Stop telling me to watch The bloody Traitors!

It’s the same with Strictly - people go on and on about it and look amazed when I say I don’t watch it. I don’t watch The Traitors either.

I don't watch much reality TV, but I do love Traitors. After a hard and stressfull day at work, listening to people's problems, I like a bit of escapism. Some people watch soaps, they aren't my thing. I don't tell people what they should watch, but there is the opposite end of the scale when people get sniffy over other people's TV choices and " I don't watch that rubbish"...🙄

The type of show it is doesn't interest me for a start, but more than that, I cannot stand Claudia Winkleman at all. Just seeing her face gets on my nerves* so I am never going to watch anything she is in.

(*I expect she is truly distraught about my opinion)

This annoys me too. Especially conversations like this:

"Did you see Traitors/Strictly/Big Brother/the Queen's funeral yesterday?"

"No, I don't have a television, I don't see anything."

The person then tries to tell me all about it, probably feeling pity that I am missing out. If I was interested and wanted to spend my time watching TV I would buy a telly and a licence. Not sure why that isn't abundantly clear 🤷

It's an affectionate way of describing programmes you watch under the TV licence. Some of us are old and cannot remember if we saw something on channel 4 or ITV or on one of the BBC channels. Widely used in my part of the world, and not rude at all. Disney plus, Netflix, Prime, Paramount, Apple TV and "cooncil telly". .. are all valid answers when someone asks you where you've seen a film you're raving about, for example. ...
You're welcome.

I'm another one without a TV licence, and no, I won't be buying one at any point in the near future... mainly because I've never really been into watching TV. Nor do I have Netflix at the moment, so that cancels out anything on there, too! Poor me 😁

If you love it, that's fine, and I'll listen to you waffling on about it. It's just that I'm as unlikely to watch it as you are to take up aerial silks!

Possibly controversially, I find Alan Carr "a bit much". I thought the same about Jeremy Clarkson, due to over-exposure to Top Gear, until he started up Clarkson's Farm. He was quite bearable after that!

I feel the same about Love Island and TOWIE. How anyone can think that these shows are real and not scripted is beyond me

the traitors is all right as light entertainment but the contestants take themselves way too seriously. Tears and tantrums when they know the rules and they aren’t actually being accused of murder (or murdered, as Paloma Faith seemed to forget!)

You MUST watch Barry….

I’ve no interest either my mum keeps going on about it and a few other crappy programmes they watch, I don’t watch a lot of tv so certainly won’t be tuning in to anything like that. I don’t know why she keeps going on about it when I’ve said multiple times I’m not interested if you like it super but I don’t like people insisting I’ll like something when I really won’t and don’t want to watch

Am autistic and this program is abdolute hell for me.

I spend my life trying to read people - work out if they are being literal, sarcastic, funny or genuine… read the social cues - learn the rules of society to fit in… it’s exhausting and hard work.

here is a show designed to confuse the hell out of you as everyone is pretending to be something they are not or second guessing people who are genuine.

absolutely can’t stand it - not for me . Totally confuses me and I really dislike it.

my oh loves it

each to their own…

I’ve no interest in Traitors and Love Island/MAFS are my idea of TV hell.

But, I’m definitely not cool. I love to watch old episodes of Midsomer, Poirot or Marple.

It would be more tolerable if people could mention what it's about if you ask, any given programme, and leave you alone otherwise. My colleagues all watch a fair bit of reality TV so when they start talking about it I am literally head down, get on with my work and disengage from the conversation, because I never watch any of the shows they mention, and they know that at this point. So why they started telling me to watch The Traitors I don't know. Talk to the other people who are watching it, no need to try to connect with me over something you know I don't watch!

For people to then make out that those who are saying they have no interest in watching are somehow making it a badge of honour is ridiculous. We would have nothing to say about it at all if you stopped bugging us about it.

The Masked Singer/Dancer is also on my list of popular garbage that I can't join in on.

I get you. I just don’t enjoy reality tv or any kind and there’s so much other TV out there that I would prefer that I don’t see the point even trying it, but people either act like I’m a snob (I’m not and I have many guilty pleasures) or that I’m a complete weirdo, just because I haven’t seen the bloody Traitors.

I don’t get all offended at people who’ve never watched Twin Peaks or Buffy! We’re all different and we all like different things, why is that so hard for some people to understand?

I got bored with people telling me I had to watch Game of Thrones because I like Lord of the Rings... No, it is possible to enjoy one and not the other.

I find "council telly" quite funny but also dark, the same way I do "council pop" for the fresh, clean, guaranteed not full of shit water that comes out of our taps reliably, not for free, but for pennies compared to any other water.

It's all fun and games with netflix and co, until there's no truth any more, we will remember fondly that ol' cheap state broadcaster we used to have, with internal checks and balances and Reithian values.

Exactly this. And most people couldn’t care less if you actually watch it, they’re just trying to make conversation or alas, be inclusive.

Emily in Paris/Rome is already on Netflix. My guilty pleasure, although I can't stand Mindy!

It’s pretty underwhelming to be honest, the scenery is nice. I watched the first series where they didn’t know what was happening and the participants seemed less annoying.

I watched it once because it wasn't convenient to switch channel. I thought it was pointless. I felt the same with Big Brother 25 years ago.

What the flip is it about this programme that everyone's getting so excited about? If you watched the first episode, you'd understand the show, then could decide if you want to watch it or not.

People enjoy sharing conversations about popular TV shows, it's a connection point.

I've never watched any of these type of gameshows, I don't know how people find the time - there is so much more interesting stuff to watch on AppleTV/Disney+ etc that I wish I had time for!

But lots of people do really get into them and get excited for new series so they must strike a chord with the majority of people, so I guess OP, they assume you are also one of the sheep!