Terra Nova: The public face of computer gamers

Terra Nova: The public face of computer gamers: "Granada TV here in the UK just phoned me about a short series called Game Stars they�re going to make. It�s basically an awards show, one of the aims of which is to find 'the UK�s best computer gamer'. The result will be a number of programmes that will be shown over the course of several evenings. They ran a pilot last year, and had 10,000 people turn up at the ExCel centre in London to take part.
Well, actually they had 10,000 male people aged between 16 and 25.
Granada are aware that the words 'computer games' and 'competition' aren�t female-friendly, and that they can therefore once again expect that those attending their event will not reflect the true make-up of computer gamers across the UK. They are keen to redress this imbalance by, in the narrative part of the programmes, showing pictures of (among others) women gamers playing games in real life. Hopefully, this will go some way to erasing the impression they would otherwise give that computer games are the sole preserve of enthusiastic spods yet to discover the meaning of the word �shampoo�."