Film scores on telly shows

As some of you may know this week the Apprentice has started back up on the BBC this week. Yes it's that time of year again where Lord Alan Sugar will whittle down a bunch of eager, argumentative, brown nosers through a series of bizarre tasks, that supposedly show there business skills, down to one over eager brown noser who is then dubbed the Apprentice.

I've never really been a fan of these types of shows, watching somebody claim superiority and a bunch of people trying to appease their whims to further their careers doesn't scream entertainment for me. I find it embarrassing watching an episode of Friends where, as per several of the later episodes, Ross makes a fool of himself by thinking he's always right. I have to change the channel in those situations, mute it, put my hands over my eyes, anything to not watch a train wreck of a situation.

But as a change of pace the other night when I was up at half four in the morning and for some reason wanted to remain watching TV so I decided to watch The Apprentice on BBC Three. As I mind numbingly witness a bunch of grown people fight over who deserves the blame for what I realized that not only are these people over dramatic but there was something else. While watching I recognized a couple of tunes that seemed familiar to me. I couldn't get it at first but then it came to like a bolt from the blue.

In one of the scenes where they were developing their apps it was being underscored by one of the tunes from Toy story 2. Specifically the tune were the toy fixer (also known as Geri from Geri's game) is fixing Woody up for preservational purposes. Then later on when everyone is heading over to the board room they use one of the opening tunes from TRON Legacy. These are just some of the tunes I recognized from one episode.

And this isn't the first instance that I've noticed this, especially on the Beeb. A couple of months ago on one of the newest episodes of Top Gear, during one of their drag races I recognized while having it on in the background that they were using one of the tunes from the Inception Score. Curiouser and curiouser I started to find it more and more, especially with repeats of Top Gear. They seem to love using tunes of Hans Zimmer's from the likes of  The Dark Knight and Inception during some of their races.

When seeing these tunes used in the cinema, for their original purpose it's brilliant. To see it haplessly slapped on to dramatize some banal show that is otherwise unexciting tarnishes it, I personally love listening to film scores but just watching it being used for something like that takes away from it's glory. If you want good music , get your own. Stop stealing the good stuff.

So what do you think, if they have the money to get this music couldn't you make your own? Do you think it's okay to use the film score? Or do you think that it sucks and these shows don't deserve it?