I may be slightly mad

[Grizzley8u]

Ok so you may think i am slightly mad for after reading this. If anyone can make this happen you read it here first and I want credit.

So I have and idea for a new reality tv show
I say you take the CCTV footage from a prison and get them to entertain the masses. You could give them challenges and make them compete for food and basically its big brother but with crooks who are locked up anyway. They are not doing anything constructive for society so they may as well entertain the brain dead who will watch anything fronted by either and and dec or graham norton. You even get to vote as every week a selection of people are up for parole and you get to text in and decide which evil doer is reformed enough to have back on the street. This benefits the general public in many ways.
1) you get to see what goes on in a prison and if they are on tv being watched by people they may behave better, so the guards get it easier
2) the money raised from the texting can go to paying for the prison are relieve some of the budget strain on us tax payers and the money can go elsewhere.
3) This solves the problem of the reality TV star as some of these people would never get out. Not to mention it taps a unused resource of mentally unstable people who are actually locked up for a good reason rather than the mentally unstable morons who get locked up year upon year with the sole purpose of being a z list celebrity.

I think this could work but then I also think that there should be televised humiliation as a punishment for petty crime where you get named and shamed on prime time Saturday tv and get put in stocks. in you undies and get pelted with rotten food produce I mean I really wouldn't want that and it may make some donkey think again about nicking something, then again they may just try and get on tv more but wouldn't it be satisfying imagine
Host: this it bob from (insert place name) bob was caught breaking into cars and shows little remorse how do you feel now in your shorts
Bob: yeah whateva bleep
Host : lock him in the stocks, ladies and gentleman today we shall be using stones and rotten eggs to pelt the criminal, this was decided by the text vote at the end of last weeks show. Ladies and gentleman throw away.

granted it would make the criminal mad but then lets be honest it's a criminal and should get punished and forced to kneel!! I was recently on the receiving end of a theft and I just like thinking of nice ways to get my own back as I am a reformed character now and I don't think that said person should die but if karma doesn't get him I'm going to study vudoo and get him myself with a hex.

hmm even I think I've gone a bit mad.

[Xbot]

I'd watch if I was able to vote one to die!

[Starscreams Ghost]

lol sorry Grizz I already sent a letter to C4 regarding a death row big brother with the one voted out getting the chop each week with the w inner getting life instead of the death penalty

oddly they didn't reply.......

[Steelimus Prime]

I think it would suffer the same problems as Big Brother, but make undeserving Criminals into celebrates instead of idiots off the street.

When they get out they could be in a better position that they otherwise would be (selling their storys, getting on stupid quiz shows and so on)

[Grizzley8u]

Steel your missing the point celebs are all ready criminals show me a celeb who's not been to rehab or done drugs and I'll show you a liar. This way I get to laugh even harder at the muppets who follow celebrity culture as their new hero will have done something rather bad.
Ghosty see it is a good idea if more than one person comes up with it independently it can't be bad!

[Steelimus Prime]

Despite the fact I dont believe that every celebrate in the world has done drugs... Drugs and rehab arnt really the same as mugging and theft.... or as you have put in the (some of them will never get out) I'm going too presume harder crimes like murder.

Would they sign up for this? Generally criminals are more informed of human rights than regular people. Doubtful that they would want to be ritually humiliated... and if it were a competition for parole then your just encouraging violence and spite.

What we need too do is hunt down anyone who's become a celebrity for doing nothing or having no talent and shooting them into outer space or have them all fight too the death

[sonny]

They already have something like this for those kinds of people...its called "Big Brother"

[Galvy]

i would have to agree.

you may be slightly mad grizzley.
but hey, who isnt.


course id watch it

[kinggrimlock]

What I've always pushed for is Big Brother to be ten people in a house for 10 weeks with nothing to do. Nothing. No alcohol, no books, no tasks, no cooking, no evictions just wake up, sit around and talk, eat at assigned times, go to bed, repeat.... then watch them slowly unwind... then call the 'sanest' one to the diary room and on the chair is a Colt 9mm.

Let the fun begin. You want to be a Z list celebrity? Earn it...