BBC Three is plumbing new depths of kiddy-brained stupidity with its current series My Life As An Animal, where grown adults voluntarily live as animals for four days in order to… well I don’t know what the point of it is, to be honest. In an episode the other week, I watched some people living in a pig sty. Tonight, they’re pretending to be penguins and seals.
As part of the experience they sleep in capivity with the animals. According to the voiceover, a passing thunderstorm is adding to the realism.
It might work if it was a kids’ programme and, indeed, the daft script (at the end, the participants are “released” as “humans”) and the presence of the patronising Terry Nutkins creates the impression that it is. But, ludicrously, the human guinea pigs in tonight’s programme seem to be in their late twenties or possibly early thirties. One of them is called Johnno and says things like “I don’t like the rejection the penguins have given me”. He describes the creatures as “scruffy, small, waterproof chickens”. The programme is screened at 9pm.
BBC Three is aimed at 16-34 year olds. I fall comfortably within this age bracket, so why do I think My Life As An Animal is crap? Am I betraying my demographic? People performing animal squawks. Repeated excursions that do nothing except reveal that most captive animals act indifferently towards humans when they enter zoo enclosures. I haved one word: Why?
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BBC3 is aimed squarely at 18-34 y o morons. That said it’s not especially surprising to me.
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