Why don't the babeshows ever get nominated for BAFTA/TV awards?

I mean I know the simple answer which is the fact that much of society are still prudes. But why does it have to be this way? I've been thinking about this for a while now. The babeshows are legitimate channels, are they not? Just because you might be an old prude who dislikes sexuality doesn't make Babestation or Studio66 any less legitimate than BBC or ITV.

Quite frankly I'm sick of the same TV channels, shows and actors getting the same awards every year. I'm particularly sick of Ant & Dec.

And I'm not joking when I say I see much better acting from the babes than on any of the soaps or many other TV shows these days.

Well not to be mean to the girls but taking your clothes off and shaking your tits isnt really a talent

A very good question indeed and i've thought about this a lot too.
I think that there's enormous potential.
There'd have to be compromises and sexuality would probably be the loser but that's ok there's 99.9% of the internet doing that.
How about this:

All the staff in teamwear. Option 1 relationships; Option 2 careers; option 3 health; Option 4 financial.....
Sort of a TV version of the Samaritans.

Or what about what you have now made as a TV programme hosted by Charmaine Sinclair a bit like Ideal World Friday Fashion.

There was that piece on here a month or so ago that explained that the premis of the babeshows is fundamentally wrong. So change it and make it mainstream in the process. We need people with vision and money to make it happen. Then get a BAFTA.

Here's another thing: Why are they on 24/7? Do they have to be? Would it be more of an occasion if they did fewer hours and higher quality?

They are tele shopping channels, selling a premium rate number so guys can have a wank.
The adult industry has awards that the channels and girls are covered by, they aren't mainstream entertainment.

The shows are longform adverts not programmes. As such, if anything, the British Arrows Awards would be more the thing, not the BAFTAs. Neither are in any way likely atm though are they; not in any immediate future I can see. The babe channels are simply not accepted enough by the mainstream (although the one good thing OF is doing, IMO, is in helping erode the familiar general stigma around adult performers).

Ofcom and other censorious factions crushed the channel's first attempts to reach mainstream cultural acceptance over a decade ago (part of the same movement that eventually eradicated Page 3 and helped sink the lads mags). It's a long road back from there for sure but the first steps may have already been taken.

(11-09-2020 17:04 )goatman222 Wrote:  Well not to be mean to the girls but taking your clothes off and shaking your tits isnt really a talent

Flippant and amusing but a little harsh. What you state is hardly all there is to good babe-ing. There IS skill in the process if done well. (If there wasn't then no one would fail at it.) There's some little craft in leveraging the expression of sexuality and personality in a way that twists the arms of guys such that they can't help but indulge their desire to interact. It is part presentation, part performance; part the application of psychological guile and part of capitalistic endeavour.

These days this can include the babe juggling methodologies as she looks to optimise our use of multiple, sometimes counteracting, pay streams - 3, 4 or maybe even 5 running at once. What capitalises on one revenue stream may cause a downturn in another. What is optimal is not always obvious and the babe has to know her audience and their proclivities, in each moment, more than ever before. (She must also weigh growing her audience against making the most of those already there.)

(11-09-2020 17:18 )Chrisst Wrote:  ...the premis of the babeshows is fundamentally wrong. So change it and make it mainstream in the process...

And most likely lose almost every USP that monetises the channels in the process.

One thing is for sure.
They don't half ramp up my phone bills

Best Phone Twiddler.

Best Bra in a supporting role.

BAFTA Fellowship Award - Given to those who should have retired years ago but are too lazy to get a proper job.

Best Lighting (Not including fucking purple fluorescent tubes)

Best Music - assuming the Judges aren't driven Mental by the crap we have inflicted on us.

Best Production Values - The only award that will never be won

etc.

The shows will never win an award for Best Cinematography since they got rid of the guys/girls behind the camera and replaced them with remotes

(11-09-2020 18:20 )ShandyHand Wrote:  ....juggling methodologies....

I'm not convinced they over-think this or expend that much effort in the way you suggest.

The shows are basically now webcams in all but name, and only because some of them happen to have some residual connection with TV channels, but it cannot be that much longer before the need for that connection withers to the point that the effort of sustaining the TV exposure becomes uneconomic. Pandemic lockdown has probably just hastened that process of attrition.

I wonder whether the webcam thing is just an industry term, the girls talk about 'webcammin'.
If they lose that TV then they're just some sordid thing from a back room in someone's flat rather than national TV which was the original point.