At a loose end tonight, I decided to sit through an episode of 'Splash!', ITV's primetime Saturday night celebrity diving contest.
I've witnessed the decline of television quality over the last decade or so, and have managed to rationalise my anger towards drivel such as The X Factor and Britain's Got Talent with the thought that ; 'People derive enjoyment from this rubbish, at the end of the day, they're not harming anyone, are they? Let them get on with it.'
This show, however, plumbs the very depths of 'entertainment' - right from the embarrassing hosts to the pathetic, worthless, deluded and self-important 'celebrity' contestants.
I've now arrived at the conclusion that, if TV bosses continue to scrape the very bottom of the barrel that is reality tv - in their attempts to squeeze every last scenario and context from its rotting corpse, then we're genuinely going to reach the stage where a show similar in nature to 'The Running Man' - as seen in the popular but overplayed movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, is the only possibility left on the table. And you know what? People will absolutely lap it up.