Guest 672- Registered: 3 Jun 2008
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24 January 2010
20:0438669#1
Did any one else find this weekends tv a load of cobblers?
Sunday evening, Iv'e got the head phones on and bopping away to the stuff I like just to cut out the drivel from Skating on Ice. ( wifey glued to it )
A screaming audience, over grinning tv stars.
I used to like Philip Schofield but now his voice realy gets on my do dahs.
What the hell has happened to weekend tv?
grass grows by the inches but dies by the feet.
Guest 686- Registered: 5 May 2009
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24 January 2010
20:0438670#2
There's TV at weekends? I'll have to investigate that!!
Phil West
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Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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24 January 2010
20:1138672#3
I'm playiing on the "pooter" too Ian.
Roger
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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24 January 2010
20:1438673#4
What the hell has happened to weekend tv Ian? Just weekend? I`m on here now and I can here all that dreadful half hearted cheering while I`m on here. The wife has it on.
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Guest 672- Registered: 3 Jun 2008
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24 January 2010
20:1738676#5
Tv Doesn't bother me much but at the weekends it would be nice just to see a decent line up now and again.
Or am I asking too much?
If the answer is yes, THEN why the hell am I paying for a tv licence????
grass grows by the inches but dies by the feet.
Guest 674- Registered: 25 Jun 2008
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24 January 2010
20:1738678#6
Tv in general is very poor, its usually a background noise for me
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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24 January 2010
20:3038684#7
How pleasant this week to have walked through the former market square in peace and quiet. I wonder why?
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24 January 2010
20:3738685#8
9pm this evening apparently the trotter programme is rated for its authentic 50s background - we shall see.
D
Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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24 January 2010
20:3738686#9
This weekend? I find it's rubbish most weekends!!
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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24 January 2010
21:1638703#10
Bit confused though David H - I would have though that a your Delboy would look like the guy from Open All Hours
Been nice knowing you :)
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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25 January 2010
08:3438729#11
I did watch that Rock and Chips and quite enjoyed it - maybe I just like watching nostalgia.
Roger
Guest 650- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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25 January 2010
10:5238735#12
I find much tv not particularly interesting these days; mainly this is because it's cheap programming (pick up a camera and follow someone), spun out (hour programmes that could be done in 20 minutes were it not for padding), or celebrity-style.
Having said this, there were a batch of programmes I thought I'd have a look at on Friday night BBC. One was "History of Christianity". The art in the camera work and direction in the first episode was stunning (so good it distracted from the other content!) One programme I was glad I'd watched, and didn't feel had wasted my time.
As for nostalgia, Roger, we're spending the last half-hour of every evening watching a series of programmes on steam trains, produced in the mid 1980s. Wonderful!
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
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25 January 2010
11:1038736#13
I too watched Rock and Chips ..There is always a little story with me .On Saturday i was looking through old wedding photos most of them taken in the late fifties early sixties .Several were of my friend whom i worked with in the good old GPO days: last evening out of the blue she rang me and we talked about old friends and the town where we both lived in our younger days .After her call I was undecided whether to watch Rock and Chips.Im glad I did as i found my self recalling the sixties .Those hair dos .The innocence of chat up lines (well we were not that innocent )just pretended and the flirting??I liked the part where the boss was harrasing his empoyee thats how it was .Not in todays world he would have been brought before the courts .
I recall how the chaps used to go on coach trips down to Margate always crates of beer loaded on the buses .
I have already talked about my friend with the photos,followed by a phone call well imagine my surprise when the coach appeared on the screen cream and blue J.W.Lodge and sons ,HighEaster .My maiden name was Lodge and I lived in High Easter .
Our school bus was J.W. Lodge and sons .
So three days running with old memories
I think Jeanne will have thoughts on this ...
Guest 693- Registered: 12 Nov 2009
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25 January 2010
11:5238744#14
TV is mostly an abomination on all channels these days, and like Colin, I can't bear those reality celebrity screaming-audience mind-numbing abortions that pass for prime time viewing these days.
We make extensive use of the Sky+ box so that we don't have to watch garbage, and it works very well. We tape the shows we do want to watch (CSI New York, Waking The Dead and (just for me) Match of The Day) and some great films from the movie channels. Then there's always the mountain of DVDs we own, and failing that there is always the'off' button; increasingly the off button is becoming my best friend these days.
The way I see it, it's very simple. The only language the TV stations understand is ratings; therefore, if you find what they dish up to you is rubbish, switch the damned thing off. Remember El Dorado and Albion Market? They failed the ratings lottery and were soon consigned to the dustbin.
True friends stab you in the front.
Guest 686- Registered: 5 May 2009
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25 January 2010
12:3738748#15
With so many channels available on cable and Sky it's no wonder we have difficulty finding something worth watching at the times we want to. It seems to take longer to scan the channels than actually watch a decent programme. No wonder we spend a lot more time than perhaps we should sat in front of the 'puter swapping inanities on Face Book or Twitter!
Phil West
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Guest 644- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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25 January 2010
12:5138749#16
Being Human, Survivors and Charlie Brooker's Newswipe are about it for me at the moment. Mind you, we have had some good stuff on terrestrial recently - True Blood on C4 was a real standout before Christmas.
Odd that Being Human has been relegated back to BBC3 as the first series had very good ratings when transferred to BBC2 last year.
When is Ashes To Ashes coming back, does anyone know? It's the third and final year and should be the end for Gene Hunt and co.
Of course there is a new Doctor to look forward to as well...even if he is about ten years old!
25 January 2010
13:4538756#17
I love Lark Rise to Candleford - sorry! But apart from that we rarely watch terrestrial tv. We watch a lot of ITV 3, FIVE USA, More 4 and whatever we can find on FreeSat. Let's face it, even the shopping channels are more interesting that the reality shows.
Guest 650- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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25 January 2010
15:5238764#18
I liked "Lark Rise to Candleford" in its first series, but didn't get on so well with the second, and I'm waiting to see what I think of the third. Having said that. there are some wonderfully strong performances from so many of the actors, which certainly make it worth watching. As for "Being Human" - I'm not yet convinced about this second series; partly because of the blatant adverts for various products within the dialogue. But the first series wasn't easy watching for me - am I the only one who found Herrick terrifying?
The best screen I watch, though, is the DWMP one ....
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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25 January 2010
22:2738797#19
I`ve just returned with a cuppa, and on passing through the living room with the box being watched, yes, someone here is watching big brother and I watched a pair of adults, (I haven`t said grown ups), walking about with handcuffs round their ankles, while a couple of males are sitting on a sofa laughing their heads off. I`ve always thought I`ve got a good sense of humour, but I couldn`t be paid to laugh at that. Sorry, but am I missing something here?
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Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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25 January 2010
22:3238800#20
I'm with you on that one Colin, I can't stand Big Brother. I watched a bit of the first one back in the day and have avoided it ever since!
I've been at home working on my latest children's book today and caught an episode of Poriot around lunch time which I enjoyed. It was followed by Sherlock Holmes which I also like.