TY - JOUR T1 - Reviews: The Shooting Party JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 444 LP - 445 DO - 10.3399/bjgp08X302853 VL - 58 IS - 551 AU - David Watson Y1 - 2008/06/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/58/551/444.abstract N2 - THE SHOOTING PARTY Maverick Television Channel 4, 8.45 a.m. Sundays in April, May & JuneI hate reality telly.I don't see the point in shows like America's Next Top Model where a bunch of beautiful women have their self-esteem destroyed by a vitriolic panel. I don't understand why people who can't sing, cry when Louis Walsh tells them they can't sing. This is the man who gave us Boyzone. He knows a bad singer when he hears one.And as for Big Brother, just the words Davina McCall make me want to vomit, strip naked, smear myself with my own excrement, and run through the streets taking scalps at random with a potato peeler.So imagine my enthusiasm when watching Channel 4's new show The Shooting Party, which takes a disparate group of deaf and disabled people and moulds them into a filmmaking team, giving each of them the opportunity to make a 2-minute film which will be shown on Channel 4. They've hit on the wizard wheeze of turning it into a reality show by following the participants through every part of the filmmaking process, allowing the audience to get to know them as people. Not just as the disabled stereotypes they so obviously are. And it's not going to be just another modern-day freak show, honest! ‘Cause, like, even if the majority of the guys chosen look like they've been found on the sea bed, the … ER -