Australia has announced that it will be cancelling Big Father once the current run has ended.
The format has been mired in controversy and, although there are still some loyal fans, the ratings have been steadily declining for years. The current favourite, an 81-year-old German called Benedict, has been irritating viewers by constantly talking about sexual activity.
“Change the subject, Benny!” said one disgusted viewer from Sydney. “It’s like he’s obsessed with sex, sex, sex. He’s always going on about his dodgy priest friends and their disgusting habits. OK, so he hasn’t jumped into bed with any of the other housemates himself, not even when Pamela Anderson was in the house. But he always takes an unhealthy interest whenever anyone else does, urging them to come into the Diary Room with him and tell him all about it. He’s got a bloody cheek, if you ask me.”
A spokesman for Network Ten said that Big Father was being axed after the New South Wales state government was forced to abandon its controversial law banning people from expressing criticism of the show, which has been running since 1054. “Since then, it has become clear that quite a few people are fed up with Big Father constantly focusing on people’s sexual antics,” he said. “In fact, they just think it’s irrelevant, tired and out of date.”
Benedict himself, however, continues to wander aimlessly around the place wearing his favourite funny hat, smiling and waving to the cameras and blissfully unaware of the views of millions of ordinary Australians.
“We did think about calling him into the Diary Room and telling him what people were saying,” said the producers, “But we felt it would be a shame if he became aware of what was going on in the real world. Controversial he may be, but at heart he’s just a well-meaning old codger with quaint, old-fashioned views. We don’t want to burst his bubble.”
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