There was a program on last night about extreme television from around the world, they looked at 3 shows for each of their categories and had a "panel" talk about them (made up of that Vanessa woman, an ex blue peter presenter and some other nobodies). It was a rather vain attempt to pretend they were trying to do a serious analysis of violent and nasty things on TV. Of course it wasn't just an excuse to show lots of violent and nasty things on TV, which was the reason I was watching it! :)

I noticed trannies came up a few times, they showed lots of clips of a gender reassignment op from "Cosmetic Surgery Live", and an hillarious japanese wind-up show where a guy has anal sex with a woman and is then shown she's a pro-op TS! The tears of joy were just rolling down his big grinning face! (Seriously, he loved it.)

There were also some really horribly violent and scary shows that came out of russia, including a game show where the contestent has to steal a car, then be chased down across Moscow by armed police who then catch them and beat the sh*t out of them, if not shoot them!

Where does all this end? We keep getting use to the images we see and the producers are trying harder and harder to shock us. It won't be long before we actually see The Running Man on TV. The final and possibly most unnerving thing was from Japan, where virgins loose their virginity live on air, but as shocking and disgusting as we might find that, I can't really see how anyone can stop a consenting adult doing what ever they want to themselves in front of a camera, and I think that is the final boundry. Eventually the law will allow euthanasia, and anyone who is of sound mind will be able to do what they want to themselves. So then the only thing we won't get on TV is the exploitation of unwilling innocents, but then that's happening right now :-/ So when does it end?