The BBC isn't really known for being too daring with its programming. After all, that's not really what dear old Auntie is about, is it? The Beeb is there to provide us with banal, safe and somewhat beige programming like My Family or Songs of Praise.
Although there is the odd foray into the risqu?, which takes the form of some tripe that's written by Susan Nickson of Two Pints of Lager & A Packet of Crisps/Grown Ups/Coming of Age fame. You know, those shows that are so bad that even the trailers aren't funny.
But the BBC has taken the brave choice of broadcasting someone?s death on national television.
That's right, in the ultimate act of voyeurism that we were all warned about in numerous science fiction books, you will be able to see a man die, right there on your telly.
It'll be like his stinking corpse is actually right there with you in your living room, ready to reach out through the set and throttle you for gawping at his demise whilst stuffing your face with Malteasers.
Naturally, this spectacle is being presented as part of some sort of educational series that takes a look at the human body, which eventually does just stop working and leaves us lying in a pool of our own vomit after a night spent snorting cocaine off the backs of suspiciously young looking Eastern European girls we found in the back of a Yellow pages.
But the main selling point is obviously the televised death of this fellow by the name of Gerald, who died at the very start of the year, in his home, surrounded by his family? and a camera crew who were probably more concerned about mundane details like the lighting or camera angles instead of how best to sensitively portray the deep emotions everyone is going through at that exact moments.
The heartless bastards, they probably jabbed his granddaughter in the ribs just so they could get some footage of someone crying as a cutaway shot.
Because nothing says BAFTA like a child crying over the death of a loved one.
For those of you morbid enough to want to watch something that hasn't been written by Susan Nickson dying on the BBC, then Gerald?s last moments on Earth are to be broadcast during Inside the Human Body on May 12th.
For the rest of us, there's always the Jeremy Kyle show.
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