Awards Shows: Why, God, Why?

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Oh good, it's Graham Norton and some celebrities.

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Fucking Shit	16
I enjoy them for some bizarre reason	9

― every time i pull a j/k off the shelf (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 6 June 2010 19:03 (fifteen years ago)

I'd forgotten how badly being reduced to 4 TV channels sucks.

― every time i pull a j/k off the shelf (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 6 June 2010 19:04 (fifteen years ago)

I enjoy them for some bizarre reason. I kinda like that we've culturally developed these rituals where our country can come together and watch a bunch of celebrities win awards.

― Mordy, Sunday, 6 June 2010 19:05 (fifteen years ago)

I've no problem with the rituals happening I'd just rather gnaw my own face off than sit through them.

― every time i pull a j/k off the shelf (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 6 June 2010 19:08 (fifteen years ago)

The crowd doesn't seem to laugh at his jokes much - I did though

― StanM, Sunday, 6 June 2010 19:08 (fifteen years ago)

No on second thoughts I wd like TV to broadcast completely random and non-celeb awards shows from time to time. I bet Plumber of the Year is just as good as the BAFTAs.

― every time i pull a j/k off the shelf (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 6 June 2010 19:09 (fifteen years ago)

Occasional glimpse of Michael McIntyre is annoying me here...

― Fat Dog Franklin (snoball), Sunday, 6 June 2010 19:13 (fifteen years ago)

I appreciate that Mordy has sort of answered this but I'm fascinated as to where the entertainment value in these things lies. It's like watching somebody else's staff development day.

― every time i pull a j/k off the shelf (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 6 June 2010 19:18 (fifteen years ago)

...annnnnnnnnnnd after ten minutes of the BAFTAs I voted "Fucking Shit". The Brit Awards is watchable in so far as it's guaranteed car crash TV. Everything else is just too polished.

― Fat Dog Franklin (snoball), Sunday, 6 June 2010 19:19 (fifteen years ago)

Awards shows want so badly to reach out beyond their fanboy viewer base, they are willing to stoop to any kind of pandering they can imagine to keep you watching. But still, they are just a fucking awards show and to hell with wasting my life watching them for one instant.

― Aimless, Sunday, 6 June 2010 19:20 (fifteen years ago)

If they were just short blurbs and clips and then THE WINNER IS then I might find them kind of addictive as I am invariably at least a year behind on whatever strand of culture and quite like getting a little cheat sheet of what items from the past year (or 30) are deemed worth catching up on

(admittedly ILX is mostly better for this except for me not clicking on threads for things I haven't heard of and then finally watching the series/film/whatever 5 years later and thinking "oh, so that's what that thread that was constantly on New Answers way back when was about, wish I'd read it then")

but as it is I find the speeches unbearable, so generally I'm reaching for the off button partway through the first speech

― atoms breaking heart (a passing spacecadet), Sunday, 6 June 2010 19:30 (fifteen years ago)

Worth watching for Cowell's reaction to losing to The Inbetweeners.

― State Attorney Foxhart Cubycheck (Billy Dods), Sunday, 6 June 2010 20:39 (fifteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Sunday, 13 June 2010 23:01 (fourteen years ago)

so what was that lame 'spat' between one senile dude and one fat dude all about?

― May be half naked, but knows a good headline when he sees it (darraghmac), Monday, 14 June 2010 11:33 (fourteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Monday, 14 June 2010 23:01 (fourteen years ago)

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