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Hell will consist of back to back Antiques Road Trip

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StiffyByngsDogBartholomew · 07/10/2024 16:02

And news, news, news, news

honestly ART, what an utterly drivel filled programme it is, people buying crap with the unfunniest narrator. My dad loves it. I dread being at their house at the appropriate time, as I am today.

it's even worse than Bargain Hunt and I can't stick that either.

either antiques or Doom Laden News from the Middle East

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EmotionalBlackmail · 07/10/2024 17:25

I hate the endless descriptions of this stuff! Mine even complained that I'd rung her when she was watching them. Then moaned that I didn't ring her often enough!

Bearing in mind I've got a FT job and a child with activities on I was phoning at the only times I was available. But clearly job, grandchild and everything else are a lower priority than some stuff on TV that can be watched at any time.

Zippea · 07/10/2024 17:12

Oh my parents have a number of tv shows that I consider the 7th circle of hell. They are Antiques Road Show, Bargain Hunt, Money for Nothing etc. Anything antique or upcycling and they love it

I love Countdown but Dad hates watching it with me because I beat him all the time.

They strangely got into My 600lb Life - they loved Dr Now and really wanted the participants to lose the weight.

I have got them watching the Big Bang Theory which they love - Young Sheldon is next

Neves7 · 07/10/2024 17:12

😂my son and his girlfriend (both mid twenties) love it!

Longleggedblond · 07/10/2024 17:11

Repair shop and any programme re scamming. kill me now.

menopausalmare · 07/10/2024 17:10

My mum was obsessed with the farming woman and her million children. So much sodding details. I was quite relieved when the shepherdess woman divorced her husband and mum's running commentary of her antics stopped.

MeowCatPleaseMeowBack · 07/10/2024 17:02

I watch it with my elderly mum and we love it. We never get tired of laughing at the ugly crap and their faces when it sells for £50 less than they paid.

We've promised one day we're going to go to an antiques shop and see who can buy the most hideous object for £30.

Her neverending love for Judge fucking Judy, however, is another question.

Diversion · 07/10/2024 17:02

My Dad comes for tea twice a week and commandeers the remote. We mostly get to watch very old western films, often in black and white and interrupted by lots of moaning about the government.

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StiffyByngsDogBartholomew · 07/10/2024 17:00

SleepingisanArt · 07/10/2024 16:15

Just wait until you get a frame by frame account of every episode of Police Interceptors! I don't live close (thankfully) but have to listen to a full account whenever I phone (and yes I phone him he never bothers to phone me but will gladly tell me how he has nobody to talk to.....)

I do
my husband was a police officer and I am a radio operator
you can imagine how I love dad regaling tales from it...

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Godesstobe · 07/10/2024 16:35

I feel your pain, but I raise you Midsummer Murders (which my very elderly mother watches on repeat).

PortiasBiscuit · 07/10/2024 16:18

I love it, absolutely mindless TV on just when I need something mindless.
Even if I hated it, I cant imagine it would ever be worth such vitriol though, equating it with news from the ME seems a wee bit steep.

SleepingisanArt · 07/10/2024 16:15

Just wait until you get a frame by frame account of every episode of Police Interceptors! I don't live close (thankfully) but have to listen to a full account whenever I phone (and yes I phone him he never bothers to phone me but will gladly tell me how he has nobody to talk to.....)

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