This week Sedgemoor FM's DJ Dave talks reality television

I’ve starting noticing a trend on some television shows, mostly American ones.

I would never describe myself as a telly addict. The last time I watched Eastenders, Roly the dog was still around, Annie Walker was still behind the bar in Coronation Street, Emmerdale was still just a farm and Love Thy Neighbour wasn’t seen as being in any way wrong.

That said there are some shows I do watch and it’s at the start and/or end of these I have spotted this new trend. What is it? They have started displaying a disclaimer saying that the show is fiction.

Have we really reached a point where we are unable to separate reality from an author’s work? I’m not talking about shows like National Treasure which was based on a subject that has affected far too many people over the years, but I’m referring to far more mundane storylines.

I remember in an interview with Midge Ure that he’d told me he’d written a song called Beneath A Spielberg Sky as he felt that the lines were starting to blur and was worried that we were becoming immune to certain things, especially in the news, due, in part, to special effects in films and also video games too.

Let’s hope we don’t have to get to the stage where we have to have a 'This Is Not Real Life' banner displayed before the latest instalment of Fireman Sam.

You can hear Dave Englefield on the Breakfast Show on 104.2 Sedgemoor FM, weekdays from 6am