{"id":476,"date":"2007-10-04T22:24:42","date_gmt":"2007-10-04T22:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alexsuze.com\/blog\/?p=476"},"modified":"2007-10-04T22:25:15","modified_gmt":"2007-10-04T22:25:15","slug":"for-whom-the-belle-tolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/?p=476","title":{"rendered":"For Whom The Belle Tolls"},"content":{"rendered":"

This from www.itv.com<\/a> – “Watch the hot preview of tonight’s second episode of the raunchy drama starring Billie Piper on itv.com”<\/p>\n

It’s funny, but despite the fact that I found last week’s Billie Piper Fest (Secret Diary of a Call Girl) to be unrelentingly awful I know I’ll be watching it again tonight. The reason is obvious, there’s a perverse streak in me that loves awful TV.<\/p>\n

You see awful TV is not bad TV. Awful TV can be the sort of TV where one or more of the elements are great, but combined as a whole it simply doesn’t work. In the case of the Belle De Jour derivative, Billie is super, but the rest of the production is cringe-making.<\/p>\n

“A-ha!”, I hear you cry, “Give the show a chance, it was setting the scene last week. Once it gets into its stride it’ll be great TV”.<\/p>\n

No it will not. Take the quote from the ITV site above “hot preview”, “raunchy drama”. It’s tabloid headline material.<\/p>\n

~~~\u00a0<\/p>\n

I wrote the above earlier this evening. I’ve now watched the programme and I wasn’t wrong. Watching the show is good for a laugh but it makes me sad that a piece of television about a profession that is not sugar coated and sweet-smelling can gloss over the issues inherent in the profession of “escort”.<\/p>\n

I thought pretty woman was bad enough. You know, become a prostitute and meet a handsome millionaire – Sorry girl’s it isn’t going to happen like that. Maybe it’s because Secret Diary has pretensions to “dealing with” the issues surrounding the profession that I dislike this program so much. With Pretty woman you can regard the whole film as a piece of Hollywood fluff from beginning to end. Maybe Secret Diary of a Call Girl is not so far removed from reality and therefore is not abrogated from social responsibility. Pity the TV company hasn’t realised that.<\/p>\n

Sex isn’t a crime, but this sort of TV ought to be. If you want to hear the Eurythmics track on YouTube, click here<\/a> (The embed is diabled). I did want to link to “I did it just the same”, fans of the\u00a0novel 1984\u00a0will understand why, but despite me recalling a video for that track I can’t find it anywhere.<\/p>\n

Don’t worry, I don’t intend to post about Secret Diary again, I intend this to be my last rant on the programme.<\/p>\n

Tags: Belle De Jour<\/a>, Secret Diary of a Call Girl<\/a>, Prostitution<\/a>, Pretty Woman<\/a>, Social Repsonsibility<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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