Programmes that have aged poorly and programmes that have aged well?

I agree. It's still bloody funny and the 'over the top ' scene from Blackadder Goes Forth never stops being utterly devastating 😢

Dinner ladies is also my comfort watch. And the Work Outing scene from the IT Crowd is possibly the funniest episode of any TV comedy ever!

Has anyone mentioned the Crystal Maze? The original Richard O’Brien episodes have quite a following on YouTube, with comments such as “lol the 90s hairstyles “, which made people look older then. I think they were much better than the Richard Ayoade remake.

I always think Blackadder has aged incredibly well.

I know it’s all set in the past but the tone, humour etc still works today and almost never feels jarring or dated.

I've been binge watching ER while spend five days on the sofa with a virus.

I think it's aged really well but the poor babies screaming hysterically while being examined or having a pretend lumbar puncture. I know they won't have been hurting thm but is it ok to use babies/toddlers like that? I kept thinking why is their parent not stepping in and picking up their baby.

My experience is of UK drama and Equity regulations

I’m Sorry Prime Minister on stage is worth seeing. It’s the final act in the lives of Sir H and the PM and it’s funny and touching.

Nigel Hawthorne as Sir Humphrey Appleby is up there with any of TV and movie history's most brilliant pieces of casting. They don't write comedy like they used to, sadly.

Just watching an episode, baby is screaming, face screwed up, baby thrashing from side to side. As the mother of four and grandmother of eight I diagnose this young baby as severely distressed.

It's unimaginable that 'Queer as Folk' would be broadcast today. With the 'Stuart' character being portrayed sympathetically, anyway.

My nephew was an actor baby, he was taken off set when the action wasn't focused on him and it was two people screaming at each other. This was so he didn't react to the screaming and ruin the shot. Any baby crying etc was added afterwards. He was also very limited in the length of time he could work each day so they cut the time he was on set to the bare essential.

If you watch carefully if it’s a real baby it’s a soundtrack- the baby is fine.

i remember watching a programme on how they do the “effects”, blood and bodily fluids, babies etc. was quite cutting edge at the time.

One small point that I find interesting is that a disproportionately high amount of these 'reality'/exploitative/shaming people programmes are/were on Channel 4.

Channel 4 was originally promoted with its raison d'etre to be a more highbrow, ethical, intelligent, thinking-person's channel - maybe a kind of earlier forerunner to BBC4; yet it was also the vanguard of so many of these trashy shows as well. Eurotrash even made it blatantly obvious in its very name!

Channel 4, under Michael Grade, also brought us the 'Red Light Zone' season. The modern porn-riddled internet age makes it look retrospectively tame; but at the time, it was deliberately intended to culturally subvert with a deeply unpleasant agenda to appeal to the lowest common denominator.

If you watch carefully if it’s a real baby it’s a soundtrack- the baby is fine.

i remember watching a programme on how they do the “effects”, blood and bodily fluids, babies etc. was quite cutting edge at the time.

Almost all the time, there isn't a baby present, it's a dummy.

Annoying git Gillian Mckeith

I also detest it when programmes show people shouting, screaming and swearing at each other whilst there's a baby present. The adults know that they're just acting and can sit down together for a coffee and a friendly chat once the scene is in the can; but as far as the baby knows, this IS reality.

I also detest it when programmes show people shouting, screaming and swearing at each other whilst there's a baby present. The adults know that they're just acting and can sit down together for a coffee and a friendly chat once the scene is in the can; but as far as the baby knows, this IS reality.

One small point that I find interesting is that a disproportionately high amount of these 'reality'/exploitative/shaming people programmes are/were on Channel 4.

Channel 4 was originally promoted with its raison d'etre to be a more highbrow, ethical, intelligent, thinking-person's channel - maybe a kind of earlier forerunner to BBC4; yet it was also the vanguard of so many of these trashy shows as well. Eurotrash even made it blatantly obvious in its very name!

Channel 4, under Michael Grade, also brought us the 'Red Light Zone' season. The modern porn-riddled internet age makes it look retrospectively tame; but at the time, it was deliberately intended to culturally subvert with a deeply unpleasant agenda to appeal to the lowest common denominator.

I've been binge watching ER while spend five days on the sofa with a virus.

I think it's aged really well but the poor babies screaming hysterically while being examined or having a pretend lumbar puncture. I know they won't have been hurting thm but is it ok to use babies/toddlers like that? I kept thinking why is their parent not stepping in and picking up their baby.