Kids in television serials and reality shows

Everyone loves kids and, realizing that kids will draw viewers, the television producers instruct their story writers to include kids in their scheme of things – namely, to draw the sympathy of the audience and keep them on tenterhooks so that they remain glued to the couch with the remote in hand and eyes fixed to the TV screen.
Since the TV serials go on for years, the kids change. They grow up and, new kids enter to fill in the void while the previous lot graduates to senior roles. The bottom line is – once in TV, they remain in TV because they get recognition.

Much is talked about child marriages – it is banned by law but the script writer successfully circumvents the law and comes up with serials like Balika Bodhu which translates into Child Bride! There are quite a number of similar serials where kids talk and behave like grownups and, in order to encourage them, they get awards on the special nights where they go on stage, clutch their trophies, beam at the crowd and blow kisses.
And then there are the reality shows on TV – yes, they get opportunities to showcase their talents on shows of music or dance but, putting such shows in the night time slots does more harm than good. We advise our kids to go to bed early, we do not permit them to watch television beyond a certain hour but, when it comes to reality shows in which kids are in the center of things, how can we not allow the kids to stay up and watch the shows?
It may be recalled that Kaun Banega Crorepati or KBC for short which was hosted by Amitabh Bachhan, used to have a show for children. It used to be timed on Sunday morning at 9am, or was it 10am? That is how it should be – let the shows for children, by the children, for the children not get pushed into late night slots that begin art 10pm and goes on till 11.30pm. (to be continued …)
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