With BBC 3 shifting to more user driven You Tube style content (at least with it's idents and that Noel Fielding show) do people think that's a good idea? Personally, the idea fills me with dread. I don't pay my licence fee so I can see a lot of annoying amatuer twats acting like arses in the hope they can get on TV for a nanosecond... Has user driven content ever produced any genuinely watchable shows?
Quote: chipolata @ January 30, 2008, 10:27 AMI don't pay my licence fee so I can see a lot of annoying amatuer twats acting like arses in the hope they can get on TV for a nanosecond...
I agree.. we can come on BSG and get that for free! 
Quote: Frankie Rage @ January 30, 2008, 12:17 PMI agree.. we can come on BSG and get that for free!
Quote: chipolata @ January 30, 2008, 10:27 AMI don't pay my licence fee so I can see a lot of annoying amatuer twats acting like arses
Quite agree. Sadly I think it's here to stay - user generated content is dirt cheap to broadcast and obviously sucks in viewers as people watch to see if they'll be on.
Charlie Brooker wrote about the Bedroom TV channel recently - now that sounds like hell, or the funniest thing ever (I can't get Sky so can't judge for myself) http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguide/columnists/story/0,,2238425,00.html
Upstaged is BBC3's first new UGC show - £50 it is awful.
Quote: Mark @ January 30, 2008, 12:24 PMCharlie Brooker wrote about the Bedroom TV channel recently - now that sounds like hell, or the funniest thing ever (I can't get Sky so can't judge for myself) http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguide/columnists/story/0,,2238425,00.html
It's all true!
User driven content is a very bad idea. Most people, lets be honest, aren't funny.
Why should talented people be forced to share an equal platform with media students or any old tit with a half decent camera?
"User generated content" is all shite. I rarely even visit YouTube, and when I do, it's almost exclusively for stuff like old TV ads, theme tunes and the like, never amateur wankery.
Oh, and apparently that Bedroom TV channel is hilarious. But I'm taking that from a drunken Scot and a crazy Mancunian, so best to judge for yourselves.
Bedroom TV, a channel full of amateur videos?!
Ah, it's not what I thought it was then...
UGC is a technological platform to be used to sell your wares BUT it should never be used by the broadcasters as an excuse to fill valuable broadcasting time.
Quote: Aaron @ January 30, 2008, 4:43 PM... never amateur wankery.
Then I shall take my amateur wankery elsewhere!! 
A good day to you Sir!
Yeah Internet clip shows suck.
Is commissioner driven content also a good idea?
I don't think television is really an artists medium any more (if it ever was) and I don't think it matters too much to the channel bosses what they put on as long as the plebs and lards like it as, in truth, they are very much in the majority (as an audience) and so it's effectively become their medium.
Having said that, there have of course been many brilliant TV programs over the years that could be considered to have artistic merit, but few and far between these days IMO.
Talking of Charlie Brooker, wasn't Nathan Barley pretty much an attack on User Driven Content? It's never been one of my favourite sitcoms, but it did effectively skewer the type of people likely to make this sort of thing. And the type of people now apparently running BBC3.
Quote: chipolata @ January 31, 2008, 4:20 PMTalking of Charlie Brooker, wasn't Nathan Barley pretty much an attack on User Driven Content? It's never been one of my favourite sitcoms, but it did effectively skewer the type of people likely to make this sort of thing. And the type of people now apparently running BBC3.
A lot of people have compared the BBC3 management to Nathan Barley.
Talking of which, I notice the rather fun secret BBC3 blogger who is pretending to be controller Danny Cohen seems to have got him (or herself) into a bit of hot water... http://thetvcontroller.blogspot.com/
EDIT: Actually, going back to Nathan Barley, for a comedy not many people bothered sticking with (myself included), it has had quite a big cultural impact. 'Nathan Barley' has almost become shorthand for describing a certain time of new media prick.
Totally f**king Mexico.
I really must rewatch the dvd.