Bloody ITV – Entertainment for the Brainless
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I am getting so bloody sick of ITV – if I have to suffer any more trailers for such entertaining programmes as 'Britain's Sexiest ...' 'Celebrity StarWatch or any other demeaning rubbish perpetuated poeple who think the whole British public are interested in celebrities and their ilk – well I'm not, I want to watch informative programmes made by skilled programme makers, (should turn over to Channel 4 more perhaps) not some tripe with an invited studio audience the whole IQ of which is about my shoe size and who are going to sit there in their Hawaiin shirts, cropped hair, earring and chunky gold bracelet ollowing the instructions of some idiot floor manager in headphone – WAVE NOW, CLAP NOW.
That is NOT entertainment in my book Carlton/Granada – your audience share is falling and advertising revenue is falling dramatically as people realise the trash you are putting out. Probably the reason why every bloody programme seems to be sponsored. The wife watches ITV cos of the soaps etc so it's always on – me, if I haven't seen it on the BBC News, it's not real. OK?
Thank you.
That is NOT entertainment in my book Carlton/Granada – your audience share is falling and advertising revenue is falling dramatically as people realise the trash you are putting out. Probably the reason why every bloody programme seems to be sponsored. The wife watches ITV cos of the soaps etc so it's always on – me, if I haven't seen it on the BBC News, it's not real. OK?
Thank you.
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not some tripe with an invited studio audience the whole IQ of which is about my shoe size and who are going to sit there in their Hawaiin shirts, cropped hair, earring and chunky gold bracelet
Oh, so you watch Kilroy as well do you?!
And before you ask - no, I don't! I have no desire to see people admit to affairs, fancying their best friend's husband or nicking the contents of the till at work in front of an audience of millions [sic]...
Such is the problem with most commercial television... lowest common denominator shite..
Channel 4 and E4 sometimes seem to be the exception to the rule..
If you want proper TV, you want BBC4, UK Gold, Discovery Home & Leisure, Motors TV, UK Horizons, Play UK, Sky Sports and Eurosports..
When we first got Sky Digital, it didn't have ITV (Ch3) on it at all.. never missed it one bit..
Channel 4 and E4 sometimes seem to be the exception to the rule..
If you want proper TV, you want BBC4, UK Gold, Discovery Home & Leisure, Motors TV, UK Horizons, Play UK, Sky Sports and Eurosports..
When we first got Sky Digital, it didn't have ITV (Ch3) on it at all.. never missed it one bit..
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Oh, so you watch Kilroy as well do you?!
And before you ask - no, I don't! I have no desire to see people admit to affairs, fancying their best friend's husband or nicking the contents of the till at work in front of an audience of millions [sic]...
I love Kilroy, I love to see how the ming mongs live
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Such is the problem with most commercial television... lowest common denominator shite..
Surely you just mean "television".. the BBC (1&2) are just as bad as the rest of them these days..
whatever happened to Good new drama anyway... Ive seen every Inspector Morse and Frost at least three times now.... :sigh: Cheers
Matt.
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Good weekend, MikeyT?
Yes, thanks Jeremy. Cleared all that land we managed to buy (see another thread). Skips filled, scratched to buggery, sunburnt, all that then I have to hear the strains of Tara Palmerbleedin'Tomkinson drifting throught the window. Christ, if she's not one fcukedup mental upperclass tart then I'm not living in the wastelands ...
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Oh you are so right....we were beginning to think it was us thinking TV has become complete pants. I'm struggling (scared) to think who they are aiming at.
Used to get half decent programmes with OnDigital, til they went bust, then had to resort back to waste of time TV. It was starting to affect my mood (which is bad most of the time anyway). When you just want to sit down and veg in front of the box and be entertained, I don't want to watch Survivor, Big Brother, ugliest xxx in Britain, or other crap about other people's everyday lives.
Off to get Sky installed....
S
Used to get half decent programmes with OnDigital, til they went bust, then had to resort back to waste of time TV. It was starting to affect my mood (which is bad most of the time anyway). When you just want to sit down and veg in front of the box and be entertained, I don't want to watch Survivor, Big Brother, ugliest xxx in Britain, or other crap about other people's everyday lives.
Off to get Sky installed....
S
quote:This is a superb idea
Can ITV not bring us 'REAL' Celebrity Deathmatch?
Darren Day v's Tim Westwood I'd quite like to see, would even consider paying for it as a pay per view just as long as one, or preferably both, of them die.
Or as Bill Hicks said of American Gladiators: "Do we think it's too rough? Nooooo... give these fcukers chainsaws"
A couple of meritable Real Celebrity Deathmatches:
Victoria Beckham vs Vanessa Felch
Richard vs Judy
Ant & Dec vs The Krankies
oh yes - I'd buy that for a dollar
Totally agree about dumbed down TV, take a look at the Newspaper circulation figures:
www.abc.org.uk/cgi-bin/gen5?runprog=nav/abc&noc=y
The biggest selling papers by miles are the Sun and the News of the World. The sort of people who buy these papers are the sort of people who watch this tripe....
There's lots of ming mongs out there (like that phrase - must use it more)
...but I'd like to see Mrs T vs Mr T....
>> Edited by alfa dave on Monday 2nd September 15:19
www.abc.org.uk/cgi-bin/gen5?runprog=nav/abc&noc=y
The biggest selling papers by miles are the Sun and the News of the World. The sort of people who buy these papers are the sort of people who watch this tripe....
There's lots of ming mongs out there (like that phrase - must use it more)
...but I'd like to see Mrs T vs Mr T....
>> Edited by alfa dave on Monday 2nd September 15:19
Quite agree with all the above.
Even the academics are dumbing down. Remember those bearded Oxbridge types from the 1960s and '70s when the boy Bamber used to chair Uni Challenge?
Clever? Let's just say that the latter day oinks they cart in really do fit the Ade Edmondson & Co cariactature of 'Young Ones' fame all too closely; these are supposed to be the cream of our intellectual base but they often resemble something so far removed, the gap is quite interstellar.
So what hope the 'mass' market? In the '70s you still had toss, for sure but with the exception of the Victor Meldrew observation latterly, original wit seems dead and buried.
Just watch an episode of Fawlty Towers and implode with laughter.
We have simply Americanized our TV like many other things. The result should surprise nobody, therefore.
(The A-Team, Manimal and BJ & The Bear excepted.)
Even the academics are dumbing down. Remember those bearded Oxbridge types from the 1960s and '70s when the boy Bamber used to chair Uni Challenge?
Clever? Let's just say that the latter day oinks they cart in really do fit the Ade Edmondson & Co cariactature of 'Young Ones' fame all too closely; these are supposed to be the cream of our intellectual base but they often resemble something so far removed, the gap is quite interstellar.
So what hope the 'mass' market? In the '70s you still had toss, for sure but with the exception of the Victor Meldrew observation latterly, original wit seems dead and buried.
Just watch an episode of Fawlty Towers and implode with laughter.
We have simply Americanized our TV like many other things. The result should surprise nobody, therefore.
(The A-Team, Manimal and BJ & The Bear excepted.)
On Sunday, I watched the first half hour of the GP, then switched off because it lived up to my expectations. Apart from that, I don't think I've watched anything in a couple of weeks.
Not been away anywhere, just can't be arsed watching crap. Don't mind the odd DVD, but I'd rather read a good book and have a large whisky. And another.
Or surf PH... There's more informed comment and debate here than a month of TV.
Not been away anywhere, just can't be arsed watching crap. Don't mind the odd DVD, but I'd rather read a good book and have a large whisky. And another.
Or surf PH...
There's more informed comment and debate here than a month of TV.Gassing Station | General Gassing [Archive] | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff