Without Prejudice

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Did you see this?

I found it very depressing, and wish I'd turned over sooner to the classic O'Shea vs. Hankey match earlier.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 10:13 (twenty-two years ago)

(superflous earlier there, sorry 'bout that)

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 10:14 (twenty-two years ago)

i watched the parton bio and turned over at 11.35 to without prejudice to see what it was like. within 2 minutes i'd switched to the o'shea/hankey match. it was a belter. you missed out je1.

― michael wells (michael w.), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 10:30 (twenty-two years ago)

For those of you who have not seen the programme (a format coming to a country near you possibly - though the idea is a lot better than the programme on current viewing) is a game show "without" a game. One of five people stand to win £50,000 - the winner is chosen by a panel of another five people based on the scant amount of info they can glean about them in the structured rounds. Basically it is all about the panel debating their various predjudices and voting people out until only one is left.

Potentially fascinating, actually rather depressing to see the prejudices laid bare.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 11:11 (twenty-two years ago)

The homophobic old git on the first one was an awful awful man.

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 11:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Are they allowed to be racist?

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 11:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I haven't seen anyone be racist yet, but then I've only seen one.

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 11:15 (twenty-two years ago)

There has only been one but I suppose so. They won't come out of it very well if they are though. Hence why the programme is depressing. And Liza Tarbuck presents it badly (blandly - where it needs a bit more oomph).

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 11:15 (twenty-two years ago)

All I could deduce from the programme is that people are a bit crap, and that school teachery bloke was very cruel and pious when he was trying to be funny.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 11:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Liza T certainly doesn't have the same oomph in this that she had in Have I Got News For You.

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 7 January 2003 11:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, she didn't seem to get involved much at all. I liked it I think. The way to make this work is have the judges this week be the contestants next week. What do the judges get out of it?

― Graham (graham), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 12:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I suppose they are supposed to have the satisfaction of giving a 'deserving' person £50,000. Really, I can't see any good coming out of being a judge, I'd feel about judging people and would probably be unable to decide who should get the cash.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 12:58 (twenty-two years ago)

but really, are any of them particularly deserving? None of the ones that I saw were particularly more desrving of a fat wad of cash than I am.

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 13:13 (twenty-two years ago)

That's the point, no one deserves a load of cash just for being deemed a 'good' person (it should be it's own reward), and if they think that they do, then they clearly don't deserve it. The programme is fundamentally flawed.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 13:18 (twenty-two years ago)

But nor do you "earn" the money you make in other generally random gameshows (Without prejudice is pretty much the salt that is left when you boil down the seawater that is Big Brother. It completely rules out any kind of objective justification.)

I like Graham's idea.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 13:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Last nights was a lot more tame.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 13:04 (twenty-two years ago)

That woman from Cambridge on the panel was such a fucking witch though.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 13:06 (twenty-two years ago)

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