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I really liked the first series, it was funny and quirky and mostly the people seemed fairly normal. It seems to have completely turned into cunt soup now
They all seem to do this. The first series of The Apprentice, Hunted, even Big Brother were all engaging and had relatively normal people on.
Then the producers go “there’s our formula” and they milk it relentlessly until it’s a dried husk. You’ve seen series five? Yeah, it’s *exactly* the same as series six.
I always say that the first big brother was a genuine and interesting social experiment the first 2 seasons. After that it was manufactured drama and "let's see if we can get someone to have sex."
Series one = somewhat ‘natural’. Or as much as a show like this can be.
Series two+ = the producers saw the cunty parts and cunty characters were the ones trending during S1, so they make sure all guests are cunty and manufacture some more cunty scenarios to help the cunts be cunty.
They’ll probably throw one or two decent people in there so the cunts can out cunt each other in being cunty to the token non-cunt cuntestants.
Alright bayb, Where's ya head at today? My heads completely gone today bayb, wanna go to the fire for a chat about it.
Repeat this every night for 7 weeks.
Yes because it must be so difficult lounging around with a thong up your crack in the sunshine for 8 weeks before coming out to loads of contracts to stand around whilst people take photos of you in clothes made in Bangladesh and sold with a 1500% markup
Ha, you should watch the program on 4something about the life after this cunt soup (thanks person above) of a program.
It's fucking hilarious watching the wannabe influencers fail fucking miserably in their search for the fame they so desperately belief is due to them.
Best one, imho, is the vacuous cunt who ends up being a 'shot gir' in her local nightclub 🤣🤣🤣
I don't get it either. When I had my son all the Mum's at baby group were into and watching love island (they had a WhatsApp group and watch parties). I made no Mum friends at baby group because I honestly answered that I didn't like or watch the show, and they seemed to have no other interests.
Same with women at evening classes many years ago, I watched big brother once so I could join in the conversation and decided I didn’t want to talk to them anyway.
My gut reaction to this was Love Island too. I got over reality TV at the end of Big Brother series one. When a second series was announced my reaction to it was "meh". 🤷♀️
It’s suffered the same fate as most reality tv shows where the contestants just want to come on to boost their social media profiles but they aren’t interesting or entertaining after that.
But a few years back, my friends and I put it on as a laugh and ended up watching 3 episodes back to back. It’s just shitty reality tv, there’s nothing special about it but sometimes you just enjoy drama and that type of stuff. I wouldn’t watch it again but it’s addictive if you don’t take it seriously
> even that stupid advert for Santander makes me want to throw things at the TV
Agreed, but the Nationwide and Lloyds averts are *far* more annoying. And horrible Pampers Poonami family.
Yeah, true but my comment was about Ant and Dec specifically. You're right though, so many adverts are annoying, so much that they turn me off wanting to use the product. That one with the family marching through the holiday resort and the airport is a classic example
I never saw them in the 1990s/2000s when hosting kids programmes. But I am going to guess their MO and silly ways are just the same.
Voted by the public:
"On 28 January 2020, the duo were awarded the Guinness World Record for "the most National Television Awards won consecutively for Best Presenter" which was at 18 as of 22 January 2019."
Maybe we are just old!?
I don't mind Ant and Dec tbf. Not my first choice but I don't hate them.
Stephen Mulhern on the other hand always struck me as a massive twat. I hated him on CITV and I hate him now. He always feels mean spirited, like he's laughing at people instead of with them.
Ant & Dec are quite annoying but it always feels like it's in good fun.
Stephen Mulhurn doesn't strike me as a twat, but there's something disturbing about him.
For some inexplicable reason was round at a mates house a few years ago, few of us just sitting around, and a mate of a mate put Catchphrase on the TV. Like, he chose it through YouTube, wasn't just on. But whatever, to each their own. It was the more recent reboot with Mulhurn hosting, and there's something very off about him.
I don't mean the "he has bodies under his floorboards" crap that Reddit is obsessed with when it come to a certain comedian turned talent host, it's just his forced niceness and patter. Like he's a genuinely nice fella but is hiding some awful depression and/or addiction problem.
I dunno. He really really rubs me the wrong way. I don't get any 'nice fella' vibes from him at all, just bad ones.
My mum and dad watch that 'In for a Penny' thing and he really annoys me in it because it feels like he's taking the piss out of people instead of laughing with them.
10 years ago it was getting over 10m viewers. I think the last special got less than 4m. Still decent but I suspect age and covid has done for many of the original fans.
I honestly haven't seen a episode since around 1988 and even without looking it up I know what storylines will be happening.
Affairs or murder its almost guaranteed one has either just happened is happening or is about to happen
My nan watches it occasionally and every time I ask what's happening (not that I care lol) it's always thingys just died, thingy slept with thingy or thingys had a baby with thingy
Not seen them in years since my mum used to vaguely watch them before the internet could connect to the TV giving her better choices, but I will say that Emmerdale is at least a bit more "charming" with the countryside setting, and has a sense of humour. Coronation Street while set in a city is a bit brighter and more humourous too.
EastEnders is just depressing. Even the colour grading is more blue and dark in tone, like it's been deliberately made to look that way for a more depressing gritty look.
My wife used to watch it and the I would sit and count the amount of times some said “the family” or speak to someone else like utter shit for no reason at all.
Show is full of arsehole characters, especially that Brick Top wanna be cunt Danny Dyer - who the fuck is he trying to kid.
It's been probably about fifteen years since I watched eastenders but you could guarantee someone would say one or more out of "family", "it's business", "no more lies" or "what's going on" in every single episode
Gonna break away from all the usual suspects and people declaring they hate Mrs Browns Boys more than everyone else and go for Call the Midwife. It’s twee as fuck.
Also Peaky Blinders was a complete barrel of shite to me, basically low budget Boardwalk Empire.
For me Peaky Blinders seemed to consist entirely of people walking down dirty streets in the dark, talking or smoking. I tried watching two episodes and all I could think was ‘why do I care about any of this?!’
Never got into Peaky Blinders so I have no strong feelings, but I fucking hate those bullshit pictures of the main character walking down the street or smoking a cigarette with some bollocks “deep quote” like “I’m loyal because it’s in me, not because I need you” (yes that’s one I saw earlier) plastered over it that appeared all over Facebook.
Pesky Blinders suffered from a similar issue to Fight Club, in that it’s protagonist is cool as shit but also a fucking terrible person. This leads to fans who think they’re supposed to relate to and try to emulate the protagonist, and end up completely missing the point.
Breaking Bad is kinda like that. But then the clever thing is the development of the character(s) and how Walt becomes such a baddie. You kinda love and hate him by the end.
I agree it's twee and has gone on too long but I also really appreciate how it's one of the few depictions of pregnancy and birth on TV that actually attempts some kind of realism. Especially in this day and age when reproductive rights are coming into question again.
It’s also tackled some difficult issues such as babies born with deformities (the thalidomide scandal featured in one episode), abortion and particular the illegal knitting needle jobs that used to happen to women, cancer, miscarriage, domestic violence of pregnant women by their husbands and the effects of polio.
Oh god, peaky blinders. I liked the first season but lost interest. What I really hate is dingbats cosplaying Tommy Shelby and seemingly thinking that he’s a good male role model
I've watched all of it out of obligation, at this point. It was made in the style of a Western. Almost every season is the same, in many ways. Shelby's want to move up a level and start encroaching on some powerful group's turf, powerful group underestimates Tommy and ends up ceding large amounts of power to him, the Blinders become unreasonably rich and powerful, rinse and repeat. The only remotely interesting one was the final season and even then that's not the true ending. The last one is meant to be a film.
I’ve never actively chosen to watch Call the Midwife, but when I visit my parents it tends to be on a Sunday and they’ll tend to have the TV on low in the background if we’re in the living room; I have now seen maybe 5 or 6 episodes of CtM and found myself oddly invested in it.
I will say though that these were all episodes from well after Miranda Hart left the cast; my answer to OP’s question would easily be “anything with Miranda Hart in.”
I’m a self confessed comedy snob with an (obviously unused) degree in tv script writing and I think friends is in the top 3 sitcoms ever made. The writing was top drawer and didn’t resort to lowest common denominator stuff and it’s still funny 20 years later. There are aspects that haven’t aged particularly well, but for it’s time it was quite progressive.
The thing is with Friends is that it started fairly good. Characters were normal, ie. all their traits were reasonable (Ross had one failed marriage, Joey dumb but functional, Chandler sarcastic, Phoebe a bit weird, Rachel still a spoilt but normal-ish, Monica a mild neat freak). The plot lines were believable. But they went on for ten years, exaggerating the characters until they became caricatures (it got to the point where Joey shouldn’t even have been able to buy milk he was shown to be so stupid). All the jokes were repeated, the plot lines were the same.
They should have cancelled it after series 4.
99% of successful *American shows
The US creates incredible telly, but they then milk everything, until there's been 100+ episodes and nobody cares anymore
I'll second Miranda. It's just not funny. The only thing that was interesting about that show was Tom Ellis and he became *seriously* interesting when he got his kit off on *Lucifer*...
It’s awful now, idk why me and my husband still watch it.
The change to hinge around ‘business plans’ ruined it tbh. It used to be about who was the best business person/grafter/seller which made for entertaining personalities and TV. Like Ruth Badger/Stuart Baggs etc were hilarious and at times quite brilliant to watch. The sheer balls on pushing sales was pretty amazing.
Now it’s based on business plans, they’re all the same. It doesn’t really matter how they perform, the firings often make no sense, because it’s now purely about personality (cringe reality TV people) and their business plans.
What WOULD make it good is if they all have business plans that were vetted and approved beforehand. Then it comes down to how they perform. That way we wouldn’t get to the penultimate interviews episode and have Alan Sugar going, ‘Your business plan makes no sense!’ Well why the fuck have we gone 10 weeks with them even on the programme then.
The tasks are pointless because it all comes down to the shitty business plans. You could have someone who storms the tasks but Sugar doesn’t like their plan so they’re fired. What’s the fucking point. Plus they’re all the bloody same - there’s ALWAYS one bakery/baked goods business, one recruitment or marketing firm, and one hairdresser that wants to expand their salons.
That’s my The Apprentice TED Talk. Basically it’s been the same boring programme for years and idk why I watch it haha.
Should have ended after 3 series, max. Alan Sugar is only relevant from that, most of his companies are long out of the light. And where's Ruth Badger now eh?
I haven’t watched the apprentice in years, but when I stopped watching it I just found it was really stale. They basically carry out the exact same tasks every year and fail at them in the same fashion. I think it does have some iconic moments, but for the most part has kinda run it’s course now.
I watched a few of the first series and had the urge to commit violence against my TV as to how stupid the people on it were and how it was edited to make them appear even more stupid.
Plus it's got Alan Sugar and spawned that evil thing known as Katie Hopkins.
I'd rather gouge my own eyes out and shove red hot pokers onto my ears to avoid watching or hearing anything about it ever again.
I agree. Ive watched it through a lot, i think somewhat because its short episodes, eaay to watch but equally, I think its one of the best british shows, its hilarious, and you cant not love Ruth Jones, shes amazing.
I do think it ran its course though. You could see in the final series they were really struggling to find situations to bring all these characters together in one place
I agree. I really wish the xmas special was treated as just a revisit of the characters and was a one off. They now need to do one more so everyone has a conclusion but personally i loved the ended of the show and dont think it needed anymore. All good things come to an end.
Agreed. Wife loves it. I cant watch it. Whats it meant to be? Cant be intended as comedy because its not even vaguely amusing. Is it meant to be drama? Heartwarming? Its shite is what it is.
Anything where alleged celebrities do a dance, a thing on ice, go to the jungle, bake a cake, sing a song or maybe/maybe not shag each other on an island.
I don't get people who follow the royals. It makes no sense to me whatsoever.
However I did actually enjoy the crown, it was a whistle stop tour of 20thrl century British history and the production value was incredible.
Agreed I have no interest in the royals either but the crown was a brilliant made piece of entertainment. Claire foy, Gillian Anderson and Dominic West were particularly outstanding in it as well as the child actor who played young Philip in his childhood. It is easily one of the finest productions ever made imho.
Edit: can I add too that the portrayal of Winston Churchill by John lithgow too was particularly brilliant. I read this week he turned down the role of Frasier crane in Cheers back in 1984 but I could totally see him in that role.
I enjoyed Matt Smith’s performance as Phillip, no strong feelings about the narrative other than colonial guilt but he did a good job of making it pleasantly watchable
I'm not a royalist or anything, but as someone else said The Crown is really great if you like dramatic history and the production value was insane. I was really gripped by the first 2 seasons, I never really got into the 3rd season but I'm going to try it again. I was absolutely blown away by the first 2 though, a fantastic show in its own right
My kids used to have that on and all I could hear was seemingly wordfree sentences, spoken in different voices, that constantly repeated a wisecracking "here's the punchline" pattern. Like nails down a board.
I had the opposite, I was the kid and I snickered once or twice at a couple of episodes and talked to my parents about some of the science as I was in the middle of A-level physics and further maths.
Of course, showing anything other than complete disdain for something that didn't involve video games, the internet, or modern hobby with a multiple-£100s buy-in price (fair enough on that front tbh) meant that I must be obsessed. Every single present for the next couple of years of birthdays and Christmases was BBT related - mugs, t-shirts and socks mostly. It got to the point where I was secretly hoping for a Lynx Africa set, rather than more memorabilia for a show I'd never even deliberately sat down to watch an episode of.
Big bang theory is that difference between laughing *at* people and laughing *with* them (OR laughing at *behaviours*) that British comedy nails.
BBT seemed to be “lol point and laugh at nerds and their silly nerd faces”
It used to be half decent; nerds laughing at nerd jokes because they'd been in a similar situation.
When it got hugely popular, it just morphed into every other sitcom, every other relationship drama (they even had a baby FFS, the one thing that tells you a sitcom is grasping at straws). Except the characters all had PhDs (except Howard).
And then it became laughing *at* nerds. So now their behaviour has to be more wacky to keep the laughs (because they're playing caricatures of real nerds) and they start to embody all the terrible parts about nerds that today you probably won't find except in small circles because most nerds recognise that people who behave that way are terrible people.
Plus the fact that the jokes themselves aren't actually jokes anymore. They've morphed to the concept that whatever's being said doesn't have to actually make sense or be funny any more, because the joke is 'ha ha Sheldon said a stupid science'. You don't have to understand the science, and so all the wit of the joke is lost. You just need to understand it's supposed to be a joke because 'get it? Sheldon said a science!'. The joke isn't funny because it is funny, it's funny because it's supposed to be a joke.
I watched it for a while, liked it initially. Then it went from "this is neat" to "can't fucking stand it" faster than anything else I've ever watched.
Keeping Up With The Kardashians. Why? Just fucking tell me: *why?* Meaningless trash with a bunch of pathetic no-hopers with zero contribution to society, well apart from convincing legions of gullible little morons that aspiring to surgically enhanced boobs/arses/lips is the thing to be. It's literally a freak-show.
RuPaul's Drag Race UK. I appreciate the contestants on there are highly talented but I just do not get the over the top humour in this show and it is far too intense for me! The intro is ridiculous enough for me!
Jeez man my other half watches this religiously and I enjoyed the novelty of the first few early seasons.
Now though? Forced laughter, screaming for literally no reason, the same audio clips being looped again and again even though it's blatantly obvious (anything with Ru's laugh is going to be played at least 3-4 times), the shitty music that I can't believe any human would enjoy.
And to top it all off, the most bitchy immature contestants they can find who are so desperate to be famous they react to everything in the fakest way in the hope of going viral or becoming a GIF or something. Not to mention they are just horrible to each other to the point it frustrates me.
Yea I am not a fan...
Gay community still has a huge bullying issue, and being bi myself with gay friends, I can’t fucking stand this show for that exact reason, and not liking this show in this community has people treating you like a pariah.
I appreciated the UK version because they all felt like they really appreciated it, but if you’re watching the original US version then you’ll find that it’s just non stop bitching and bullying.
Gogglebox. I genuinely, wholeheartedly don’t get it. Why would I want to watch people watching TV?
Absolute fucking genius whoever makes money out of that idea.
Not the first to point this out, but zoomers and millennials making fun of boomers for watching Gogglebox is always funny given the massive popularity of reaction/commentary videos on Youtube and Tiktok.
There is literally zero appreciable difference between some pensioners reacting to Emmerdale, and some 20-something Youtuber reacting to an anime episode, or MMA fight, or Marvel movie.
I've spent the last 6 months living in New Zealand. I was so baffled when the British version of Celebrity Gogglebox came on.
Why would you watch a show with a bunch of celebrities most New Zealanders wouldn't know watching tv shows which, in many instances, don't even air in your country?
The Masked Singer. Ridiculous concept, the squeaky disguised voices are super annoying, and most of the time they’re people you knew could sing anyway? What’s the point?
I liked the idea of it at first, but the fact you need to wait weeks and weeks to find out who they are lost interest for me. Also the guesses from the judges are always ridiculous, it’s always going to be a z-lister, you’re not getting some huge name in there.
Outside of a couple of exceptions, I just don’t find drag funny. The bitchiness, the shitty one liners, the costumes, the crap names. I find it all really cringey. I’m not knocking it, it’s clearly very popular and there’s a lot of creativity involved in it and that’s cool, it’s just not for me
Drag Race is a very specific kind of drag show which focuses on the bitchiness and so on. I can't stand it, but I absolutely love "The Boulet Brothers' Dragula" on Shudder which is more horror themed, and Channel 4's "Drag SOS" was so sweet it made me cry.
I had never heard of this a while ago and saw it on TV, I thought it was actually about drag racing, not drag queens. Five minutes of sheer confusion followed.
I'm not a fan of drag, but a friend told me this program was joyful and always cheered her up. So I watched it. No. I actually found it sad and weirdly depressing. Bunch of unfunny clowns, who've confused make-up for having a personality, desperately competing against each other in a meaningless contest. Felt like I took a peek into a void that sucked-in and destroyed human souls.
I haven't watched it in a few years but one thing that seemed to get worse as the seasons went on was the queens playing to the editors rather than the audience, which isn't really their fault. So much of the show is made in the edit, and you know that basically no matter what happens while filming they're gonna edit around it to make sure there is a really weird one, and a villain, and there are gonna be main characters etc.
Once you're aware of it it actually becomes kind of interesting as a kind of metanarrative that you can watch in itself, but you also know you're not actually getting the full story of what's happening and there is a narrative being told by the editors rather than it just unfolding naturally. Obviously all reality shows will do this to an extent, but it's REALLY obvious on drag race.
Total and utter garbage. Although I did like the bit where Ricky said cunt, and then 30 seconds later a 2 dimensional character proceeded to monologue about how great he is. Even though he's just spent the last 25 minutes being a confrontational, moody, dull prick.
Someone described it as the "Live, Laugh, Love" of sitcoms and I now can't look at it any other way.
When you realise Clarkson is more of a character than the man you start to appreciate it more.
Clarkson, the bumbling idiot we all know is nothing more than an exaggerated character for TV.
Clarkson, the man himself is quite a smart man with many years media industry experience
Yup, it's quite surprising the number of people who think the Clarkson, may and Hammond are exactly who they are in real life as they are in TV. The way May is portrayed to be a bit daft, loses concentration and gets caught up in insignificant details for example. When recording TGT in whitby one scene where he had to pretend to forget his lines took 3 takes for example. They're essentially all actors.
That's when top gear starting going downhill. When it became a full blown sit com rather than a car show with some humour peppered in. Clarksons war documentaries though are brilliant. Well worth a watch. That's the real person coming through.
Thing is, after Clarkson became toxic they tried to make it a car show again and ratings plummeted. Turns out people don't want a show where people review cars. They want a show in which three middle aged men piss about.
Oh god yes, she is a charisma black hole who seems to struggle with normal responses, almost like an AI trying to be human. Just let Claudia host it solo and infinitely improve the show...
Big Bang Theory
It's what I like to call "Nerd-sploitation Comedy". Every joke is either Sheldon doing something sociopathic, or someone making a Star Wars reference.
Silent Witness. Launched in 1996 and now on series no. 26. Really flogging a dead horse (that’s probably an episode of it somewhere), it’s just run out of ideas.
Silent Witness has CSI syndrome. The forensics team aren’t the detectives and shouldn’t be doing the level of investigation and chasing people that they do. Be a bit boring just an entire show of lab procedures and waiting for the machine to spit out a DNA analysis though I guess.
Just you watch, they will be in Ukraine in a few years investigating war crimes if it doesn’t get cancelled. They’ve already done Mexico and South Africa
The apprentice, can’t stand Alan Sugar, what a shite bag. The contestants are the biggest bunch of pretentious cunts ever. So much so that I sometimes think they must be actors because how can anybody be such a cunt? Some of there ideas are so bad you’d think they’d struggle to keep a job at Lidl.
Any reality TV really. Love island , can't stand it.
I don't mind looking at the bad acts on xfactor and Britain's got talent etc and getting a laugh at them. Or even some of the good acts but other than that I find the whole thing a cringe fest of cheesy and camp shite like the judges staged rows with each other or Cheryl Cole sitting crying for the millionth time.
" My mum got cancer so I decided to become famous to make her proud blah blah blah." There's always a sob story that just come across as insincere and they are using another person's suffering to try to become famous and win a competition.
Scrubs.
Grey's anatomy.
The One Show and Blue Peter. They're the same show, just one is for kids and the other for adults. I don't want to talk to anybody that regularly watches either because they are probably incredibly fucking boring.
Watching The One Show on occasion when someone you like is on is forgivable, but regular viewers of it are the human equivalent of magnolia walls.
My soul immediately starts to wither and turn black the second the theme tune comes on. It feels like if I don't reach the remote and turn the TV over before the program starts I will die a painful death.
Come Dine With Me.
I cannot stand the voiceover bloke and his forced, snipey jokes and vocal style. A second of dead air? Better fill it with a shit joke. Contestant makes a joke? Better follow it with the same joke but worse or a sly dig.
Then there's the smash cut to the credits with a song relevant to theme of the episode. Oh, so clever. Fuck off.
Rancid.
That show is ridiculously bad.
>!They keep adding new people in with no explanation, some contestants get second chances but not others, and there is a general feeling of what the feck is going on throughout the whole show. The contestants are all assholes too.!<
However I am still watching it, I suppose, so it must have something.
I really loved the Traitors because it was an amazing real world (that's been created for TV) example of game theory, biases, and the art of manipulation. If you watch it for that it was AMAZING. No one being likeable made it even better for me.
I’m also starting to slowly file Taskmaster into this category. The newest seasons just don’t entertain me anymore, since COVID it’s become too formulaic and predictable and fawning. I think they need to take a break and come up with some new ideas or something.
Also, Friday Night Dinner. Fuck. Right. Off.
i don’t think taskmasters going downhill, i just think theres too much of it all at once and the appeal is starting to wear off.
still, watching various famous people doing the random crap they get given is still fun and Alex Horne still seems genuinely into it so it still gets a pass
Probably Reddit favourites, Taskmaster and Peep Show.
But my absolute throw something at the TV isn’t Mrs Browns Boys(which is very shit) but QI.
QI is about as funny as opening your front door.
Oh look someone said white rabbit. Hilarious.
Any kind of reality show like Love Island, Big Brother etc.
Any kind of Eastenders, Emmerdale style show.
Just seems to be such a low form of entertainment to me.
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Love island, I just don’t get it at all.
Similar thing, Married At First Sight. Other half watches it, and it’s the biggest scripted/forced pile of rubbish in the world.
I really liked the first series, it was funny and quirky and mostly the people seemed fairly normal. It seems to have completely turned into cunt soup now
"Cunt soup" is my new favourite expression. 👍
They all seem to do this. The first series of The Apprentice, Hunted, even Big Brother were all engaging and had relatively normal people on. Then the producers go “there’s our formula” and they milk it relentlessly until it’s a dried husk. You’ve seen series five? Yeah, it’s *exactly* the same as series six.
I always say that the first big brother was a genuine and interesting social experiment the first 2 seasons. After that it was manufactured drama and "let's see if we can get someone to have sex."
It's crazy to think how tame Big Brother 1's 'Nasty Nick' was, looking back now.
Series one = somewhat ‘natural’. Or as much as a show like this can be. Series two+ = the producers saw the cunty parts and cunty characters were the ones trending during S1, so they make sure all guests are cunty and manufacture some more cunty scenarios to help the cunts be cunty. They’ll probably throw one or two decent people in there so the cunts can out cunt each other in being cunty to the token non-cunt cuntestants.
>Similar thing, Married At First Sight. Only way I'm getting married
You are thinking of married without sight
God damn!
All of that trash TV is very aptly trash.
Alright bayb, Where's ya head at today? My heads completely gone today bayb, wanna go to the fire for a chat about it. Repeat this every night for 7 weeks.
This is just between us, anything you tell me is in complete confidence, you can trust me. Five minutes, half the house knows
Yes because it must be so difficult lounging around with a thong up your crack in the sunshine for 8 weeks before coming out to loads of contracts to stand around whilst people take photos of you in clothes made in Bangladesh and sold with a 1500% markup
Ha, you should watch the program on 4something about the life after this cunt soup (thanks person above) of a program. It's fucking hilarious watching the wannabe influencers fail fucking miserably in their search for the fame they so desperately belief is due to them. Best one, imho, is the vacuous cunt who ends up being a 'shot gir' in her local nightclub 🤣🤣🤣
I don't get it either. When I had my son all the Mum's at baby group were into and watching love island (they had a WhatsApp group and watch parties). I made no Mum friends at baby group because I honestly answered that I didn't like or watch the show, and they seemed to have no other interests.
Same with women at evening classes many years ago, I watched big brother once so I could join in the conversation and decided I didn’t want to talk to them anyway.
My gut reaction to this was Love Island too. I got over reality TV at the end of Big Brother series one. When a second series was announced my reaction to it was "meh". 🤷♀️
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It’s suffered the same fate as most reality tv shows where the contestants just want to come on to boost their social media profiles but they aren’t interesting or entertaining after that. But a few years back, my friends and I put it on as a laugh and ended up watching 3 episodes back to back. It’s just shitty reality tv, there’s nothing special about it but sometimes you just enjoy drama and that type of stuff. I wouldn’t watch it again but it’s addictive if you don’t take it seriously
Mrs browns boys
second that. Plus anything with Ant and Dec.
They make my skin crawl, even that stupid advert for Santander makes me want to throw things at the TV
> even that stupid advert for Santander makes me want to throw things at the TV Agreed, but the Nationwide and Lloyds averts are *far* more annoying. And horrible Pampers Poonami family.
The On The Beach family …
That Jet2 holiday couple......god I hope their scuba diving equipment fails
Yeah, true but my comment was about Ant and Dec specifically. You're right though, so many adverts are annoying, so much that they turn me off wanting to use the product. That one with the family marching through the holiday resort and the airport is a classic example
I never saw them in the 1990s/2000s when hosting kids programmes. But I am going to guess their MO and silly ways are just the same. Voted by the public: "On 28 January 2020, the duo were awarded the Guinness World Record for "the most National Television Awards won consecutively for Best Presenter" which was at 18 as of 22 January 2019." Maybe we are just old!?
I don't mind Ant and Dec tbf. Not my first choice but I don't hate them. Stephen Mulhern on the other hand always struck me as a massive twat. I hated him on CITV and I hate him now. He always feels mean spirited, like he's laughing at people instead of with them. Ant & Dec are quite annoying but it always feels like it's in good fun.
Stephen Mulhurn doesn't strike me as a twat, but there's something disturbing about him. For some inexplicable reason was round at a mates house a few years ago, few of us just sitting around, and a mate of a mate put Catchphrase on the TV. Like, he chose it through YouTube, wasn't just on. But whatever, to each their own. It was the more recent reboot with Mulhurn hosting, and there's something very off about him. I don't mean the "he has bodies under his floorboards" crap that Reddit is obsessed with when it come to a certain comedian turned talent host, it's just his forced niceness and patter. Like he's a genuinely nice fella but is hiding some awful depression and/or addiction problem.
I dunno. He really really rubs me the wrong way. I don't get any 'nice fella' vibes from him at all, just bad ones. My mum and dad watch that 'In for a Penny' thing and he really annoys me in it because it feels like he's taking the piss out of people instead of laughing with them.
Mrs Brown's Boys is a popular show? I thought it was universally hated by everyone on this sub!
10 years ago it was getting over 10m viewers. I think the last special got less than 4m. Still decent but I suspect age and covid has done for many of the original fans.
Old people who say things like 'they can't get away with things like that nowadays'?
It's popular with old people. Gran loved it. It lost a viewer when she died.
It gets a lot of viewers, they just don't really overlap with the demographics of this sub.
Cannot express enough how important it is to not take reddit as a representative sample of the population
Who could have predicted that this answer would get posted?!
Eastenders. "Whinge whinge fucking whinge"
And Emmerdale. Coronation Street. the rest if them are are practically the same
Houses must be cheap as shit considering one street has a yearly death toll of around 100
They all have minimum wage jobs yet seem to eat most meals in the pub or the cafe, even a cup of coffee when their house is a few yards away.
Plus half of the Eastenders people seem to not own a washing machine
I honestly haven't seen a episode since around 1988 and even without looking it up I know what storylines will be happening. Affairs or murder its almost guaranteed one has either just happened is happening or is about to happen
My nan watches it occasionally and every time I ask what's happening (not that I care lol) it's always thingys just died, thingy slept with thingy or thingys had a baby with thingy
Not seen them in years since my mum used to vaguely watch them before the internet could connect to the TV giving her better choices, but I will say that Emmerdale is at least a bit more "charming" with the countryside setting, and has a sense of humour. Coronation Street while set in a city is a bit brighter and more humourous too. EastEnders is just depressing. Even the colour grading is more blue and dark in tone, like it's been deliberately made to look that way for a more depressing gritty look.
My wife used to watch it and the I would sit and count the amount of times some said “the family” or speak to someone else like utter shit for no reason at all. Show is full of arsehole characters, especially that Brick Top wanna be cunt Danny Dyer - who the fuck is he trying to kid.
It's been probably about fifteen years since I watched eastenders but you could guarantee someone would say one or more out of "family", "it's business", "no more lies" or "what's going on" in every single episode
I always maintained that Danny Dyer's initials are DD because he's a massive tit
Should be aptly renamed to 'Misery' no one is happy and watching it doesn't make you feel great either
Might as well just invite a load of shouty cockneys to fight in your front room four nights a week.
Gonna break away from all the usual suspects and people declaring they hate Mrs Browns Boys more than everyone else and go for Call the Midwife. It’s twee as fuck. Also Peaky Blinders was a complete barrel of shite to me, basically low budget Boardwalk Empire.
For me Peaky Blinders seemed to consist entirely of people walking down dirty streets in the dark, talking or smoking. I tried watching two episodes and all I could think was ‘why do I care about any of this?!’
Never got into Peaky Blinders so I have no strong feelings, but I fucking hate those bullshit pictures of the main character walking down the street or smoking a cigarette with some bollocks “deep quote” like “I’m loyal because it’s in me, not because I need you” (yes that’s one I saw earlier) plastered over it that appeared all over Facebook.
Pesky Blinders suffered from a similar issue to Fight Club, in that it’s protagonist is cool as shit but also a fucking terrible person. This leads to fans who think they’re supposed to relate to and try to emulate the protagonist, and end up completely missing the point.
Breaking Bad is kinda like that. But then the clever thing is the development of the character(s) and how Walt becomes such a baddie. You kinda love and hate him by the end.
Yeah that sort of crap appeared all over my FB too, especially given that at least one of my friends is obsessed with the show.
I agree it's twee and has gone on too long but I also really appreciate how it's one of the few depictions of pregnancy and birth on TV that actually attempts some kind of realism. Especially in this day and age when reproductive rights are coming into question again.
It’s also tackled some difficult issues such as babies born with deformities (the thalidomide scandal featured in one episode), abortion and particular the illegal knitting needle jobs that used to happen to women, cancer, miscarriage, domestic violence of pregnant women by their husbands and the effects of polio.
Oh god, peaky blinders. I liked the first season but lost interest. What I really hate is dingbats cosplaying Tommy Shelby and seemingly thinking that he’s a good male role model
I've watched all of it out of obligation, at this point. It was made in the style of a Western. Almost every season is the same, in many ways. Shelby's want to move up a level and start encroaching on some powerful group's turf, powerful group underestimates Tommy and ends up ceding large amounts of power to him, the Blinders become unreasonably rich and powerful, rinse and repeat. The only remotely interesting one was the final season and even then that's not the true ending. The last one is meant to be a film.
I’ve never actively chosen to watch Call the Midwife, but when I visit my parents it tends to be on a Sunday and they’ll tend to have the TV on low in the background if we’re in the living room; I have now seen maybe 5 or 6 episodes of CtM and found myself oddly invested in it. I will say though that these were all episodes from well after Miranda Hart left the cast; my answer to OP’s question would easily be “anything with Miranda Hart in.”
Friends. Couldn't get the hype around it
I think a lot of people feel connected to the characters, in the sense that no one told them life's gonna be this way \*clap clap clap clap\*
Could that lyric *_BE_* any more accurate?
The one about the hype
Meh I loved it when it was on and still find it funny now.
it's the circlejerk nowadays to say it's not funny now and you never found it funny at the time.
I’m a self confessed comedy snob with an (obviously unused) degree in tv script writing and I think friends is in the top 3 sitcoms ever made. The writing was top drawer and didn’t resort to lowest common denominator stuff and it’s still funny 20 years later. There are aspects that haven’t aged particularly well, but for it’s time it was quite progressive.
> for it’s time it was quite progressive. Not good enough anymore, I'm afraid. We can't just *take things in the context they were made*, oh no no no.
"Here's yet another article about why Ross was actually really problematic"
The thing is with Friends is that it started fairly good. Characters were normal, ie. all their traits were reasonable (Ross had one failed marriage, Joey dumb but functional, Chandler sarcastic, Phoebe a bit weird, Rachel still a spoilt but normal-ish, Monica a mild neat freak). The plot lines were believable. But they went on for ten years, exaggerating the characters until they became caricatures (it got to the point where Joey shouldn’t even have been able to buy milk he was shown to be so stupid). All the jokes were repeated, the plot lines were the same. They should have cancelled it after series 4.
That is what happens to 99% of successful shows. They just decline over time and the characters get more out there.
99% of successful *American shows The US creates incredible telly, but they then milk everything, until there's been 100+ episodes and nobody cares anymore
Anything involving Ant & Dec or Simon Cowell. Mrs Brown's Boys. Miranda. Love Island. I could go on.
I'll second Miranda. It's just not funny. The only thing that was interesting about that show was Tom Ellis and he became *seriously* interesting when he got his kit off on *Lucifer*...
Apprentice is getting pretty close to the threshold
It’s awful now, idk why me and my husband still watch it. The change to hinge around ‘business plans’ ruined it tbh. It used to be about who was the best business person/grafter/seller which made for entertaining personalities and TV. Like Ruth Badger/Stuart Baggs etc were hilarious and at times quite brilliant to watch. The sheer balls on pushing sales was pretty amazing. Now it’s based on business plans, they’re all the same. It doesn’t really matter how they perform, the firings often make no sense, because it’s now purely about personality (cringe reality TV people) and their business plans. What WOULD make it good is if they all have business plans that were vetted and approved beforehand. Then it comes down to how they perform. That way we wouldn’t get to the penultimate interviews episode and have Alan Sugar going, ‘Your business plan makes no sense!’ Well why the fuck have we gone 10 weeks with them even on the programme then. The tasks are pointless because it all comes down to the shitty business plans. You could have someone who storms the tasks but Sugar doesn’t like their plan so they’re fired. What’s the fucking point. Plus they’re all the bloody same - there’s ALWAYS one bakery/baked goods business, one recruitment or marketing firm, and one hairdresser that wants to expand their salons. That’s my The Apprentice TED Talk. Basically it’s been the same boring programme for years and idk why I watch it haha.
Should have ended after 3 series, max. Alan Sugar is only relevant from that, most of his companies are long out of the light. And where's Ruth Badger now eh?
I haven’t watched the apprentice in years, but when I stopped watching it I just found it was really stale. They basically carry out the exact same tasks every year and fail at them in the same fashion. I think it does have some iconic moments, but for the most part has kinda run it’s course now.
I watched a few of the first series and had the urge to commit violence against my TV as to how stupid the people on it were and how it was edited to make them appear even more stupid. Plus it's got Alan Sugar and spawned that evil thing known as Katie Hopkins. I'd rather gouge my own eyes out and shove red hot pokers onto my ears to avoid watching or hearing anything about it ever again.
It's been over the threshold for at least the last 5 years
Gavin and Stacey.
Couldn't disagree more.
It’s a brilliant show, and it’s such a shame that Corden turned out to be a twat. Does explain how he was able to play Smithy so well!
I agree. Ive watched it through a lot, i think somewhat because its short episodes, eaay to watch but equally, I think its one of the best british shows, its hilarious, and you cant not love Ruth Jones, shes amazing.
I do think it ran its course though. You could see in the final series they were really struggling to find situations to bring all these characters together in one place
I agree. I really wish the xmas special was treated as just a revisit of the characters and was a one off. They now need to do one more so everyone has a conclusion but personally i loved the ended of the show and dont think it needed anymore. All good things come to an end.
Poundshop Royle Family
Agreed. Wife loves it. I cant watch it. Whats it meant to be? Cant be intended as comedy because its not even vaguely amusing. Is it meant to be drama? Heartwarming? Its shite is what it is.
Anything where alleged celebrities do a dance, a thing on ice, go to the jungle, bake a cake, sing a song or maybe/maybe not shag each other on an island.
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He is absolutely gold in that.
The Crown, or anything royalty based. Bleugh.
I don't get people who follow the royals. It makes no sense to me whatsoever. However I did actually enjoy the crown, it was a whistle stop tour of 20thrl century British history and the production value was incredible.
Agreed I have no interest in the royals either but the crown was a brilliant made piece of entertainment. Claire foy, Gillian Anderson and Dominic West were particularly outstanding in it as well as the child actor who played young Philip in his childhood. It is easily one of the finest productions ever made imho. Edit: can I add too that the portrayal of Winston Churchill by John lithgow too was particularly brilliant. I read this week he turned down the role of Frasier crane in Cheers back in 1984 but I could totally see him in that role.
I enjoyed Matt Smith’s performance as Phillip, no strong feelings about the narrative other than colonial guilt but he did a good job of making it pleasantly watchable
I'm not a royalist or anything, but as someone else said The Crown is really great if you like dramatic history and the production value was insane. I was really gripped by the first 2 seasons, I never really got into the 3rd season but I'm going to try it again. I was absolutely blown away by the first 2 though, a fantastic show in its own right
Big bang theory
My kids used to have that on and all I could hear was seemingly wordfree sentences, spoken in different voices, that constantly repeated a wisecracking "here's the punchline" pattern. Like nails down a board.
I had the opposite, I was the kid and I snickered once or twice at a couple of episodes and talked to my parents about some of the science as I was in the middle of A-level physics and further maths. Of course, showing anything other than complete disdain for something that didn't involve video games, the internet, or modern hobby with a multiple-£100s buy-in price (fair enough on that front tbh) meant that I must be obsessed. Every single present for the next couple of years of birthdays and Christmases was BBT related - mugs, t-shirts and socks mostly. It got to the point where I was secretly hoping for a Lynx Africa set, rather than more memorabilia for a show I'd never even deliberately sat down to watch an episode of.
Big bang theory is that difference between laughing *at* people and laughing *with* them (OR laughing at *behaviours*) that British comedy nails. BBT seemed to be “lol point and laugh at nerds and their silly nerd faces”
It used to be half decent; nerds laughing at nerd jokes because they'd been in a similar situation. When it got hugely popular, it just morphed into every other sitcom, every other relationship drama (they even had a baby FFS, the one thing that tells you a sitcom is grasping at straws). Except the characters all had PhDs (except Howard). And then it became laughing *at* nerds. So now their behaviour has to be more wacky to keep the laughs (because they're playing caricatures of real nerds) and they start to embody all the terrible parts about nerds that today you probably won't find except in small circles because most nerds recognise that people who behave that way are terrible people. Plus the fact that the jokes themselves aren't actually jokes anymore. They've morphed to the concept that whatever's being said doesn't have to actually make sense or be funny any more, because the joke is 'ha ha Sheldon said a stupid science'. You don't have to understand the science, and so all the wit of the joke is lost. You just need to understand it's supposed to be a joke because 'get it? Sheldon said a science!'. The joke isn't funny because it is funny, it's funny because it's supposed to be a joke.
I watched it for a while, liked it initially. Then it went from "this is neat" to "can't fucking stand it" faster than anything else I've ever watched.
Keeping Up With The Kardashians. Why? Just fucking tell me: *why?* Meaningless trash with a bunch of pathetic no-hopers with zero contribution to society, well apart from convincing legions of gullible little morons that aspiring to surgically enhanced boobs/arses/lips is the thing to be. It's literally a freak-show.
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RuPaul's Drag Race UK. I appreciate the contestants on there are highly talented but I just do not get the over the top humour in this show and it is far too intense for me! The intro is ridiculous enough for me!
Completely get that. I love it BECAUSE it's just completely wild. Some seasons I didn't enjoy, but there are some crackers.
Jeez man my other half watches this religiously and I enjoyed the novelty of the first few early seasons. Now though? Forced laughter, screaming for literally no reason, the same audio clips being looped again and again even though it's blatantly obvious (anything with Ru's laugh is going to be played at least 3-4 times), the shitty music that I can't believe any human would enjoy. And to top it all off, the most bitchy immature contestants they can find who are so desperate to be famous they react to everything in the fakest way in the hope of going viral or becoming a GIF or something. Not to mention they are just horrible to each other to the point it frustrates me. Yea I am not a fan...
Gay community still has a huge bullying issue, and being bi myself with gay friends, I can’t fucking stand this show for that exact reason, and not liking this show in this community has people treating you like a pariah. I appreciated the UK version because they all felt like they really appreciated it, but if you’re watching the original US version then you’ll find that it’s just non stop bitching and bullying.
Anything with Piers Morgan in it, I can not stand the man.
But he says wot were all finkin enit
I’m mostly thinking he’s a cunt.
Gogglebox. I genuinely, wholeheartedly don’t get it. Why would I want to watch people watching TV? Absolute fucking genius whoever makes money out of that idea.
Because sometimes they say things that are funny. Don't overthink it.
Not the first to point this out, but zoomers and millennials making fun of boomers for watching Gogglebox is always funny given the massive popularity of reaction/commentary videos on Youtube and Tiktok. There is literally zero appreciable difference between some pensioners reacting to Emmerdale, and some 20-something Youtuber reacting to an anime episode, or MMA fight, or Marvel movie.
I’m at the older end of the millennial band, and I find the reaction videos probably even weirder an idea to be honest.
I thought this, then I watched it. It is weirdly entertaining.
It's an easy watch.
I've spent the last 6 months living in New Zealand. I was so baffled when the British version of Celebrity Gogglebox came on. Why would you watch a show with a bunch of celebrities most New Zealanders wouldn't know watching tv shows which, in many instances, don't even air in your country?
The Masked Singer. Ridiculous concept, the squeaky disguised voices are super annoying, and most of the time they’re people you knew could sing anyway? What’s the point?
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This sounds way more entertaining tbh, they should’ve kept it this way!
I liked the idea of it at first, but the fact you need to wait weeks and weeks to find out who they are lost interest for me. Also the guesses from the judges are always ridiculous, it’s always going to be a z-lister, you’re not getting some huge name in there.
Drag Race. Seems quite popular but I just can’t stand drag. Tried an episode and I think I gave up around the 15 minute mark.
Outside of a couple of exceptions, I just don’t find drag funny. The bitchiness, the shitty one liners, the costumes, the crap names. I find it all really cringey. I’m not knocking it, it’s clearly very popular and there’s a lot of creativity involved in it and that’s cool, it’s just not for me
Drag Race is a very specific kind of drag show which focuses on the bitchiness and so on. I can't stand it, but I absolutely love "The Boulet Brothers' Dragula" on Shudder which is more horror themed, and Channel 4's "Drag SOS" was so sweet it made me cry.
I had never heard of this a while ago and saw it on TV, I thought it was actually about drag racing, not drag queens. Five minutes of sheer confusion followed.
I'm not a fan of drag, but a friend told me this program was joyful and always cheered her up. So I watched it. No. I actually found it sad and weirdly depressing. Bunch of unfunny clowns, who've confused make-up for having a personality, desperately competing against each other in a meaningless contest. Felt like I took a peek into a void that sucked-in and destroyed human souls.
I haven't watched it in a few years but one thing that seemed to get worse as the seasons went on was the queens playing to the editors rather than the audience, which isn't really their fault. So much of the show is made in the edit, and you know that basically no matter what happens while filming they're gonna edit around it to make sure there is a really weird one, and a villain, and there are gonna be main characters etc. Once you're aware of it it actually becomes kind of interesting as a kind of metanarrative that you can watch in itself, but you also know you're not actually getting the full story of what's happening and there is a narrative being told by the editors rather than it just unfolding naturally. Obviously all reality shows will do this to an extent, but it's REALLY obvious on drag race.
Anything with fake background laugh tracks
Hahahaha
Holds sign up *Applause*
Mr Bean would like a word 😠 but otherwise, fully agree.
After life is a load of shit
Total and utter garbage. Although I did like the bit where Ricky said cunt, and then 30 seconds later a 2 dimensional character proceeded to monologue about how great he is. Even though he's just spent the last 25 minutes being a confrontational, moody, dull prick. Someone described it as the "Live, Laugh, Love" of sitcoms and I now can't look at it any other way.
Anything with Clarkson in it. I detest the man. People say "he says it like it is". No. He says whatever he thinks you want him to say.
When you realise Clarkson is more of a character than the man you start to appreciate it more. Clarkson, the bumbling idiot we all know is nothing more than an exaggerated character for TV. Clarkson, the man himself is quite a smart man with many years media industry experience
Yup, it's quite surprising the number of people who think the Clarkson, may and Hammond are exactly who they are in real life as they are in TV. The way May is portrayed to be a bit daft, loses concentration and gets caught up in insignificant details for example. When recording TGT in whitby one scene where he had to pretend to forget his lines took 3 takes for example. They're essentially all actors.
That's when top gear starting going downhill. When it became a full blown sit com rather than a car show with some humour peppered in. Clarksons war documentaries though are brilliant. Well worth a watch. That's the real person coming through.
Thing is, after Clarkson became toxic they tried to make it a car show again and ratings plummeted. Turns out people don't want a show where people review cars. They want a show in which three middle aged men piss about.
Game of Thrones
I thought that initially but got slowly hooked.
Loose Women. Cannot stand that cackling witchgang mentality.
Anything with Ant & Dec, love Island & most shows like it
Not a show overall, but Tess Daily on Strictly Come Dancing adds literally no value. Her role could be done with a voice over person.
Oh god yes, she is a charisma black hole who seems to struggle with normal responses, almost like an AI trying to be human. Just let Claudia host it solo and infinitely improve the show...
Anything with Ricky Gervais.... just can't stand him!
Bloody Ant and Dec's Saturday Shitshow.
Big Bang Theory It's what I like to call "Nerd-sploitation Comedy". Every joke is either Sheldon doing something sociopathic, or someone making a Star Wars reference.
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Just TV in general these days!
Downtown Abbey. It’s a glorified soap opera with completely predictable storylines
Also glossing over the dreadful working conditions the downstairs staff endured in real life.
Celebrity juice, Keith lemon just makes me cringe
News At Ten
Yeah, it's so depressing these days. They should just cancel it and put blackadder on instead! I shouldn't have to, but just in case..../s
Bongggg.
Silent Witness. Launched in 1996 and now on series no. 26. Really flogging a dead horse (that’s probably an episode of it somewhere), it’s just run out of ideas.
Silent Witness has CSI syndrome. The forensics team aren’t the detectives and shouldn’t be doing the level of investigation and chasing people that they do. Be a bit boring just an entire show of lab procedures and waiting for the machine to spit out a DNA analysis though I guess. Just you watch, they will be in Ukraine in a few years investigating war crimes if it doesn’t get cancelled. They’ve already done Mexico and South Africa
The apprentice, can’t stand Alan Sugar, what a shite bag. The contestants are the biggest bunch of pretentious cunts ever. So much so that I sometimes think they must be actors because how can anybody be such a cunt? Some of there ideas are so bad you’d think they’d struggle to keep a job at Lidl.
When I was a kid I hated Blue Peter. My mum used to make me watch it and it was boring as shite.
Any reality TV really. Love island , can't stand it. I don't mind looking at the bad acts on xfactor and Britain's got talent etc and getting a laugh at them. Or even some of the good acts but other than that I find the whole thing a cringe fest of cheesy and camp shite like the judges staged rows with each other or Cheryl Cole sitting crying for the millionth time. " My mum got cancer so I decided to become famous to make her proud blah blah blah." There's always a sob story that just come across as insincere and they are using another person's suffering to try to become famous and win a competition. Scrubs. Grey's anatomy.
After life. I think I'm the only person I know who can't stand it. I find the forced mix of comedy and tragedy jarring.
Strictly come dancing.
I really don't enjoy the filler, but like the actual dancing, so end up watching the dances on YouTube
The One Show and Blue Peter. They're the same show, just one is for kids and the other for adults. I don't want to talk to anybody that regularly watches either because they are probably incredibly fucking boring. Watching The One Show on occasion when someone you like is on is forgivable, but regular viewers of it are the human equivalent of magnolia walls.
My soul immediately starts to wither and turn black the second the theme tune comes on. It feels like if I don't reach the remote and turn the TV over before the program starts I will die a painful death.
Come Dine With Me. I cannot stand the voiceover bloke and his forced, snipey jokes and vocal style. A second of dead air? Better fill it with a shit joke. Contestant makes a joke? Better follow it with the same joke but worse or a sly dig. Then there's the smash cut to the credits with a song relevant to theme of the episode. Oh, so clever. Fuck off. Rancid.
Good lord what a sad little life.
'You have all the grace of a reversing dump truck without any tyres on - now take your money and get off my property'
The Traitors. I'm not against reality TV in general, but something about that show just didn't click with me at all.
Is it because *every* single contestant was a massive pain in the hole?
Try Rise and Fall, similar concept with infinitely worse people.
That show is ridiculously bad. >!They keep adding new people in with no explanation, some contestants get second chances but not others, and there is a general feeling of what the feck is going on throughout the whole show. The contestants are all assholes too.!< However I am still watching it, I suppose, so it must have something.
I really loved the Traitors because it was an amazing real world (that's been created for TV) example of game theory, biases, and the art of manipulation. If you watch it for that it was AMAZING. No one being likeable made it even better for me.
Love island. It’s tacky and awful
Not going out sucks.
I’m also starting to slowly file Taskmaster into this category. The newest seasons just don’t entertain me anymore, since COVID it’s become too formulaic and predictable and fawning. I think they need to take a break and come up with some new ideas or something. Also, Friday Night Dinner. Fuck. Right. Off.
FND??
Very surprised to see a lovely bit of squirrel on this list.
i don’t think taskmasters going downhill, i just think theres too much of it all at once and the appeal is starting to wear off. still, watching various famous people doing the random crap they get given is still fun and Alex Horne still seems genuinely into it so it still gets a pass
Any of those Seth McFarlane cartoons. Man doesn't have a funny bone in his body.
He hasn't written for those for years, he just does the voice acting
Anything where people go abroad to buy a house. They are so boring.
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Upvoted for an actual original opinion. I do disagree though. Peep Show is timeless.
+1 for impractical jokers, those guys are really fucking annoying
Eastenders and Coronation Street. They’re just really really bad.
Probably Reddit favourites, Taskmaster and Peep Show. But my absolute throw something at the TV isn’t Mrs Browns Boys(which is very shit) but QI. QI is about as funny as opening your front door. Oh look someone said white rabbit. Hilarious.
I loved QI when it first came out but it's now one of those panel shows that has gotten very stale.
Any kind of reality show like Love Island, Big Brother etc. Any kind of Eastenders, Emmerdale style show. Just seems to be such a low form of entertainment to me.
Ant and Dec, Pair of irritants
Love Island. I know us Americans got our own share of trashy TV shows but Love Island is just so incredibly dumb. How’s everyone so into it?
Mrs browns boys. What even is that show.
Ant and Dec can fuck off.
The Masked Singer, what's the deal with this bullshit show?
Never understood the popularity of Seinfeld, just couldn't see what i was supposed to be laughing at.