howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Guest 1036- Registered: 27 Aug 2013
- Posts: 37
The one Show has gone past it sale by date.
Eleanor H.
Terry Nunn
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 4,316
And what about the mainstay of daytime tv, that 'orrible little bloke Dom Littlewood? If you're unlucky you can catch him on three channels at the same time.
Eleanor - I gave up on that years ago, the Belfast accent was grating. Now it's Welsh I'm told.
Terry
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Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
that's ok I do not watch any of them.
Guest 1082- Registered: 16 Oct 2013
- Posts: 23
Thank goodness for radio 4
I am saved anyway by Cbeebies by day BBC4 by night if I have it on.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
never actually watched the "one show" but just the opening music sums it up for me i have to make a dash for the remote control to stop it. the clips of it that i have seen suggest it is a day time programme put there by mistake.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,895
I usually have The One Show on in the background while I am on the computer as every so often they do have some very interesting items.
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Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
- Posts: 1,418
The Trials of Life.
Life in the Freezer.
Attenborough in Paradise.
Countryfile.
Strictly come dancing.
Newsroom Southeast.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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- Posts: 62,352
not heard of the first 2, quite like the next 2 and agree with philip about the last 2.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
- Posts: 8,664
I hate, and will turn off:
Anything involving slebs doing anything but acting.
Talent shows.
Jonathan Woss or Noël Edmonds in any shape or form.
Everything mentioned in the link in post 1.
Party political broadcasts.
Football.
I like:
Quality drama (Downton, etc)
Quality comedy (doc Martin, etc)
Quality documentaries
Edit: HIGNFY (brilliant)
Everything else I can tune out while doing other things.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
history programmes that treat us all like primary school children, dan snow being the obvious culprit.
Terry Nunn- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 4,316
I was looking forward to a railway programme a while ago. After 5 minutes I switched it off. Not only was it factually inaccurate but the presenter was a moron.
It was Dan Snow.
Terry
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
not just me then, i would like to see simon scharma present all history programmes on the bbc, he manages to get complicated stories across in a clearly understandable way without talking down to the viewers.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
i almost forgot - all talent shows and anything with good old brucie in .
Andy B
- Location: dover
- Registered: 10 Nov 2012
- Posts: 1,820
The X factor.Same old thing,songs in the style that we,ve all heard time and time again,never anything truly outstanding or different.
Guest 744- Registered: 20 Mar 2012
- Posts: 412
I used to think British TV was dire until I moved to France. I will make no comment on Eleanor H's post
Radio 4 for me as it has been for years and long before I became an old wrinkly.
Guest 1033- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
- Posts: 509
I don't have a TV in this room, so if I want to watch something in particular I need to go to a different room. Since we reorganised the house this way, January, I haven't bothered, don't think I've missed much either.
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
- Posts: 7,819
There is very little on these days if you fall outside the X Factor or Strictly sphere. A whole brace of internet culture has built up around all that and I havent a clue whats going on.
One programme that i thought was pretty bad was the new effort called Count Arthur Strong. I thought that dire. I like to give new comedy a go but that one...sheesh!
You can stand by now though for a whole brace of heart-warming British Gas commercials. They will mightily go on the PR offensive now following their recent abysmal headlines, with that cosy little world crap. The ads of course cost YOU a fortune. I tried to watch Conan Doyle's the Lost World yesterday and got the British Gas brainwash non-stop. Drama channel on Freeview it was I think.
Terry Nunn- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 4,316
Speaking of Newsroom South East, which I quite like by the way, the only problem is when Ian Palmer reads the half hourly news at breakfast time. He is so boring. He reads it in such a pedestrian way that his script must be half the length of the other newsreaders.
And then you have Julia George. When she was a small fish in a big pond on Breakfast TV (she was Jules Bottfield then) she was ok. Now, as a big fish she's become a dragon, or should that be a shark!
Luckily I have satellite tv, proper satellite that is, not sky, and find solace in ZDF Kultur or similar when Cheap Repetitive Awful Programmes are on.
Terry
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Guest 756- Registered: 6 Jun 2012
- Posts: 727
I will watch The Paradise tonight, tape Homeland for later followed by Was it Something I Said?
My guilty pleasure is Mrs Browns Boys.