Tonight was the airing of BBC3's new program Technophobes and as a man with his own fears and mental challenges, as we all do, I found this new program untactful, mocking and frankly quite discriminating. How dare the BBC, who have been on the back foot recently due to the 'Top Gear India Special', choose to target another minority within our society. I doubt these 'technophobes' who have been painted by BBC3 as being retarded and crazy, pay for TV licensing to be nationally exploited and embarrassed. I expect the BBC to be under further criticism this week for this program.
The opening sequence of the program was had foretold the story to follow for the next 59 minutes. The childish non diegetic music that had been put on loop, mixed with childrens laughter was something that you would find on a channel like ‘Cbeebies’ and I wouldn’t be surprised if I had been told that was actually true. The visual part of the opening sequence was simple and straight forward showing pictures of the people they were going to follow throughout the program, however when mixed with the ridiculous music, created a disgraceful cocktail which the BBC will eventually have to drink.
The people who were to be followed around where actually nice people which makes this tragedy even worse, however the way that the BBC have portrayed them meant they were easily laughed at. However, I was not laughing and I can bet my last shilling that thousands of people were not laughing, however for the millions of people that this program was probably aimed at such as teens and young adults, they were probably laughing their socks off meaning that the BBC had done what they had intended to do, entertain their audience.
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