Poor old Trevor McDonald. He has spent years building his career, gaining well deserved respect as one of television's best-loved news anchormen. Then all of a sudden, ITV decide to take a massive dive in terms of their already low-brow credentials and he finds himself as the highly paid presenter of a series of exploitative and sensationalist "specials". His hard-crafted reputation undermined by his being used by ITV to lend credibilty to an increasingly piss-poor series of programmes aimed at the lowest common denominator.
In tonight's programme, the kiss and tell FA secretary is expected to weep in front of the camera in what is no more than an audition to appear on Coronation Street, or more likely, the next series of "I'm a Non-entity, get me in there", the z-list launch pad fronted by giant foreheaded Ant and silk shirt wearing shortarse Dec.
ITV's laughably faux-righteous website, which is choked to the point of being unusable with anything less than 512Kbit broadband by advertising, tries pathetically to promote this shower as a serious and socially responsible piece of programming. I think once the public have seen Faria's side of the story, they are going to ask some serious questions, such as "When will the real news start happenning again?", "Why on earth do I even bother to switch the television to ITV?" and "Why on Earth is Trevor McDonald allowing his good name to be besmirched by this?".
So how do we sort this out? Well, Faria needs to stop taking dirty money from tabloid newspapers, and televsion companies. She shouldn't let any of the glossy bog roll like "Heat" come anywhere near her and should remember that her shelf-life is about to run out and she is going to find herself in the difficult position of being "that woman". Come on Faria, don't end up like Monica Lewinsky and get a grip, you're better than that.
Trevor McDonald should either just retire quietly or say that he's had enough of working for a shit television company who are whoring his reputation to promote shitty, sensationalist crap. ITV need to start making some television programmes worth watching, instead of total fucking tripe about unrealistic women prisoners, or totally unconvincing "dramas" starring Ross Kemp. They need to find a way to break free from a cycle of making totally dreadful television programmes, which goes back to the channel's inception. Not only that, they have a well earned and proven record of turning gold into shit. Look at how they fucked The Goodies, murdered Morecombe and Wise and how the once untouchable, super-cool Des Lynam quickly turned into a tragic old fart as soon as he went to ITV.
