Clever is the new dumb. So here are my suggestions for a better class of reality showCould we be witnessing the end of the Age of Ignorance? For years the culture has been dominated by witless pop music, stupid films, and so-bad-it-doesn't-need-an-adjective reality TV.
But perhaps change is afoot. A former keyboard player with a second-rate band is now a particle physicist at the universe-unravelling Large Hadron Collider; Big Brother has just recorded its lowest-ever ratings; cinema is once more engaging with serious issues, in documentary and fictional forms; and Jeremy Kyle is under fire, though sadly not literally.
Guardian
