Silly TV shows creates silly minds

I know there has been a lot of hoo har on the recent guy who talks about squatters. May he rot in pieces. Too many people have written on that so I will not waste my time on this.

Let us talk about something else. Ever wonder why the minds of the newer generation does not seem to work properly these days?

You can blame it on the TV shows on our television. Recently there are more and more silly TV shows appearing on our TV screen. Those folks who have money to pay for Astro (there seems to be no other alternative to this) are lucky since they are not bombarded with clueless half-baked TV shows.

Forget about RTM. They used to be full of good shows in the 80's and slowly became a degenerated old man who does not seem to know what kind of shows to show anymore. There is no focus at all. The Olympic coverage was poor beyond recognition. "Majulah Sukan untuk Negara" was constantly uttered by the commentator and yet we are watching half hearted effort to show Malaysians what is sports. No wonder we cannot get a gold medal. There is no effort to even promote sports by our local television.

Also all those silly local TV shows that are now appearing on prime time (e.g. from 8.30 pm onwards) by RTM is rather lame. We get sub standard local concerts that I will not consider entertainment but rather a pain to my ears and eyes. Through the years, RTM1 lost focus on what they wanted to show and so did RTM 2. That is why we get youngsters these days "lepak" here and there because they have lost focus. My theory is these two are related.

How about TV3, NTV7, 8TV and TV9? I think these channels are starting to lose their focus too. We get some really silly local TV dramas lately. Some of them are pretty good if there were collaboration from oversea production companies but a number of them are just pile of rubbish.

Recently, there was the Ampang Medical. Sigh. There have been many many many great medical series from US such as ER and Grey's Anatomy to name a few. It is great for the Malaysian production house to come up with a local flavour but do you have to copy the whole scenario and on top of that based the whole series on Grey's Anatomy? Where is the brain? Where is the creativity? If I were to do it, I would have focussed more on medical terms and symptoms of diseases. That way, we can educate the general public on health. Of course you can thrown in some medical love story and drama along the way but the focus is on basic medical knowledge. So at least it is educational and entertaining at the same time. But this show is plain absurb. So if the producers are reading, please take it off air and not waste time.

Then there are some really silly game shows like 1,2 Jus and Double Triple or Nothing to name is few is totally crap. The prize is crap, the host is crap and the whole execution is crap. It could have been better executed. It looks like the people in the game show is having all the fun but the fun could not be translated to the viewers. Some other game shows like Kan Cheong Kitchen and Go Go Go is better but the execution could be further improved. These are some great effort. By the way, I have given up on RTM and have not watched any of their shows for a long time now.

Let us look at some English shows and movies. Hmmm they do no really exist until after 10.30pm. Sigh, everyone have to stay up late sometimes just to catch a good movie. No wonder the standard of English in Malaysia is not up to part these days.

Basically, our local TV shows have not shown any improvement in the last few decades. Local drama still full of actress with extremely thick make-ups and scripts are all full of nonesense. Of course there are some improvements with some dramas. But most of the game shows usually will leave a bad aftertaste if you watch if for too long. No wonder pirated DVD industry is flourishing in Malaysia. And recently the TV shows are not really balanced. A lot of bad Malay drama is being showed at prime time but all the great English dramas and movies are all pushed to the late hours. It looks like there is not much of a Hindi or Tamil shows until recently some were shown in TV9.

As a multicultural country, I would appreciate some balance. I prefer some good quality drama to watch not just simply throw them on the TV because you need to get some producers or directors make a living. Make them really earn a living not just put simply anything on the TV. If you put silly shows, you get silly people.

Of course there are other additional contribution but all of you should know that by now.