If your presenter is sacrificing herself to an experiment so ill advised and exposing that she is reluctant to share it with any expert she speaks to. If your subject’s fragile relationship breaks down during filming of their IVF treatment and has, along with the home life with her existing five children, for years been the fodder for damaging tabloid scrutiny.
We’ll start with this week’s abysmal Go Back to Where You Came From, a new series whose title is tediously provocative and in which a handful of Britons who believe you should sink every boat in the Channel lest the UK become a Muslim country within 10 years, with a couple of bleeding hearts thrown in for good measure, head off on tour to Syria and Somalia to see the reality of what many asylum seekers are fleeing. And during which one woman, observing a child pulling scrap metal out of a skip in Raqqa, proposes that they probably got an “entrepreneurial kick out of it”.
Baroness Owen warns Vicky Pattison against creating the deepfake (Photo: Channel 4)If you need to take someone to the most dangerous place in the world to remind them of their humanity, they’re probably not the kind of person worth putting on TV. Especially if, rather than meaningfully engage with the conditions and politics that have led to greater support for the far right, all you really want is for your audience to sneer at them.
But My Deepfake Sex Tape, in which she enlisted adult actors to create a sex tape that would then have her likeness imposed onto it using AI, and which she then uploaded onto the internet, was a misfire.
She spoke, thoughtfully, to victims and campaigners, but while she was horrified and upset upon seeing the images AI could create, the exercise could not hope to really explore the life-destroying impact of this crime – because she did it to herself.
Katie Price: Making Babies might be the most infuriating of all. I really like Price. I always have. I don’t think you could watch her on television and not feel charmed, a bit protective, a bit concerned about her, and so a series following the then-45-year-old as she tries to conceive more children, which she states many times are what give her life meaning, with a man (boyfriend Carl Woods) she is certain will leave her if she can’t, completely lets her down.
Price and Woods are clearly desperate for a baby (Photo: Channel 4/Captive Minds)Why I only want to watch TV about terrible people
Read MoreI’m not Mary Whitehouse. I’ve watched all sorts of bad taste, seedy, possibly ethically dodgy TV with gimmicks that trivialise very sensitive or pressing subjects – much of it on Channel 4. But there’s a difference between unorthodox and exploitative, and that distinction lies in what the audience is supposed to feel while watching.
If that, sincerely, is intrigued, challenged, surprised, and as if our assumptions have been overturned, then risky gambits are worth it. If we are being made to feel contempt, judgement, disdain or snobbery toward the participants then it isn’t just them being exploited – it’s us, too.
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