This morning on the Today programme there was a feature about how Radio 4 was failing to replenish it’s audience and that the audience it has was predominantly over fifty and living in the South East. Hardly a surprise. The gentleman presenting the research pointed out the fact that it is a predominantly metrocentic country and the ruling class elite all live in and around London. When they said that the station needed to attract younger listeners I groaned initially, but what they actually meant (incredibly) were people in the thirty to fifty bracket.
This reminded me about Charlies Brooker’s accurate assessment on How TV Ruined your LIfe of the modern world being one where, at least in how they are represented in the media, people are perpetually young – in a state of arrested development. A condition that is increasingly beginning to grate now that the Tories are taking a giant dump on us all. I mean, look at these two self satisfied young chaps. Only, they’re not really that young anymore. They are of course millionaires by now probably – no wonder they look so happy.
Spaced, a sitcom about some immature late-twenty somethings first hit our screens in the late nineties or something. Don’t get me wrong, I loved it, and Shaun of the Dead etc. But what are these forty something men doing now? Even the trailer for their new project ‘Paul’ fails to elicit any real laughs (I can’t even be bothered to link it). It looks stupid and lazy. And Edgar Wright’s last film Scott Pilgrim was the most self indulgent piece of crap, no really it was. He needs to stop hanging around with Quentin Tarantino and grow up.
If thirty to fifty is now regarded as young then we really are in trouble.
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