BBC Daytime TV: Obsessed with Property and Antiques

Oliver14

davidlizard wrote: »

What a load of tosh the BBC put on during the day time. Take for example, the schedule for tomorrow. We have TEN programs that are either based around property or antiques - that's nearly 8 hours in total.

I am all for keeping the costs down and showing repeats, low budget stuff and the like during the day when most licence payers are at work, but can we at least have a bit of variation in what is offered?


BBC1:
0600-0915: News
0915-1000: Heir Hunters - Find out who inherits a house - PROPERTY
1000-1100: Homes under the Hammer: PROPERTY
1100-1130: Britains Empty Houses: PROPERTY
1130-1215: Cash in the Attic: ANTIQUES
1215-1300: Bargain Hunt: ANTIQUES
1300-1345: News
1345-1415: Doctors
1415-1500: Escape to the Country: PROPERTY
1500-1505: News
1505 onwards: Kids Programs

BBC2:
0600-1200: Kids Programs
1200-1230: Daily Politics
1230-1300: GMT with George Alagiah
1300-1345: Diagnosis Murder
1345-1430: To Buy or not to Buy. PROPERTY
1430-1500: Restoration Roadshow: ANTIQUES
1500-1545: Flog it: ANTIQUES
1545-1630: Helicopter Heroes
1630-1715: Pointless
1715-1800: Put your money where your mouth is. ANTIQUES.

Maybe get a job then you wouldn't be at home to watch the programs.

nickyhutch

If I'm ever off sick, this crap on the telly drives me back to work pretty quick. If I was on the dole I'd be out of the house like a shot.

geo555

How much do you want to pay for your license?
They make these programs because they are cheap. It gives those stay at homers a bit of hope that they might one day have a better house or make a few quid finding a Stradivarius at a car boot sale.
It's not compulsory to watch these and there is always Jeremy Kyle on the other side!

redmike123

Funny thing, we are consistently told how the BBC offers value for money, how its apolitical, how it represents Britain, how it makes great programmes and how "all round great" it is.

Even more amusing, I think its only the BBC saying this- I am not aware of any other organisation either here or anywhere else in the world that praises the BBC.

The BBC is good at congratulating itself for being great, but it should remember that self praise is no praise at all.

hubb

Too many medical dramas. Too many dark, grey and depressing murder dramas (why does Britain thrive on misery as if there isn't enough already?)

Radio 3 and 4 all the way for me. Far better. BBC4 also.

RadoJo

Oliver14 wrote: »

Maybe get a job then you wouldn't be at home to watch the programs.

Perhaps the OP works from home? Not everyone who is able to watch daytime TV is unemployed, and to think that they are suggests a fairly narrow understanding of the world of work.

grimsalve

I quite like property and antique programmes

tattycath

RadoJo wrote: »

Perhaps the OP works from home? Not everyone who is able to watch daytime TV is unemployed, and to think that they are suggests a fairly narrow understanding of the world of work.

maybe the OP does work from home-I don't know of any jobs where you watch tv all day!

fluffnutter

Telly's deliberately rubbish in the day to stop you watching it. Get out there and do something else, fgs! Don't watch telly, it destroys your soul. Post on here instead

fluffnutter

RadoJo wrote: »

Perhaps the OP works from home? Not everyone who is able to watch daytime TV is unemployed, and to think that they are suggests a fairly narrow understanding of the world of work.

Huh? Working from home = watching telly all day? Only if you're a TV critic!