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MRS BROWNS * BOYS! Who the * watches that shit?
Eastenders. Get in the…..river!
These were the first things that came to my mind. I'm embarrassed that the BBC puts it's name to them.
I did happen to watch a couple of quiz shows the other week and it seems to be the trend that rather than just deliver the answer you have to pad it out by explaining either your thought process or explaining why it isn't answers a, b or c.... this should go too!
Hmmm...
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• Thinks how much time I spend watching Dave/Yesterday/Quest!
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If anyone mentions Wheeler Dealers they are dead to me - that programme is TV crack. Even if I've seen the episode a dozen times before I still have to watch till the end! 🙂
Was Silent Witness always as bad as it is?
Anything with Alex Jones
Alex Jones is on the telly?? How the **** did I miss that!
@ernielynch - you know for a fact if Al Qaeda offered her the right package she'd start hosting their new breakfast show!! She's just awful! 😀
Another vote for Silent Witness.
We used to watch it back in the day when it was less far fetched and shit, and now my wife insists on series linking it so the box is clogged up with about 3 seasons of the bloody thing.
Also, I can't watch Ms Fox anymore entirely because her cousin is such a massive and nasty ****. Highly irrational I know, but he has tainted them all in my weird view.
I'm just going to add, anything with a 'jeopardy arc' in it. FFS, don't create false drama/tension where there is none, we can see straight through it.
Strictly. Stopped watching it around the time that Ola Jordan left [thinks ruefully...].
Naked Attraction. Once you've seen 6542 mishaped penises and 8760 odd size tits, you've seen em all*! 😆
Never Mind the Buzzcocks. Bringing it back was a massive error.
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(*I've only seen it twice really. Honest. It makes me heave)
Silent Witness is so bad it's comical now! The wife likes it though so I sit through it and pick holes in it.
Call the Midwife should be cancelled - it's the same ruddy storyline every episode. So, so dull and preachy.
it’s the same ruddy storyline every episode.
You know that there's a glaringly obvious solution, right? And it applies to, like, this entire thread.
@ernielynch – you know for a fact if Al Qaeda offered her the right package she’d start hosting their new breakfast show!! She’s just awful
Ah, you meant the female presenter. I thought you meant Alex Jones the geezer. I would love to watch him on the telly.
I don't watch the One Show but I quite liked that Welsh party on Would I Lie To You.
You know that there’s a glaringly obvious solution, right?
Not when it's a Sunday evening and you'd rather not start an argument! 🤣
like Bruce Forsythe or those two nice young Geordie boys.
Is the ones where one of them ran someone over while drunk driving?
During the first lockdown it peeved me off so much that I decided to time the different segments of a show on ITV (think it was some sort of history programme) and for a 1 hour show it was:
14 minutes of adverts.
3 minutes of credits.
23 minutes of fresh content.
12 minutes of highlights/spoilers for the hard of thinking.The missing 8 minutes was taken over by a ‘quick’ news thing and a weather forecast. The show also dragged out the ‘suspense’ at every occasion to the point the whole show could have been compressed to a 15 minute video and actually been better for it.
The 'cheaper' channels use 20 minutes of ad content per hour of airtime.
Anything with the word 'Celebrity' in the title
Naked Attraction. Once you’ve seen 6542 mishaped penises and 8760 odd size tits, you’ve seen em all*!
We stopped watching when we started recognising it was n't the first time a particular contestant had been on the show.
Which bit did you recognise?
Also, I can’t watch Ms Fox anymore entirely because her cousin is such a massive and nasty ****.
I get a touch of that myself, but it's Billy Piper stuff that I get this a lot more with - she was married to the twunt for 8 years!
Everything on ITV2 except Family Guy and American Dad. Mrs Brown Boys is indeed shite but that is part of the appeal and the hatred reaction to it is funny.
There's far too many food shows
Police Interceptors et al
The National Lottery draw show - not cancelled but trimmed to avout 2 minutes.
Any poxy awards shows - could all be done by post - "Yeah, you're wonderful - here's your medal/statuette/money etc".
Any of those "How to spend less on food" idiot fests. Micky Flanagan ripped the p*** out of that proper style!
Lizard lick towing.
Any program with baliffs pn it. Watching people whose lives are a car crash anyway getting evicted really is poor taste.
Looked at thread, considered asking why anyone would watch anything that was 20% ads, a genre they didn't like etc (bar being close to the one they love, though don't know I'd love someone with tastes that different to mine), and above all whether people still flick through channels... Why would you? I tend to start watching at 10 stop at about 11:15 unless it's a pub night, and tend to go on reviews, recommendations and browsing the streamers or whatever my wife wants to watch.
But reading the thread I realise that because I don't watch stuff I don't want to and can't remember when I last flicked about (we're on a min channels package with virgin, but only watch via apps) I've never seen stuff like the repair shop, love island, chat or panel shows, etc etc. And am I increasinly a high court judge with zero knowledge of popular culture.
I therefore resolve to watch some of this shite.
Anything where you have to buy/find some crappy ‘antiques’ and sell them for a profit.
it’s the buying in antiques shops and dealers (retail) and trying to sell them on at an auction (wholesale) thing that bugs me.
I’ll try pitching a program about buying carrots from Tesco and trying to sell them back to the farmer
The Boys
snooker, golf, horse racing, football, tennis. particularly anything with pundit banter
anything on Dave and Wheeler Dealers can get in the Sea
any of Z list Celebrity stuff and duckface reality TV knackers
any TV show trying to spin the police in a positive
Mrs Browns Boys is comedy Gold
Was reminded by poster up there: hignfy. It was funny back then in the early to mid 90s. Not it's just a bunch of hackneyed old farts!
Cancel everything currently in production,revert to 3 channels, bring back The Waltons and Play for today cease transmission at midnight.
Anything hosted by that bastard ventriloquist dummy headface Bastard Mulherne. The shiny, cockney nobber.
it’s the buying in antiques shops and dealers (retail) and trying to sell them on at an auction (wholesale) thing that bugs me.
My dad and sister did Bargain Hunt last year, came away with a Golden Gavel and ~£300 so it can be done!
No, I haven't watched it.
Anything hosted by that bastard ventriloquist dummy headface Bastard Mulherne. The shiny, cockney nobber.
Proud to say I had to google him.
Still mostly want gogglebox cancelled beyond all else. Effective immediately.
Kardashian / Towie / Made in Chelsea / Real Housewives of Possil types of 'reality' bollox where all the revelations and arguments have perfect camera angles, light and sound. All of them faker than Jordan's norks. Oh aye, her too. Vacuous pish the lot of them.
Mrs Brown Boys is indeed shite but that is part of the appeal
They walk amongst us... 😳 😉
Anything that follows the ‘eliminate one participant each week’ format. Cooking/baking, singing, dancing, sewing, potterying, assault-courseing, skating, business-ing, defusing unexploded bombs
Whoa there!
Bake Off is great and Throwdown is genuinely interesting the jewellery one is meant to be good too.
And the last one I would definitely watch
A Question of Sport. Been past its sell by date for about 20 years.
I’m with joshvegas on the unexplored bomb programme. It could be called Z list go boom! Either that or Climbing for Dollars from the Running Man.
Some good choices and sadly I agree with 99% of them. I don’t watch terrestrial TV, just Netflix, Prime etc, yet I still know about celebrity shite and soaps. This is through some sort of osmosis. Such is their evil, all consuming nature.
"I'm a Celebrity - Get Me Out Of Here, There, Over There, And A Few Chunks Up That Tree"?
Anything at all that involves talent type contests be they "real" fake or involving so called celebrities. So That jungle programme, anythig with dancing, singing etc.
Anything that creates famous people famous for being famous and sod all use to the world.
Anything American except for Alaska the last Frontier.
Anything that uses incorrect grammar, speeling or capitalisation etc.
Anything that tries to tell us how to live our lives.
Anything that doesn't actually motivate us to get off our fat arses and do something more productive than watch the sodding box.
Use the STM approach to the idiot box.
" Is the programme I am watching enhancing my life?"
If the answer is no, then turn the television off and go and do something less boring instead.
I’ll start with any sort of reality based TV
Ok, but let's make an exception for a house full of MILFs and horny teenage boys.
I’m Begging ‘MILF Manor’ to Stop Confusing MILFs and Cougars
If the answer is no, then turn the television off and go and do something less boring instead.
And bring back "Why don't you...?"
The News. Generally when the news is presented on t.v. it is so over simplified it becomes pointless.
SAS Who Dares Wins
Complete poo these days, when applying for the show you must have had to have some demon in the closet to be selected so the first few episodes a pull them apart. You hardly get to see the winner as they are just too boring for air time
I’m Begging ‘MILF Manor’ to Stop Confusing MILFs and Cougars
I'd like to go on record in saying that I'm not confused. Though I appreciate the concern.