Is This The Type Of Tv Programme We Should Encourage?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2645647/Are-precocious-11-year-olds-Britain-Benefits-cheats-Gay-marriage-Absent-fathers-The-young-stars-new-TV-opinion-EVERYTHING.html

It is of course good that some talented youngsters have a outlet o voice their opinions and aspirations, but should these kind of thoughts be encouraged from a 11 year old?

/// Meanwhile, Amaria, 11, from East London, has crammed a lot of Margaret Thatcher-hating into her short life, describing the late Prime Minister as an ‘old hag’ who deserves to be ‘pushing up the daisies in her cold dead
grave’. ///

This comes from a child who's father was murdered in a shooting when she was two or three, perhaps she would be better to voice her opinions on gang killings.

[dunnitall]

Grown up too soon for my liking, children should be allowed to be children without having the weight of the world/country on their shoulders. We didn't have much to worry about when we were that age, well not the opinions they are giving anyway. Shame really IMO.

[ummmm]

I agree with that to a certain extent, dunnitall. I was rarely in the house at their age.

[ludwig]

I think gromit's 'freak show' description is about right. We're being invited to laugh at cute kids spouting naive opinions. There's no more merit to it than that.

[Svejk]

I like the ones where the infants give their 'mad' view of life.

[ludwig]

^ Prime Minister's question time. I like that too svejk.

[Svejk]

LOL@ludwig

[Zeuhl]

/Is This The Type Of Tv Programme We Should Encourage?/

well if enough people watch it, the Producers and Commissioners may be encouraged to make more.

If not, it will probably not go beyond Season 1.

Commercial TV is brutally reflective of the audience's standards.

[royfromaus]

Who will be watching the the one I saw advertised this week


http://www.channel4.com/info/press/news/channel-4-commissions-my-last-summer-w-t



My Last Summer which will bring together a group of five strangers who are terminally ill and have been told they are dying. The group will meet regularly at a residential manor house in the Cotswolds to help support one another through the final stages of their life while they contemplate the reality of their own death.

[Mamyalynne]

I am not sure about this kind of programme, it will either be toe curlingly bad or fascinating - we shall see.

I love the opinions of Children as a rule, makes for great debate.

I like the quote from the link...


//It is a bit bonkers, but possibly no less so than your average grown-up dinner party//

[sandyRoe]

This picture is posed in such a way that it mocks well-loved imagery of The Last Supper.
Doesn't seem right, somehow.

[Zeuhl]

^^LOL sandy

though i don't recall any of them featuring the topping up of drinks! Or feet on the table for that matter.

The Jesus Cult have tried to lay claim to many icons belonging to their predecessors, let's hope they don't also try to copyright 'people sitting around long table'

:-)

[andy-hughes]

Save some time and enjoy yourself - get a box set of Outnumbered!

[sandyRoe]

Does the old saying: Children should be seen but not heard, no longer carry any weight?

[ummmm]

I've already said that, Sandy.

I think children should be encouraged to have opinions and just like adults they need to learn when to keep their gobs shut.

[sandyRoe]

Ah yes, I see at 12:41. But it's a thought worth repeating.

[Slapshot]

Quite interesting reading the responses on here, generally it shows up the generation gaps among us pretty well, from the children should be seen and not heard brigade to the encourage them to have opinions..

Anyway, we brought our pair up to have dome independance of though but to remember that within their young lives they have much still to experience of society. I would rather have a good intelligent discussion with my kids than expect them to be subserviant to my views and opinions.

[sandyRoe]

Does anyone remember the boy, Hague at the Tory conference in '77? ""Half of you won't be here in 30 or 40 years' time..."
Precocious little brat.

[Mamyalynne]

I enjoyed the programme overall, and yes a lot of their influences were from their parents - but they were articulate and entertaining.

[ummmm]

My son had quite a troubled early teenage years. Heaven knows what he'd have been like if I'd suppressed him.

[anotheoldgit]

ummmm

/// My son had quite a troubled early teenage years. Heaven knows what he'd have been like if I'd suppressed him. ///

Perhaps less troubled in his early teenage years?