Yes, we know Fiona Bruce is now fronting Porridge Time, it’s still predictably hopeless. Yet the BBC seem compelled to keep serving up the gruel. The only interesting thing about Porridge Time is that it’s produced for the BBC by an independent company, Mentorn Media. So, don’t bother asking the BBC how much Bruce gets paid because they do not know.
The Empty Room Principle
explains why television is rubbish!
An artist, feeling inspired, decided to paint an empty room white. Closing the door to the room at the end of the day, he felt fulfilled, the empty room was completely white; floor, ceiling, walls - all white. Mission accomplished.
That evening he was entertaining an artist friend and his ego got the better of him - he decided to share his latest creation - the empty white room, with his guest. He opened the door to the white room and both men peered in from the door. Very interesting said the friend but it needs something, perhaps a pair of old shoes. The artist removed his shoes and threw them into the room - the creation was now really complete.
All this occurred in the days before the Turner Prize, otherwise the artist in question would have been much the richer and feted as a celebrity. In fact, the White Room with Shoes was a little known piece and little remarked outside of a coterie of people living in an insulated dreamlike bubble.
However, the story of this artist provides us with an explanation as to why television is rubbish - we call it the 'empty room principle'.
TV companies buy a slice of the broadcasting airwaves and feel the need to fill them, with vacuous rubbish, 24 hours a day.
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