Britain Media’s reacted Against Channel 4's New Naked Dating Show
From Big Brother to Sex Box, the world of TV is always looking for new lows. And this week Channel 4 succeeded. Thousands of viewers complained on Twitter and media guardians branded Naked Attraction — an uncensored nude dating show — the ‘worst programme ever shown on TV’. Broadcasting watchdog Ofcom has already received 24 complaints about nudity. A spokesman for MediaWatch UK said: ‘This has to be the worst programme ever shown on television, there is nothing to recommend it.’
Norman Wells, of the Family Education Trust, accused Channel 4 of ‘grossly irresponsible broadcasting’ and viewers labelled it ‘creepy’ and a ‘new low for British TV’. A spokesman for Channel 4 said last night: ‘This is a light-hearted and appropriately scheduled series which aims to demystify the rules of sexual attraction for the [dating app] Tinder generation.
Sadly, we will never know what Cilla Black would have made of it. But there’s really no avoiding the dispiriting conclusion that Channel 4’s latest reality show Naked Attraction, a nude and heavily sexualised version of Blind Date, the Saturday tea-time institution that dear old Cilla hosted for nearly 18 years, marks a spectacular new low for British television. Of course, the bar could hardly be lower than it already is. Already this year we have been subjected to ITV2’s Love Island, in which one couple copulated in broad daylight while other contestants commented on their love-making technique. But this is worse. From every angle, but especially the one that allows participants to assess the sexual organs of their six would-be dates, Naked Attraction is utterly ghastly, and depressingly degrading.
