Christmas TV!

[mailee]

Ahhhh! I am sick of watching repeats and rubbish on the TV...I gotta get back to work and cancel my licence! :evil: Sorry guys, Rant over.

 

[Smithy]

Hi
I agree entirely. I thought it was rubbish with very few exceptions. We bought ourselves an internet radio for Christmas. It will be more radio and less television in the future.

Mike

 

[Frank S]

Ahhhh! I am sick of watching repeats and rubbish on the TV...I gotta get back to work and cancel my licence! :evil: Sorry guys, Rant over.

We were glad we had some DVDs to watch,but as the license is now free I shall hang on to it just in case something good does come up.
F.

 

[henton49er]

Hi
I agree entirely. I thought it was rubbish with very few exceptions.

Mike

+1 for that. Largely inane drivel aimed at the lowest common denominator. :roll: :roll:

 

[RogerS]

Agreed. There were a few gems...Restless, for example.

 

[Eric The Viking]

We had several days over the break when TV wasn't turned on at all. Even my youngest daughter didn't miss it much.

The best of the period for me was the reworked "Rare Exports"* on Ch4 (with subtitles), and last nights BBC2 showing of the Final Cut version of Blade Runner.

Otherwise, apart from Morcambe and Wise and an interesting documentary on Jeff Lynne, it was pretty barren, IMHO.

E.

*It was too late - I fell asleep in the middle! But if you haven't seen it, I found the original short is still on Vimeo here. It still makes me roar with laughter.

There's also the 2005 sequel: "Rare Exports - the official safety instructions". It's a bit darker, but I don't think it's quite as good as the original.

 

[brianhabby]

I don't think it's just Christmas TV either, we seem to be watching less and less these days

Maybe we're just getting old and grumpy

regards

Brian

 

[tekno.mage]

Agreed. Nearly all the TV over the Xmas period this year was dreadful - and so many repeats too. The only programmes I watched (apart from the news and weather) were Dr Who & Downtown Abbey... At least they were not repeats

 

[mailee]

Yes, got to admit I did watch Doctor Who with my lad who is a big fan. I also watched Restless which was very good. Pity dramas like that are few and far between. I guess the BBC can't afford to make many new shows due to the expense....especially when they waste so much on payoffs.

 

[Bills Elm]

I hate! sky lol

it's the same cr++ over and over again.... get me to my shed post haste!!

 

[Kalimna]

Gotta say, there were a few gems in there. Dr Who for one, the resolution to Merlin, the Snowdog n Snowman update, the RI Christmas lectures. But generaly, a bit meh.

Adam

 

[newt]

Ice pilots is very good, if you are at all interested in flying.

 

[Losos]

I guess the BBC can't afford to make many new shows due to the expense....especially when they waste so much on payoffs.

The fact is that the BBC is not the once great organisation it used to be, it is now emerging that there are so many faceless middle managers doing jobs that no one knows or controls. In the 1970's I used to listen to the World Service when I was in communist Eastern Europe, it was greatly admired in those days and I would often be asked by locals what the BBC were reporting and what the real facts were. Now the World Service is a joke.

The Jimmy Saville affair is a typical example of everyone passing the buck and when it finally emerges that some BBC executives were deliberately 'looking the other way' instead of sacking them they are just moved to other departments.

They are obsessed with being politically correct to the extent that they always give undue publicity to groups who are not in any way a major part of society but because the BBC is so out of touch and arrogant they can do it with no repercussions.

I have gone from being a great admirer of the BBC to one who is disgusted at their present day performance, the like of which in any other industry would have resulted in company liquidation and everyone being made redundant. I bet those ex-employees of Comet wished they worked for the BBC :lol:

 

[Dangermouse]

We got SO fed up with the rubbish on the television and paying for the privilege, that for the past 2 years we have been without any television at all. We now plan our watching around I-player on the computer and just watch what we want to, which isn't much. amazing the time we have spare to do other worthwhile things.

 

[RogerS]

We got SO fed up with the rubbish on the television and paying for the privilege, that for the past 2 years we have been without any television at all. We now plan our watching around I-player on the computer and just watch what we want to, which isn't much. amazing the time we have spare to do other worthwhile things.

The only drawback of that approach is that you are time-limited surely? We don't watch that much, to be honest, and hardly ever in realtime but being able to record means we can watch whenever we want. It won't time out and disappear from iPlayer. And my bandwidth allowance would get HAMMERED!

 

[Harbo]

With a Humax PVR we watch very little live TV.
Just record what might look interesting and watch at our leisure.
As for Commercial TV, never watch an advert again!

Rod

 

[wobblycogs]

We've not had a TV for, erm, longer than I can remember, about 14 years I think and it was honestly the best decision we ever made. We've taken to watching the odd thing on iPlayer and the other catch up services the last couple of years but because we have to choose what to watch we limit our viewing more. If what's available on iPlayer is a good reflection of what is broadcast then I'm glad we've not got a TV as even I'd seen most of what was on back when I was a kid.

 

[acewoodturner]

The amount of American crap available on my telly which is watched by my three kids who are 17, 15 and 11 is unbelievable. Its no wonder that canned laughter is added because in real life nobody would laugh at it. The best thing on the box was the Dad's Army film which I watched with my youngest daughter and she found it really good as she had just finished a project at school on ww2. My 15 year old daughter wasnt amused when I turned the telly over to watch this film but after about 20 mins got quite engrossd in it.
I would rather sit and watch the Discovery channels etc and actually learn something but I normally get outvoted. However at 10pm its 'my telly' and I get to watch what I want (and its very rarely bbc or itv) and if the kids arent happy they can just bogg off to bed.

 

[Racers]

My wife uses the TV for entertainment, I prefer to use it for education.

Pete

 

[Cheshirechappie]

Here's another one who's given up on TV. Got rid of mine last year, when I decided that what I got for my telly tax wasn't worth £145-50 a year. Don't miss it a bit.

I'm not sure when it started to deteriorate, but I found that almost all the comedy was banal or snidey. What happened to the likes of Jasper Carrott seeing the humour in day-to-day life? The sport was gradually pruned back (no Test Cricket), so that the only thing I wanted to watch was the Six Nations rugby. Then there were the 'educational' programmes, which seemed to be 50 minutes of fancy camera tricks and production gimmicks, and about 10 minutes of real substance. Then there's the news reporting - apparently, only about 6% of people understand the difference between Deficit and National Debt, but it's never explained, which is odd given that understanding them is pretty fundamental to understanding the country's economic position. Soaps? No thanks. Drama? Not what it used to be.

Sooner read a newspaper or book, thanks.