It seems like TV producers will take any concept and turn it into a dating show. They run the full gamut, from the earnestness of First Dates to the hilarious Too Hot To Handle; a Netflix show where couples compete to win a pot of money that depletes if they have sexual contact.
“A bunch of gorgeous people are stuck on an island. Some sort of lust archipelago. They’re told they have to go without sex for a month. Any Irish person looking at that thinks ‘I could do that easily.’ I spent most of my teens and twenties going without sex! The unreality is part of the attraction.”
There’s little doubt that if these programmes didn’t net big ratings for TV execs, they wouldn’t keep making them. So what keeps us going back for more? “I think there is reality in it. If there weren’t some genuine people and some genuine connections in them, these shows would be unwatchable.” In this episode of In The News, Freyne analyses the good, the bad and the ugly; and why they make such compelling viewing.
It's soft porn
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