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2:41 pm
May 26, 2009
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We get a depressing amount of these requests per week (which just goes to show how unimaginative TV is – someone does a wedding show, we all do wedding shows) and I've more or less patience with them now. My gripe is twofold:
1 – they assume that because they're TV we should somehow be enthralled that they're asking us, a little old website, to help them out. Obviously, no one ever suggests that basically what they're asking for is a free ad – y'know the stuff that we charge money for.
2 – I don't believe that the involvement of TV improves anyone's life, ever. I can see how some people misguidedly see it as glamorous or as a route to fame (and the fact that this is seen as a career plan makes me want to barf my soul out), but I look at all the programmes made about weddings and at no point have I seen one that really celebrated marriage, or improved the wedding. They (and by extension – viewers) are simply vampires, leaching off the beauty of real experience. And I don't mean sexy TV vampires either. I mean dirty, infected shitty vampires that can't fly.
Anyway, I'm always prepared to be told I'm wrong. I'm not, but feel free to try and tell me anyway. And in the meantime – will all TV companies please fuck off.
Cheers,
Shan
Hi Lindsay,
Thanks for your email. I'm sure your programme and company are different, but I'm afraid I've lost faith with TV becoming grotesquely and painfully exploitative and intellectually numbing. The content your industry has generated about weddings has done everything to undermine what I believe is a wonderful institution and precisely nothing to support it. Whether they're gypsies, grooms or aspirational brides TV stomps on them all.
I take your point about you not wanting to embarrass people (although the fact that you have to state that speaks volumes) but I just don't see how an intensely private and special moment between two people needs the augmentation of a camera crew. Who wins in this situation?
Consequently, I'm not mad keen to promote TV shows on the site. I think your ad is on our FB page complete with my petulant comment underneath and you're welcome to leave it up there if that's useful.
Sorry that makes me sound like a gigantic arsehole (I am, but that's a separate issue) but there you go.
Best wishes,
Andrew.
On 01/11/2011 14:04, Lindsay Sharp wrote:
Hello I Am Staggered,
My name is Lindsay and I am contacting you from Blast Films. We are making a documentary about wedding proposals. You have a fantastic website! I was wondering if there was anyway we could post on your site or if there is anyone who has gotten in touch with you about planning a proposal? We would love to get in contact with them or if possible could you pass our advert onto them? We are in no ways attempting to embarrass the proposer we would just like to find people who are planning unique proposals and help them to make the proposal that much more special.
This is our advert:
DO YOU WANT TO GET ENGAGED?
DO YOU WANT TO MAKE YOUR PROPOSAL REALLY SPECIAL?
Blast Films and Channel 4 are looking for people who want to propose in a unique way. If you have an amazing idea and want help to create something truly memorable we’d like to hear from you.
Contact us today: proposal@blastfilms.co.uk or call Emma on 0207 267 4260
I look forward to hearing from you!
Regards,
Lindsay
8:38 pm
That's Mr Groom To You
December 2, 2010
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Hey Shan, ever heard of that song 'The Man Don't Give A Fuck' (Super Furry Animals, I think)? That's you that is.
Emma watches an insane amount of Wedding programming, and I think generally it's getting better now than it was say, a year ago. However, there's still some utter shite out there – I'm sick of Bridezillas in particular, it's obvious that the women involved are out to act like bitches purely becuase they want to play up to the camera.
Don't Tell The Bride is one of those morbidly fascinating tv programmes. Part of you wants to see a beautiful wedding, but part is fascinated by how much the poor groom is going to cock it all up. I personally also get grumpy about the fact that us taxpayers are funding the £12k the grooms get to spend.
Right-minded people just wouldn't go in for television weddings, their whole purpose is to be a freak show and you can bet that if everything did go well, the editing would make the day look sensationalist in some way or other…..
1:39 pm
Groomzilla
July 1, 2011
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I wouldn't ever be particularly keen to sign up for a wedding program just because its an event in one's life that is relatively personal, and shared with a chosen few (also my gripe about celebs selling their weddings to OK and the like). Most of the wedding shows are pretty awful, Don't tell the bride is ok, although not been as impressed with the most recent series. But even that is a bit of a fraud. They set up all this tension and then the bride always likes pretty much 99% of what the groom has picked. And the stuff the bride has been looking at probably wouldn't fit anywhere near a £12,000 budget.
9:47 am
March 9, 2010
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No! Don't Tell the Bride is neither "morbidly fascinating" nor "OK".
No-one who watches this really wants to see a beautiful wedding, everyone just wants to cackle with glee at the moronic behaviour of the idiots on display, who have been hand-picked by the production company as the most likely to fuck-it-all-up.
If you object to your licence fee being spent on this horsecrap (and not on truly brilliant stuff like Frozen Planet), then vote with your feet (or your eyes?) and STOP WATCHING IT!!! As soon as viewing figures drop the TV vampires will turn their lecherous slavering gaze onto some other unfortunate twats willing to sell their souls for 15 minutes of humiliation, and leave us to have our weddings in the peace and tranquility they deserve.
Massive applause to Shan for fucking these people right off. The worst kind of oxygen thieves.
8:29 am
Groomling
January 12, 2012
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I joined the forum specifically to reply to this post because I feel really strongly about this! Hello, by the way!
I am aware of one TV company, who shall remain nameless, specifically targeted mental health charities to find participants. Their spiel was about diversity and people with MH problems being under represented but I suspect they were really after someone who would crack under the pressure on live TV. Pretty reprehensible really.
9:47 am
May 26, 2009
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babbphoto said:
I joined the forum specifically to reply to this post because I feel really strongly about this! Hello, by the way!
I am aware of one TV company, who shall remain nameless, specifically targeted mental health charities to find participants. Their spiel was about diversity and people with MH problems being under represented but I suspect they were really after someone who would crack under the pressure on live TV. Pretty reprehensible really.
Blimey, that's depressing. You should go to a proper journalist with that (i.e. not me:), they need to be shown up. As you say they can cover themselves with the whole thing of it being a great equal opps, but really they know that people with a tic make for good telly.
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