Wednesday, February 07, 2007

Mega Serial Addiction

Television came to Kerala during 1980’s. Those days, there was only one channel and unlike today, it was not a 24-hour programme channel. The programmes were restricted to few hours. The programmes were selected and many even promoted positive aspects of life. The news programmes were brief and showed only what was required. With time, new channels emerged and the number of channels counts to dozens. There is a special channel for news, cartoon, discovery, animals, fashion, and cinema to name a few. With the increase in number of channels, the quality has come down to almost nil. One gets to see more of so-called mega serials, which helps the audience shed buckets of tears or simply get carried away with reel life. Most of these serials also shows violence, particularly of domestic nature. Once addicted to this mega-serial, moving away from the mini-screen is a tough aspect. Even in case of showcasing other programmes, the channels vie each other for fame and money.

How can you remain away from this addiction? There is only one solution: Stay away from watching those serials which have hundreds of episodes, are of less quality when it comes to the story part. Only self-control and self-decision can help you remain away from this mega serial craze.

I would like to hear from readers what you think of Mega Serial Addiction. Mail me your comments at resmi.blog at gmail.com.

Selected comments will be included in the story about mega serial addiction (hoping I would write one in the near future) for any of the publications I work for or will be used in my website (when updated) and written as a feature along with comments from the readers.

3 comments:

Hopeful Indian said...

Megathodar is what it goes by in tamil nadu, and with the same results of getting viewers hooked to follow the story line. Earlier, there was variety in entertainment including comedy serials and nataks but now it's just mega serials n game shows. Idiot box it definitely is :)

shibu said...

Mega Serials are really threats..to the bonds between family and the bonds between the society...nobody nowadays are getting time to spend with their families;to spend with their friends(which was there some years back)...so conflicts have aroused..between eachother and they are not getting time for negotiations!!.. most of the guests and visitors during "Serial Slots" are treated as usual beggars now!!...

അനില്‍ ഐക്കര said...

Nice topic, nice study,nice discussive matter....May you kindly post it to the interactive community mandaram?