Most Hated things on the TV.

Wig

I'm glad I don't have a TV!

but here's some more of mine

1. All the OP's eastenders, corry, celebrity anything..etc <puke>
2. all those teen witch type things, charmed, buffy, angel, neena princess, etc etc
3. Footballers wives
4. nip tuck,
5. last of summers wine
6. Hospital Dramas
7. All sport except motor sport and Wimbledon(in small doses)


Borderline....
1. The bill, heartbeat,

What I actually like
1. films, even crappy ones.
2. Doctor Who (it's ok)
3. what the xxxxx did for us (romans victorians etc)
4. around the world in 80 treasures
5. Michael Palin journeys
6. Journeys with Clive James, Clive anderson etc
7. Chelmsford 123
8. The survivors (on dvd), blakes 7, star trek, etc
9. only fools and horses
10. Morse, Bergerac, midsommer, agatha christie,
11. Who wants to be a millionaire.

trisontana

What about that KFC advert with the three women in a call centre singing with their mouths full? A fine example to the kids.

And any ad with Michael Winner. Pretentious idiot, who is too full of himself. Does anyone read his restaurant feature in the Sunday Times? He regularly boasts about spending £200 on a bottle of wine and £2000 a night at some crappy resort in Barbados.

mrcow

Being nearly 8 months pregnant, I seem to have developed a very unfortunate and sad knowlegde of day time TV. It's all diabolical, and I can't stress enough that I do switch over/off if required. The worst of the worst includes:

1. Cash in the attic/Boot sale challenge/Car Booty/that other one that used to have David Dickenson in, but now it's that other guy who I think may wear a monacle? (you get the idea - it's all the same old drivel)

2. This Morning, "And today we'll be talking to Mum's who breastfeed their 5 year olds" - or "and today, we'll be discussing all your medical problems that you are too embarrassed to go to the doctor's about" - no thanks!

3. Loose women - a load of nobodies spouting opinions that nobody cares about anyway.

4. People's Court - one of the chaviest programs on TV these days, and they've thrown in Carol Smilie for good measure.

5. ANY program with a phone-in poll. (All of the above probably have these).

And then when you do get to evening/prime time slots, they fill it up with Soaps that just recycle the same old plots again and again (how many different times do people actually get married in these bloomin soaps?), or makeover shows, or blimmin talent shows (X Factor, American Idol, Pop Idol, Pop Stars the Rivals, Junior Eurovision, Eurovision, World Idol, Fame Academy, Celebrity Fame Academy, Dance Fever, Strictly Come Dancing, yada yada yada - it's boring even typing it!), or Bond Movie repeats.

Things I do like... League of Gentlemen, Little Britain, Question Time, any Poirot/Cracker type dramas - it's just the rest of the cheap drivel thatgets my goat.

calleyw

lipidicman wrote:

You have located the standby button? (or better still for a moneysaving board, the hard-off-switch)

Bing, Bing, Bing, Ding, Bing, Bing Bing Bing
Dah Dah Der, Der Der, Dah Dah.........

Or no telly at all like me.

Yours

Calley

SnowyOwl_2

Don't have a telly any more but could never understand why so much air time is devoted to football, cricket, rugby, snooker, darts, formula1, athletics, horse racing, golf, tennis etc etc etc... Just as bad is the endless hot air commentary after the game, tournament, round etc etc etc...

It used to make me wonder when some event or other was screened live on both BBC and ITV...why???

Nelski

Tee hee. You got all my favs on this thread - still they do say it takes all sorts. what do I hate:

football clashing with my fav soaps
Hollyoaks (see some i dislike)
Farming and religion programmes on a sunday
Heartbeat
anything to do with space travel (blakes seven star trek - now that really is sad)
snooker

MECHANIC_2

I hate celebs
reality
soaps (now inc. The Bill)
makeovers, whether they are of houses, gardens or people
films (except some old British ones -- mainly war films or comedies)
nearly anything American or, worse still, Australian

many sitcoms, esp. middle class ones and "men behaving boorishly" types
breakfast TV
chat shows, esp. if hosted by that sycophant, Michael Parkinson
most drama, esp. medical
motoring programmes (in spite of my job)
horse racing and show jumping
almost all adverts (exc. some humorous, self-deprecating ones), esp.for hair care and other cosmetic products
etc.

basill

The trend to recap at length everything that happened 3 mins ago before the ads, if you add the recap and the ads it hardy leaves any programme!

B

trisontana

basill wrote:

The trend to recap at length everything that happened 3 mins ago before the ads, if you add the recap and the ads it hardy leaves any programme!

B

That seems to happen in some American programmes such as "Forensic Detectives". Perhaps a lot of Americans have problems with their short term memory and forget things during the (many) commercial breaks !

£$&*"($£&(

Those Test the Nation quizzes. One of the worst cases of flogging a dead horse ever.

Just about anything on ITV and BBC1 on Saturday evenings.

Or should that be just about anything on ITV and BBC1 on any evening.

The Weakest Link and most other dumb quiz shows.