Hell will consist of back to back Antiques Road Trip

Now I love 4 in a bed. And Dinner Dates. Pure class.

I was off sick from work for a long spell once and I somehow watched an Antiques show where there was a red team and a blue team. They went round a car boot sale with £100 or something for an hour, bought stuff, and then put it up for auction somewhere else later. Iirc the winning team and their pundit absolutely wet themselves with excitement because they made a profit of £20!

I was seriously like WTF? I was worried my co-codamol was playing mind games with me.

I raise you 4 In A Bed.

How about re-runs of Bullseye on Challenge TV? Not super, not smashing, not great

There is something else similar as well, where someone brings in a bit of junk and 3 people are sat in a room and bid on it, he likes that as well.

DH loves antiques road trip and bargain hut, I can't bear anything like that, followed up by pointless

It sounds better than my DDad - he watches anything with Jeremy Clarkson in. Of which there is a surprising amount, covering a surprising number of years. If we phone him up we hear it in the background even. I don't actually mind a bit of classic Top Gear on occasion but it is wearing a bit thin now. Although it has now become a bit of a family in-joke - when saying goodbye on leaving his place we now often say 'And on that bombshell.....time to go' and the kids throw in an occasional 'meanwhile' at random times.

He also occasionally watches the old Morse episodes as well, although not so frequently. Thankfully both are still better than actual current daytime TV.

Oh you've reminded me of my MIL and her love of watching Judge Judy. Whenever she came to stay,we'd have to watch it over and over,while she gave a running commentary of what she thought of the protagonists. That and soaps,and Only Fools and Horses on repeat. We don't watch TV so it was a revelation.

Recently passed DFIL had Last Of The Summer Wine on an endless loop. I don't think MIL has put the TV on since he died - she just sits there in blissful peace.

I suspect my future may involve Vintage Telly on a loop, with a particular focus on old WW2 stuff and "comedy" that comes with the warning that "this programme reflects the values at the time it was made." This may reduce someone's lifespan.

I feel your pain. I actually felt depressed having to watch the daytime TV channels I had to endure during the years I took my turn helping care for my dad. My mother would always rejoice in how much she loved them and try and get me to join in the 'enthuse'. She also loves mind numbing daytime quiz shows and Strictly. I abhor all daytime TV, no matter which channel and I detest Strictly.
I loved my dad dearly before he died and would have watched anything that made him happy as he was often unable to communicate by that point and drifting in and out of lucidity and/or sleep.
This whole scenario is so awful, but dare I say it, my kids will probably say the same about me if ever I'm that age 🤔.

She gets particularly animated about the ignorance of contestants on the classical music round. However, I seriously impressed her once when the music round was on hip-hop and I got all the answers right. She, of course, was utterly mystified and said 'Well fancy you knowing all those' at the end

I see you bargain hunt, Antiques Roadshow and raise you Casualty and The Bill..thank God I go to work! DH forgets to change channel and that there is more than 1 channel

I think I'm your mother, apologies 😁

Oh my DM used to love Bargain Hunt (which I thought was dire!), but in recent years she's taken to quiz shows, which have to be on very loudly while eating dinner. She likes to face the TV and shout out the answers when she knows them and berate the contestants when they don't.

The whole proviso of Bargain Hunt really annoys me. Dealers buy at auction, not the other way round.Try getting the massive discounts they do without gigglers in silly fleeces who know as much about antiques as I do about the workings of the Large Hadron Collider and, crucially, a film crew on hand, your face would be laughed in.

It is on DHs list of daily shows, unfortunately.

@Godesstobe , my mum is a midsummer murders fan as well !

Ah I hadn't realised that.

Antiques Roadshow is quite different from Antiques Road Trip.

Aw, I used to like watching Antiques Roadshow at my granddad's house. The only downside was that it meant the weekend was nearly over, whereas Gardners' World meant it was just beginning.

@StiffyByngsDogBartholomew On behalf of everyone I am so so sorry! My DH was a GP and will leave the room if people talk about Holby City, Doctors (where are all the patients and how do they have so much time for each patient?) or anything else which is nothing like being a real medic. You must be the same with all police dramas!

I have just returned from an hour with DM watching Doctors followed by Money for Nothing. I don’t mind it to be honest, it gives us something to chat about (who on earth pays £500 for an old sideboard with bits of wallpaper stuck to it?).

I miss watching Countdown with my Dad.

The OP isn't equating them, she's saying they are the only things her parents watch.

One or the other is always on; not one is like the other.

I miss watching these sorts of programmes with my parents 🙁

My parents managed to get the DC into it last time we were there