MKR and Scripted Remarks

In the interests of a peaceful home front existence I have been watching and following the Australian cooking competition My Kitchen Rules.

Leaving aside my consternation with the complete Anglo Saxon obsession with cooking TV shows and programs, an obsession that most Europeans find bewildering, it never ceases to amaze me just how scripted the contestant's off stage (sorry off kitchen) remarks can be.

• "If we don't cook better than (whoever), then will get knocked out" - remarks made in a knock out cook out.
• "I am really nervous about the next stage of the competition" - another remark made in the knock out part of the competition.
• "You must produce your best plates yet! Otherwise you will be eliminated! - remark by one of the judges in the knock part of the competition.

Once you focus on these off kitchen remarks it becomes increasingly obvious that they were all written by the show's script writers.

Another example of the way popular so-called reality shows are dumbed down to eliminate all spontaneity and leave nothing to chance.