Saturday 11 October 2008

 

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Michael Henderson

Michael Henderson suggests


Television

True lies

Wednesday, 21st November 2007

Arrange Me a Marriage (BBC2), Cranford (BBC1), and The Blair Years (BBC1)

You cannot trust a single frame of any reality television show. I don’t mean they are deliberately mendacious, though some are, but nobody behaves normally when a camera is on them. Take those spontaneous conversations on speakerphone as someone bowls along in the car. You’re talking, you’re wondering if your hair is right, the poor cameraman is scrunched up in the footwell, and you’re trying to drive. It’s as artificial as rhinestone.

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