Hell will consist of back to back Antiques Road Trip

I detest antiques roadshow, bargain hunt, bake off, strictly, all the soaps etc. Despite being in my 60s and therefore regarded by some of you lot as Elderly Parent age 😁 My dd however, in her 20s, LOVES antiques road show and the baking/sewing/potterying crap.

Fortunately being an older person doesn’t automatically cause you to choose crappy TV! And I think for dd it’s a stress reliever, a temporary escape into another world where people get very serious about meringues.

My mum phoned me up once to tell me that a man had died.
I felt so sorry for her as I thought he must be someone she knew quite well.
Turned out he was an antique expert from Bargain Hunt.

These shows are good, relaxing company for people who have a lot of time on their hands and perhaps time alone too.

I reckon on Gransnet there will be many threads about young people who only want to talk to their elderly parents about Big Brother and Love Island.

Antiques Road Trip, Bargain Hunt, Flog It, Money for Nothing, Yorkshire Auction House, Salvage Hunters and similar stuff are all now favourites of my elderly and fairly immobile mother. When I am visiting I do watch some of them with her and I know I'll miss that when she's no longer there.

I can't moan about it really. My mother can no longer fill her days herself because of health issues, can't drive because of very badly deteriorated eyesight, can't read (which she used to love) for the same reason, can't walk far except for shuffling around her house and can only go out when either my sister or I are with her and can manage her wheelchair.

So I can't begrudge her these programmes. My mother herself might well have scoffed at them years ago, but now they help entertain her through endless days with nothing else happening.

😂 We used to shout, in response to:

'Dad, it's June."

"...and the day is... that's right, Tuesday... and the Prime Minister is... come on Dad, you know this...".

That, of course, is a question to be asked in advance of the care home. Is there a non TV lounge they can use/ can they stay in their room, or are they “encouraged” to stay in the TV lounge

Antiques Road Trip is great!

My parents got a full 5-speaker & sound bar system for their TV and had bass boost set to max. Then complained that you can't hear the dialogue on TV programmes nowadays because they add that awful loud rumbling noise to everything.

No ones mentioned that you are being subjected to these programmes at deafening volume levels.

I am separated rather than divorced but if I ever get around to it and have to put a reason it will be TV watching!
I now have one of those Art TVs which sits there quietly with some lovely art on display and don’t have to put up with constant loud drivel in my home.

Sorry to add to your pain, but I saw a trailer last night and it is coming back.

Is your mum still alive? Because they're back with a new series in Channel 4. It's possibly called The Farm Next Door, and is about them all doing up... the farm next door.

It is definitely better than my mum's beloved Tipping Point. ooh, a good bit of lateral there I hope Ben Shepherd gets paid well for that drivel.

Dad used to do the afternoon quizzes and countdown (as well as the crossword in the paper) as he always said you have to keep the brain active. Even after he had his strokes, bless him.

Mum has retreated to Talking Pictures tv in her dementia and won’t watch any other channel. They have some cracking films on I must admit, as well as old tv programmes from the 60s and 70s. I often find myself watching, I do like a classic b&w film.

DH reckons BH and Homes under the Hammer will be his reward in retirement as he loves how crap the programmes are. I refuse to watch but somehow get sucked in if they are on, hate them.

My dad was once on Celebrity Antiques Road Trip (not as a celebrity I'm hasten to add 🤣)

After years of Antiques Roadshow brainwashing, I actually quite like it now. Can't get on board with the 6 o'clock news though.

I'd be grateful for any of those. My dad's faves are Judge Judy (ENDLESS reruns) and wrestling.

I raise you Going For A Song with Michael Parkinson. Though I have a soft spot for it as a relative of mine was the guy who brought the antiques out every show.

Oh, dear. We recently got back from our nightly visit to make sure FIL has everything he needs before bed. He's in a kind of assessment phase for care needs and there's a blank space where the evening call should be. So he sits happy as a sandboy watching TV quizzes while DH and I run around sorting out laundry, refreshments, bins, commode etc. It drives DH bloody mad, not that we'd get much in the way of conversation anyway.
I don't mind. I quite like a quiz, and it makes a change from darts and snooker, which is the other option. It used to be wall to wall antiques roadshows and challenges when MIL was alive.

Try watching U & Drama in an afternoon, every advert is for either over 50's plans or Distinct Funerals & Pure Cremations, we call it the death hours.

In the days when Emmerdale was Emmerdale farm,my gran used to ask us every week if we watched it,"because you are farmers". As my mum hated soaps,we never watched it,but I'm sure that it had as much to with with farming,as I do with quantum physics.
I was once asked to go on one of those daytime antique programmes. I don't know which one it was,as I don't watch TV,and said no thank you,as I've no desire to be on TV in any way,shape or form.

When my brother was diagnosed with a brain tumour years ago, he apparently turned to another family member and said "Well, if I've only got two weeks, put Homes Under the Hammer on". I still laugh fondly about that whenever I see it. (He'd been a very skilled carpenter and builder, and doing up wrecks was His Thing.)

Mind you I'm currently sitting playing on my phone while DS watches a YouTube of a man jet washing a drive so...

I love watching Antiques Road Trip with my DH if we ever have the chance (about once a year) - I love all the weird and wonderful places they visit to see peoples collections of stuff.

Sadly, my ILs think it is ‘silly’ (we have tried to explain that it is supposed to be light-hearted, humorous, etc but to no avail) but watch Antiques Roadshow, which I hate. They are always watching programmes about history and can never tell you ANYTHING about what happened in the programme!

Conversely, my Mum never, ever watched any of this stuff. Once she was too far gone with dementia and in a care home, she and the other residents were plonked in a circle and forced to watch this stuff all bloody day, whether they liked it or not. It made me very sad…

Ha ha. They don't make a "profit" though do they? On most of these shows, at any rate, there is no allowance made for auction fees, or transport, or time taken to buy and sell things. A "profit" of £20 in buying vs selling might actually be a loss, even if you don't account for your time.

My mum was a great one for saying, "You could sell that blah-blah of mine for me, they go for £50 at auctions." (according to Bargain Hunt or something). Hmm, given that I'd be visiting her by train, and the blah-blah was too big to carry, and I didn't want to spend my weekend visit at auctions or car boot sales anyway, that would be a no.

Another favourite - "You could sell that for me on ebay." So I look on ebay, find several listed for £1.99 and don't bother.

I have one answer to all of these:

Tipping Point

Mind, once when I went in, someone had left dad’s tv on a shopping channel. I retaliated by leaving it on BBC Radio 3.

As someone described it “buy retail, sell wholesale”

I saw a bit of this the other day for the first time. Someone had paid £60 for a giant, ugly floodlight, and then resold it for £40. How on earth did they manage to resell the hideous thing at all? I didn't watch much more after that!