Bored With Repeats On Tv Now

[AKAMD]

As for standards of programs on any channel nowadays they are mostly rubbish in my view; I've no time for soaps, reality programs, comedy (?) and few game shows are worth watching.  But the BBC does politics well, current affairs, history and some decent drama.  Then there's the Parliament channel.  The BBC has also come up with the goods for home-schooling now the government have realized yet another catastophic blunder.  To those of you who are indifferent to, or resent paying for the BBC, you don't know what you got until you lose it!

[lavery549@yahoo]

7 hours ago, tinfoilhat said:

Unless you're thinking "young" is people in their 50s a d 60s, that's just nonsense. Look at what the presenters of radio 2 get paid!

No I am proper young ones , I am sure they are not interested & I agree , the presenters get paid far too much . Look at Gary Linekar for a start 

[RiffRaff]

On 13/01/2021 at 18:31, iansheff said:

The new programmes are not much better, who thought up Pooch Perfect?

Had the misfortune to catch part of the first broadcast.

Pretty dire, wasn't it?!

Decided to miss the second episode.

[iansheff]

I didn't watch it I don't have a dog and the thought of watching someone groom dogs doesn't appeal, what next horses before they are entered into dressage events?

On another item bit off topic has anyone else seen that Classic children's TV drama Grange Hill has been slapped with a racist and offensive language warning on streaming service Britbox.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/tv/grange-hill-slapped-with-offensive-language-warning-as-it-launches-on-britbox/ar-BB1cL3ke?ocid=msedgntp

Edited January 15, 2021 by iansheff

[ECCOnoob]

49 minutes ago, iansheff said:

I didn't watch it I don't have a dog and the thought of watching someone groom dogs doesn't appeal, what next horses before they are entered into dressage events?

On another item bit off topic has anyone else seen that Classic children's TV drama Grange Hill has been slapped with a racist and offensive language warning on streaming service Britbox.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/tv/grange-hill-slapped-with-offensive-language-warning-as-it-launches-on-britbox/ar-BB1cL3ke?ocid=msedgntp

Horses have already been done several years back if I recall. There was some celebrity challenge show about dressage so you missed the boat with that one.

 

Yeah I know what you mean about those warnings. This is commonplace now on all the television. They've done it with what I would deem, in my old man status, relatively recent sitcoms too.   Comedies as recent as Father Ted, Benidorm, League of Gentleman, the royale family, The Inbetweeners and even teenage kids shows all have to now have what they call 'trigger warnings' of potential modern day offence, homophobic language, inappropriate behaviour, sexism or racial slurs.

 

If you really want to get fascinated by the extent of it you should have a look up at some of the BBFC and and Ofcom reports that have to be applied to every show and film broadcast.  You should see the amount of intimate detail they have to go into to as to the nature of various references, frequency and quotations of what is said and how it may be interpreted.  

 

To think it's some poor soul's job to sit there for hours on end and each day day watching these things and going into forensic detail as to what could be deemed a trigger

 

What is it is tempting to go into the default position of ".....it's all such woke nonsense....", the fact is we are  living in the litigious, polarised and volitile world  and I'm well aware of the consequences of how things change, what is deemed acceptable and the repercussions at stake.

 

[pattricia]

And still the repeats continue !

[ECCOnoob]

13 hours ago, pattricia said:

And still the repeats continue !

.....so does the virus, restrictions, rules and lockdowns.

 

Doesn't make for easy filming and production of television shows that require anything more than an absolutely skeleton crew and the controlled confine of a fixed studio set. 

[Bargepole23]

1 hour ago, ECCOnoob said:

.....so does the virus, restrictions, rules and lockdowns.

 

Doesn't make for easy filming and production of television shows that require anything more than an absolutely skeleton crew and the controlled confine of a fixed studio set. 

And the need to fill a huge amount of TV time, as compared to the 3 or 4 channels we used to have. I would think that if we totted up all the new programming, including Sky, Netflix, Amazon et al, and took off the rose-tinted glasses, we would find that there's far more new stuff on the TV now.

[pattricia]

3 hours ago, ECCOnoob said:

.....so does the virus, restrictions, rules and lockdowns.

 

Doesn't make for easy filming and production of television shows that require anything more than an absolutely skeleton crew and the controlled confine of a fixed studio set. 

I understand.

[pintor]

Never mind, licence fees are going up, we can have more cooking & woke programmes in future