shindigger Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 Question Time? The quality of contributions from both the panellists and some of the audience can be mind-numbing. Its always worth slapping this up again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
19 year mortgage 8itch Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 Bloody hell what do you lot talk about at dinner parties ? The charity extended to renters with children does not stretch to dinner party invites. So I wouldn't know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Knimbies who say No Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 Don't watch TV at all in the home. I spend the license fee saved renting stuff I actually want to watch instead. Used to listen to R4 a lot, now I don't bother at all either. The degradation of the comedy slots was the final nail in the coffin, some shows are just kept going too long and become stale. There's a beauty in only having one or two well written series. The 6:30pm slot is a dumping ground with some truly atrocious stuff. Switched to 6 music instead but there are some poor shows on there (Lamacq and Hobbs will prompt me to turn off). Overall it is good though. That said, broadcast media is increasingly irrelevant to me for news/current affairs. Inevitable decline imo. Serve up poor or partisan offerings and expect a cheque for £150 every year(not a Beeb specific point as you have to pay regardless of which crock is serving your TV brainwash). No thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpectrumFX Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 ITV 4 is good for repeats of old stuff. I watched kojak this morning, and am now watching Magnum PI. Of an early evening they show a couple of episodes of Cheers back to back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest eight Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 ITV 4 is good for repeats of old stuff. I watched kojak this morning, and am now watching Magnum PI. Of an early evening the show a couple of episodes of Cheers back to back. I always rush to turn off that Barclays ad with the mournful soundtrack that makes attending a premier league football match look like the most miserable experience known to man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riedquat Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 This is all part of the general push to standardise and normalise everything so that everything is for everybody. Personally I like films with killer robots from the future, so I think that all the period dramas and romantic comedies need to be made so that they include killer robots from the future. That way I won`t feel excluded and left out the way that I do now when things come on the tele that haven`t obviously been explicitly designed to appeal to me. I still won`t watch them, but it`s important that everybody accommodates my views and interests at all times, and making a television programme that might appeal to a niche group that doesn't include me is offensive and discriminatory. Red Dwarf once had Kryten blow up a Jane Austen setting with a tank, does that count? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpectrumFX Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 Red Dwarf once had Kryten blow up a Jane Austen setting with a tank, does that count? It`s a start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurt Barlow Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 Anything with Kirsty Allsop in it. Anything with 'celebrity' in the title. X factor, anything similar with dance or whatever. Cookery programmes - sick of them, far too many now. Spring/autumn/winter watch because of Chris Packham's unbelievably annoying accent and his apparent gloating relish at seeing any little creature getting devoured by another. All soaps Nearly all sport Any Questions I'm surprised I still find anything to watch, but I do. Just wait until My Kitchen Rules gets franchised to UKTV - you ain't seen nothing yet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Kitchen_Rules#United_Kingdom SH1t - it has been although to Sky TV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DTMark Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 Its always worth slapping this up again. That's so true to form it might as well be a real episode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DTMark Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 While it occurs to me... one of the most offensive categories of TV ad must surely be for products aimed at new mothers. I have to confess this isn't my area of speciality. However.. There's one about breast feeding which uses the line "if you choose to move on" (from breast feeding) WTF? "No, actually, I don't choose to move on. I still breast feed my son like the mother in Little Britain does.... time for bitty..." IMO these ad campaigns use a form of emotional blackmail to play on the sensibilities and sensitivities of new mothers. You wonder how any of the human race ever managed without SMA baby milk or whatever it is. Germs everywhere, weak bones, rickets and scurvy ought to be commonplace by now given the fecklessness of said mothers for not feeding their offspring whatever it is. Suspect that one might be a personal bugbear of mine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riedquat Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 If you're talking about adverts then quite simply I find them all offensive, the only exceptions being in places where I might deliberately be looking for a product - shop windows, relevent adverts in magazines etc., the rest can go to hell. TV ones are particularly bad, although internet ones can be worse (thank heavens for Adblock Plus). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steppenpig Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 In case he hasn't been mentioned (surely??) anything with Steven Segal in it. On the other hand, I could always watch more of George Seagal. (and I know he's already been mentioned, but also anything with Jonathon "my suit is the most interesting thing about me" Ross) What I would love would be a program/device which blanked all the program categories, actors etc that you hared, so that you could still channel surf, without ever again having to experience that split second of existential despair caused by flicking past yet another soap, celebrity, game show, stevan segal movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scepticus Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 ... so that you could still channel surf, without ever again having to experience that split second of existential despair caused by flicking past yet another soap, celebrity, game show, stevan segal movie. Nice writing, captures my own sentiment entirely. Nothing further to add, except to consider developing a career as a TV critic. And I mean that genuinely, not sarcastically, just for the avoidance of doubt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@contradevian Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 While it occurs to me... one of the most offensive categories of TV ad must surely be for products aimed at new mothers. I have to confess this isn't my area of speciality. However.. Its more the adverts which portray men as twits and women as super beings, I make a conscious note to boycott those products and services. However we've discussed those kind of adverts before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FedupTeddiBear Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 All sports, especially football, with the exception of the ones that Dietrich Mateschitz sponsors, motor racing and air racing. All property ramping programs featuring smug property developers, estate agents and buy to let noddys, especially the bloke who takes a bath in banknotes. All reality TV shows. +1 000 000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InlikeFlynn Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 For all these reasons our telly (which is seldom on) is rarely tuned to anything other than BBC4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crashmonitor Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 Only shows I found watchable on iPlayer this week were 'Top Gear' which is a special set in Burma (I like the specials still, but the studio shows are big yawn) and 'Mind the Gap' and I only watched the latter to be annoyed. Really find iPlayer a struggle to find anything watchable. Pointless Celebrities was kind of entertaining, for the dimwit celebrities, but other than that... Indeed sometimes you get that My God moment somebody you haven't seen in over forty years 9on Pointless Celebs). In my case it was Carol Chell from Playschool circa late 1960s. But will be also familiar to younger members as she continued until 1988. A bit different looking now. https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=carol+chell+from+playschool+1960s&biw=1280&bih=876&tbm=isch&imgil=1dUNwN35OIM8bM%3A%3BYBk9wuWKUznqaM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.derbydeadpool.co.uk%252Fdeadpool2012%252Fcelebs_C.html&source=iu&pf=m&fir=1dUNwN35OIM8bM%3A%2CYBk9wuWKUznqaM%2C_&usg=__WY2I5TZzNAQqeca7gr84HftYkIc%3D&ved=0CCwQyjc&ei=5sXsVMOBCeLZ7ga9uYHQDg#imgdii=_&imgrc=1dUNwN35OIM8bM%3A%3BYBk9wuWKUznqaM%3Bhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.derbydeadpool.co.uk%2Fimages%2Fcelebs%2Fc%2Fchellc.jpg%3Bhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.derbydeadpool.co.uk%2Fdeadpool2012%2Fcelebs_C.html%3B150%3B150 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juvenal Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 Anything where presenters 'have a go' at anything normally done by a specialist - glassblowing, blacksmithing, thatching, pot-throwing etc. The moment some celebrity nonentity dons an apron/boilersuit is the moment I switch off. Anything where Edwina Currie is heard or seen - even from a great distance. Anything where Mary Portas is seen walking along a high street. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Limpet Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 Top Gear F1 Football Jeremy Kyle Made in Chelsea Beyond Belief ( Radio 4 ) Children in Need All Soaps Two Pints Of Lager ( Remember that pile of crap? ) Deal or No Deal Come Dine With Me Meet the Kumars Who do you think you are? Oh the list goes on and on and on and.........................aaaaaaarrrrrggggggghhhhhhhh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bendy Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 The One Show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Generation Game Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 This is all part of the general push to standardise and normalise everything so that everything is for everybody. Personally I like films with killer robots from the future, so I think that all the period dramas and romantic comedies need to be made so that they include killer robots from the future. That way I won`t feel excluded and left out the way that I do now when things come on the tele that haven`t obviously been explicitly designed to appeal to me. I still won`t watch them, but it`s important that everybody accommodates my views and interests at all times, and making a television programme that might appeal to a niche group that doesn't include me is offensive and discriminatory. Are you Rob Grant or Doug Naylor? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_renting Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 All of you... unplug your TV and become licence-free. Come over to the dark side. Seriously, I don't miss TV at all. I rarely even bother with iPlayer now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Hovis Posted February 25, 2015 Author Share Posted February 25, 2015 All of you... unplug your TV and become licence-free. Come over to the dark side. Seriously, I don't miss TV at all. I rarely even bother with iPlayer now. Already there. I do watch a fair chunk of iPlayer but I wouldn't want to go back to having to watch a programme when it's being broadcast; that would be a backwards step so it seems odd that I'd have to pay an annual fee to do that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 I can't watch any telly... Makes my skin crawl when visiting someone and they turn it on. I often leave the room. No joke. I don't own one by the way... Use love film to watch discs on my projector instead. Plus iPlayer for kids to watch Mr Tumble etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Byron Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 About the only thing worth watching is the weather forecast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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