Dead Famous

I finished reading Dead Famous by Ben Elton. This one is about a Big Brother TV show, except his is called "House Arrest". One of the contestants is murdered but, despite all the cameras and microphones, no-one saw who did it. It's not until over 2/3rds of the way through that he reveals which one was the victim. In the interests of ratings the show continues. The investigating officer is an older, very straight-laced man who just doesn't understand the younger generation. Elton always has a couple of themes running through his books which he expounds on while just seeming to tell the story. In this book he gets stuck into the vacuousness of the Big Brother generation.
"But they were all irritating. Or at least they were to (Inspector) Coleridge. Every single one of them, with their toned tummies and their bare buttocks, their biceps and their triceps, their tattoos and their nipple rings, their mutual interest in star signs, their endless hugging and touching, and above all their complete lack of genuine intellectual curiosity about one single thing on this planet that was not directly connected with themselves."
He also has a go at the producers of reality shows like this and goes to great lengths to show how the footage shown on TV is heavily editing and manipulated to present a completely false picture. Ratings are the be all and end all and anything, even murder, can be justified if it gets people watching and sponsorship dollars rolling in.
Well worth a read - strong language warning though.