Consuming curiosity I was among more than 11 million people in Britain that watched the finale of Celebrity Traitors, with the number expected to rise further with catch-up viewing. It shows that television viewing is not entirely dead and that some shows can still command a faithful following, with a popular appeal that extends across different demographic groups of viewers. None of them, I would suggest, considers that they are “consuming content”. Rather they are watching a show, an elaborate party game, partly from fear of missing out, to avoid inadvertently discovering the outcome, which has little meaning in the real world. In many ways it was a consummate piece of television.
William CooperEditor
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