Hell will consist of back to back Antiques Road Trip

At least they will be less likely to fall for scams after watching all that.

I occasionally make my husband watch these shows so we are up to date with the latest scams as we get old and doddery but they do seem to be very repetitive.

My parents absolutely love Tim Wonnacott (does he still do it?). He strikes me as a pompous ass with his stupid clothes.

I think they've forgotten about BH and the rest now fortunately.

My dm still keeps going on about people wearing hoodies and thinks anyone who wears one is going to commit a crime. Idk why she's so obsessed. My dm used to work with young working class people and very sympathetic to the younger generation in general. So why hoodies are so terrible I've no clue.

From my extensive viewing of MM with my mother I am able say that Midsomer is not set in a small town but in a collection of villages. (Murder rate is still high though.)

Yup. Sometimes when I visit my granny she stops me talking so she can hear what tat sold for on BH. 🤦

Brookside Close always seemed a pretty dangerous place to live - getting shot, electrocuted, being stabbed, car crashes, pushed off scaffolding, poisoning, explosions, fires etc.

Slightly off topic, and of course it is fiction at the end of the day, but I do wonder to myself who the hell would want to live in Midsomer? It seems to have a very disproportionately high number of murders for what looks to be a fairly small town! 🤣

I suppose you could say the same for Denton, Inspector Frost's stomping ground. 🤠

I think DH has watched every episode of Wheeler Dealers and Police Interceptors.

I think I prefer watching the tip programme with DM than the continuous repeats of Deadliest Catch, Opal Hunters and Ice Road Truckers favoured by DH.

Best of all I like silence these days.

I feel this is true. In quite a benign way, perhaps because I’ve actually never seen an episode of MM. The idea of Tipping Point continuing beyond the end of the world is far more depressing.

My deaf DM loves all the political programmes, so if I’m staying over I get various editions of the news, Question Time, Newsnight etc at full blast, interspersed with her own opinions that makes Ghengis Khan look like a liberal snowflake. I escape upstairs but can still hear every word - thank god for noise cancelling headphones.

At least she hasn’t discovered GB News.

where a woman would pounce on people at the tip and take their junk away to renovate She’d grab a bit of lovely wood furniture, and you’d think “a bit of cleaning and a minor repair to the veneer and that would be beautiful”. And they’d strip it down and paint sunflowers on it.

Although Keir Starmer is getting royally on my tits by proxy at the moment Just keep reciting to yourself “Boris Johnson … Liz Truss…. Kemi Badenoch….”

I talk to my DF about four times a day, and our conversation is often a running commentary on the news which he has on in the background so I'm an expert on the Middle East and Keir Starmer, both of which are sources of incredulous irritation for him. He's 85 on Sunday, and a nuclear test veteran, so there's that as well. And Oak Island, and anything UFO related. To be fair, I've inherited his love of anything a bit fringe so we do have some great debates - fortunately he's still the full shilling bar typical repetition, and I've been throwing in Lucy Letby to keep it fresh.

DMIL when she still lived with us was all Tipping Point and that programme where a woman would pounce on people at the tip and take their junk away to renovate and sell - and then the original owner would awkwardly accept the profit and mumble about "charidee"..... kind of miss that.

My late Nana had TV scheduling down to a fine art, skipping channels between soaps, news, Panorama and Newsnight back when we only had 3 then 4 channels. I fought for TOTP every week as a teenager ( we lived with her). Ah, happy days...

Although Keir Starmer is getting royally on my tits by proxy at the moment.....

I will take your antiques road trip and swap it for Judge Judy and GB news on a loop.

If you can, yes of course. In the rural north, you’re limited in that regard!

Vera anyone, with the lovely Brenda Blethyn who lives near my mum? Or All Creatures Great and Small?

I love antiques road trip.. it's mindless tv to switch off to after a long day at work. I usually nod off. And I like the day trips they go on

Flog it on the other hand. Paul Martin is soo condescending to everyone and thinks he knows best. Then he went on House of Games and did dreadfully and even on the history rounds

I think @Topseyt123 has it right. My mother will be 95 next month. She used to be incredibly active - cooking, gardening, hearing children read at the village school, etc, but she is pretty much confined to an armchair these days because of a bad back and hands crippled by arthritis. She was also very intelligent and whipped through a cryptic crossword every morning before breakfast but she struggles now and there is no doubt her brain has slowed down.

She is very fortunate in that she still plays bridge every week, and still goes to coffee mornings and her ladies' luncheon club and has family living nearby and really great neighbours, but she does struggle to fill her time now and these programmes help fill that gap. Plus she can guarantee that there will be no swearing or full frontal sex.

Midsummer Murders will still be on when humankind has blown itself up and only lizards remain to watch it.

I don't know what life will be like after DH dies (end of life brain tumour) - but I know there will be alot less television!

Currently watching Australian MasterChef - and I swear there is no end to it!

that reminds me that i need to get some discreet ear plugs for my next visit. Mum has tinnitus which doesn't help.

The volume issue always reminds me of this ad (maxell tapes for those of that vintage and technology!)

aw my mum loves it and i don't see her often so we watch together. She also loves (I mean REALLY LOVES) Richard Osman's House of Games. So we watch that too.

I will probably miss it all when she's no longer with us.

When we visit PiLs the TV is blaring at an enormous volume. He has hearing aids but won't wear them "In case anyone sees them" FFS he's 91 and they never go out so goodness knows who these judgemental people are.

It's one long borefest of him droning on giving his opinion of world affairs etc. Thankfully we don't visit often as they're far away. I do wonder if we're going to end up like this one day shudders