TMC
05-07-2015, 02:52 AM
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/television/john-doyle-in-defence-of-freak-show-tv/article24259861/
The kind of "freak show" programming that TLC is moving away from actually has an upside, says John Doyle. "What is sneered at as 'freak show' programs is often a rare elucidation of the underbelly of American society – the poor, the uneducated, the misguided; the fringe-dwellers who do not aspire to be bourgeois," he says. These kinds of people don't usually appear on mainstream TV.
The kind of "freak show" programming that TLC is moving away from actually has an upside, says John Doyle. "What is sneered at as 'freak show' programs is often a rare elucidation of the underbelly of American society – the poor, the uneducated, the misguided; the fringe-dwellers who do not aspire to be bourgeois," he says. These kinds of people don't usually appear on mainstream TV.