glasgow we go to brian mcknight our he's a professor of journalism and communication at the university of strathclyde and we go to london to study molly she's a lecturer of media and communications of burnell university and another member of our cross talk team yell on the hunger all right folks cross talk rules in effect but first i'd like to make a few comments about some of the research i did making this program because i am i do not actually.

glasgow we go to brian mcknight our he's a professor of journalism and communication at the university of strathclyde and we go to london to study molly she's a lecturer of media and communications a bernal university and another member of our cross talk team yell on the hunger all right folks cross talk rules in effect but first i'd like to make a few comments about some of the research i did making this program because i am i do not actually watch reality t.v. programs quote this is what i found some of my research reality t.v. makes us feel dirty and cheap and if we didn't we probably wouldn't bother turning turn tuning into it never have so many watch t.v. with so little good to say about it and also critics call it gutter t.v. and humiliation t.v. reflects a culture that worships vanity and wealth rather than virtue and humility so if i go to you brian why do people watch reality t.v. programs. i think that reality t.v. gives people an unsafe and to us as banal as ordinary and put it doesn't shed a light on the ordinary and it makes the ordinary so more extraordinary we all live ordinary waifs.