TV'S SCRIPTS BECOMES IN TEACHINGS

How many times has been branded TV like "telegarbage", "stupid box", "off-neurons ",...? But my theory is always will be that if the viewer wants to have quality television should make the effort to look for it, because, yes, we can find a good legacy from television.

The Star newspaper has published an article titled "A kind of wisdom on the small screen." It wants to prove that sometimes television is also education.

How many gaps in your education would you have if you never had watched television? This is theory of the report. To show it, they have gathered which they consider the best phrases from American television programs (mostly fictional). Quotations that make us think, that make us smile because they are brutally honest, and they describe us exactly how is the life of our specie. From the list published I selected the 15 best for me. And for you, what is the best?

"I think the lesson here is, does it matter where are you from while we will have the same religion?". By Peter, “Family guy”.

"Fortune is like you call who is fucking you when you do not know its real name".. Lois, “Malcom X”.

"Barnes has just break one of the main rules of politics: you never get caught in bed with a dead woman or a man alive". J.R., “Dallas”.

"Why did you have to break with her? Be a man. Just let to call her". Joey, “Friends”.

"We live as if the world was as it should be, to show what they can become”. Angel, “Angel”.

"Remember when your history teacher told you that the course of events what lives people are changing for the sacrifice of the big men? Well, that bitch was lying. Fucking to Caesar, to Lincoln and to Gandhi! The world continues to move for you and me, the anonymous. Revolutions are coming because there is not enough bread. Wars happen by an imbalance of money”. Augustus Hill, “Oz”.

"In life you have to do a lot of things that you, actually, don’t want to do. Often this is what life is... an ugly and dirty trick after another”. Al Swearengen, “Deadwood”.

"Normal is what is halfway between what you want and what you have”.
Samantha, “Sex and the city”.

"The truth is like sunlight. People thinks that is good for you”. Nancy Gribble, “King of the hill”.

"Don’t blame anotherone for prepar the trap in where you was so stupid to fall”. Abe Carver, “Days of Our Lives”.

"Without rules we would be uploaded in a tree through us our own shit each other”. Red, “That '70s Show”.

If you are going to lie, be creative or you will bore all us”. Green, “Law and Order”.

"With all my respect, you haven’t no fucking idea what is to be the Number One. Every decision you take affects every facet of every fucking thing you will do later. It is too much to handle everything. And at the end you are completely alone with it". Anthony Soprano, “The Sopranos”.

"I don’t have anything against education, while it doesn’t interfere with what I think”. Ben Cartwright, “Bonanza”.

"If more of our so-called leaders would walk on the same streets where walks people who vote, if they would live in the same buildings, and eat the same food, instead of glass, steel and bodyguards, maybe we would have better leaders more worry for our futures". John Sheridan, “Babylon 5”.

Particular importance have the scripts of two of the most successful series currently. A great fault of their succes are the fascinating appointments. Here I leave you two videos… maybe someone doesn’t know this “worship series”: “Grey’s Anatomy” and “House”.Sometimes, maybe just sometimes, we can learn emotional lessons with television...

WHEN TELEVISION THINKS WELL

Television is not static, never still. It’s always moving, searching for new ways to connect with the public, new ways to get their attention, new ways of doing television and provide treatments and different approaches.

But not only in the commercial field (where they are more obsessed with) but also in hunting the best format to get a good audience. Sometimes matters if this subject could be ethically correct. Most of the public channels have contributed greatly to the evolution of a television will educate and show worthy values.

One of the most prestigious public television and most have done for this evolution, the BBC, has done something that no every media would do: the gathered together in a conference room two people: one was a widow of a victim of terrorism, and at his side, the murderer who killed her husband. People might think that the channel was using terrorism as a central theme of a new talk show, but BBC did not.
Actually, that was a proposed charged by a Nobel Peace Prize, as the Archbishop Desmond Tutu, trying in a direct and responsible way, calling for dialogue rather than scandal, the rehabilitation of terrorists.

This was one of the chapters in a series of three documentaries titled like “Facing the truth”. The objective was to reach reconciliation with the protagonists of the conflict in Northern Ireland, through regret and forgiveness, acts extremely difficult to assume on these cases. One purpose daring and risky.

A format of this type, in the wrong hands, could become the latest formula to find the sickness television. But the approach that gave the British public channel was solemn, I would say that even beautiful. Something very difficult to achieve. Not only the fact of to gather these characters together, but also the result, which was ethically worthy. We can not forget how particularly difficult is to find this kind of programmes on television today.