The state of a country brought to chaos by a TV-show.

[Manifest]

So for some time now there has been a TV show running in my country called "Crazy about dance" or however you want to translate it.

I don't care about it, its just some show alike to x-factor or something like that; where celebrities dance with each other or something, I don't even know the premise.

But see here, this was a new season where they invited an old football player (again, I don't care, but a huge part of my country does).

See, my country seems to be somewhat of a football nation (soccer, or whatever.), so when it was announced that this guy was going to be in the next season everyone was jizzing their pants in excitement.

Now, the show is based a lot on SMS votes, it can even overturn the judges's scores by a mile, so naturally the guy steamrolled the competition to the dismay of the regular watchers, since apparently he is extremely bad at dancing.

So last Friday (I think) he was finally sent out of the competition, which many expect was at the hands of the editors. And now half the nation is in a rage over this, posting and spamming every single crevice with their disapproval of this happening. Meanwhile the regular watchers are in celebration and are all screaming about how good it is he was sent out of the show.

So to sum it up the nation somehow got into a genuine storm over some god damn TV show about dancing.

In all truth it was all so, so, SO predictable, the show only invited the guy because they knew it would attract a lot of new viewers, hence more money, that much is obvious. And now that the whole thing has spiraled out of control they are trying to initiate damage control so the cash cow isn't killed by the football fans that wont watch a new season if some football icon isn't involved, that has since led to more chaos with even a police report being filled against TV-network.

Its almost too good to be true, but eh, I'm just sitting on the sidelines enjoying the bonfire.

Now a more concrete reason for a thread, is the question; What kind animosity is it going to take to get in to a fit over a freaking TV-show that will be milked to eternity any way, and on the other side then get in to a fit when a simple joke is killed?

I don't know, I just wanted to share some funnies, have a good evening, morning, or what ever timezone you are in.

Edited November 25, 2013 by Vanamonde
Mildly languagey.

[Requiem762]

The network will probably milk the controversy as long as they can to keep interest in the show up and I feel they may try to do the same thing next season. I'm in the same boat as you because I don't really care about gimmicky celebrity/talent related shows and in the US there is the occasional controversy but nothing on the scale you have described. What country did this happen to?

[Manifest]

Denmark. (message too short, try again.)

[Needles_10]

“If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.â€Â

- Confucius

This doesn't apply to music alone, of course.