CAR-CRASH TV Definition & Meaning

car-crash TV

noun

television programmes that show deliberately controversial, disturbing, or horrific material

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�y��vlog History and Origins

C20: from their eliciting in the viewer a similar horrified fascination to that experienced by people watching scenes of cars crashing

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Literal car-crash TV already exists in the form of Pick TV's Road Wars, although personally I prefer the bits between the crashes, where two laconic traffic cops pootle around Slough handing out fixed penalty notices to surly boyracers and telling them to "get those tinted windows sorted."

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At the same time, you watch it slightly willing people to fail, because car-crash TV appeals to us all at some level.

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