There was actually a show just like the one shown at 7:12 on one the music channels, could be The Box. It was called The Gimp and people would text in and make him do stuff, similar to what's being shown.
Penance TV is actually reminiscent of a Guardian column Brooker wrote 2-3 years ago. And also appears in his book "The Hell of It", available from all good bookstores. Fantastic concept, humiliate the little ASBO toerags!!!
CSI seems to be having rather an interesting effect on juries in the US. Because the show basically deus ex machinas its way through every case, the public assumes that's what forensic science really looks like. As such, real forensic investigators are finding that juries are unwilling to accept anything but 100% guaranteed facts from them, something that current techniques and even science itself doesn't really trade in. The bar has been raised from no reasonable doubt to no possible doubt.
That reminds me. There haven't been a lot of milkmen over the past two decades. I wonder if, by "internet milk", he means milk that you can order from the internet...Then again, we already have online grocery shopping. Also, the Bookdrum looks like a cross between an oversized zoetrope and a Ludovico device.
Looking back, how fake was (Noel's House Party) NTV!? Like, "O yes, lets put a rather large ancient-looking non-conspicuous camera on top of the t.v. and hope they don't notice!!" Utter crap!!! The actors earned their money for sure, the fake, surprised expressions were priceless though!!
the penance channel actually sounds like the perfect torture devices to all these celebrities in the news that i want out of the news. think about it Gamu doing all this stuff just to stay in Britain and she'll do it no matter what it is maybe at one point you could break her will and just have her willingly go back to her own country and we can finally bury the so called talent show X factor for the more entertaning NOTHING thats right an entire show of nothing.
