Big Brother and Survivor and all those terribly shit reality tv shows, it was kind of entertaining.

These people gave up their lives and decided to live on a far away island somewhere off Scotland, where they had to fend for themselves, live off the land and be all round islanders. They had young people like posh boy Ben Fogle and really old crazy drunks they picked up in the pub. One of them threatened to kill Fogle, a wish I dream of very often.

Anyway, it was a sweet innocent idea. Nowadays, it is smut ridden, with ‘eye candy’ and ‘controversial choices’ to ‘mix’ things up. It’s so boring. They have even made it so you can join the Castaways.

This time its somewhere exotic! Its near New Zealand. God it’s so boring! And everyones young as usual! Honestly BBC, try a little harder, you used to be the ones who came up with the ideas. I think a mix of ages, on an island for a year is a much better, stop thinking short term, start thinking interesting!

I blame our stupid sex generation, and its obsession with skin!

3 Comments to “A little rant: Castaway”

  1. ps I hate skins, one of thee worst television programmes ever made, supposedly real life and like what teenagers see life, fucks sake, i am the youth still, and its shitter than they make out.

  2. Hushdie says:

    well its fun really, but not like they make out

  3. Oliver says:

    Skins is really crap Hushdie I agree. In the one episode I watched they all looked quite attractive and were saying witty things to each other while wearing nice clothing. I thought being a teenager was about petty criminality and sexual cowardice. How old are they meant to be?