So-called “celebrities” on TV

I think of it as a sort of a club - you come on our show and we'll come on yours. It's usually the same celebrities on most things. They are usually promoting a book or something, especially in shows like Graham Norton.

Maybe it's to encourage very average people to become celebs so the TV channels can make yet more programmes about celebs appearing on celeb programmes. They wouldn't want to run it all dry. Ask children at school what they want to be later on and you would be surprised.

The Holden/ Carr one is weird .

Clive James wasn't a travel expert.

He was, whisper it, a celebrity!!!

So let's reword this as "why are there people on TV that I don't like?"

I suppose they all have to earn a crust, but some seem so desperate, they’d go to the opening of an envelope! Usually I avoid this type of offering too.

Never mind celebrities what gets up my goat is failed politicians being given airtime.

My biggest bugbear is Portillo landing the plum Railways gig - I love railway travel programmes and have to watch it through gritted teeth as can't stand him!

I agree! Celebrity does this, does that, goes here or there... Travel shows, for example, we're usually hosted by those specialising in that genre - Alan Wicker, Clive James, Judith Chalmers etc.
I miss straight comedy shows too. We do have them but there's more than likely a serious edge, like Motherland.
There some celebrity shows I like, like QI and also the Marigold Hotel travel shows.
Winge over!

They're aren't "so-called" celebrities. They are actual real celebrities. Not everyone has to like these celebrities, but that doesn't stop them being celebrities.

I know what you mean Maw. Sometimes I haven’t even heard of the ‘celebrities’.
Undoubtedly they have more viewer-pulling power than a panel filled with parents-at-the-school-gate, or folk-at-the-pub or even Gransnetters.
I’d like to be a ‘celebrity’ on a travel programme, but my 5-7 year old fans wouldn’t be interested.

I thought it was part of an ongoing campaign by the Beeb to send us anti-slebs to seek out other forms of entertainment.

I agree there are SO many of these and they are awful.

EXCEPT Richard E Grant, Write around the World, he was so interesting and informative.

I totally agree and don’t watch programmes with so called celebrities in them. I don’t mind the shows such as Celebrity Masterchef or Children in need as it’s for a good cause. House renovation travel programmes and gardening programmes should be left for the professionals to present.

Because they are comedies, not really panel shows? And nobody want to watch you and me telling lies on TV?

I've not seen the "doing up a bathroom one" so I'll reserve judgement 😜

OK that was my starter for 10.
Now
Why have programmes (just) designed for celebrities to appear on?

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Why do celebrities appear on TV shows designed for celebrities to appear on?

Ah, its one of the mysteries of the ages...