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TV programmes you MUST switch off

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TamiTayorismyparentingguru · 26/11/2018 20:56

What is it for you? What TV programmes can you not stand at all - to the point that you have to change the channel or leave the room?

For me it’s Impractical Jokers and Homes Under the Hammer. For entirely different reasons - Impractical Jokers because it irritates me to the point that I am just angry, and Homes Under the Hammer because it reminds me of when DH was ill as it was on every time we were in the hospital for bad news and now I just can’t watch it.

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thenightsky · 27/11/2018 22:58

The One Show. Just the first bars of the intro music have me leaping for the remote! Why is this still even on? I don't know anyone who watches it.

user1457017537 · 27/11/2018 23:46

I absolutely love Mrs Brown’s boys but thenbit takes me back to the people I’ve known

PodgeBod · 27/11/2018 23:50

I just remembered that we used to watch The Simpsons every day on 4 and scramble for the remote before Hollyoaks started.

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IndigoSpritz · 28/11/2018 18:15

Bring back the Test Card, preferably version 'F'. Together with the library music, it made for quality viewing and listening back in the day.

Jellybeanduck · 28/11/2018 18:31

I can’t see it mentioned, so maybe I’m in the minority- The Inbetweeners.

I hate it with a passion.

WhentheRabbitsWentWild · 28/11/2018 18:54

Loose Women
TOWIE and their type
Question of Sport
Mrs Brown's Boys
Father Ted
Keith Lemon (anything)
Strictly
X Factor
BB
CBB
Im a Celeb

There are more . Those are the main ones that grind my gears

WhentheRabbitsWentWild · 28/11/2018 18:55

@JellyBean

Me too . Forgot to mention that one .

SexNotJenga · 28/11/2018 18:56

Any Questions.
Invariably full of wankers.

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dontalltalkatonce · 28/11/2018 18:58

Friends
Big Bang Theory

Fucking awful, both of them.

Glowerglass · 28/11/2018 19:02

Soaps
Reality tv
Most sport

HowlsMovingBungalow · 28/11/2018 20:11

yup to Big Bang
Old school USA big hits that I detest ...
Simpsons
Friends
Family Guy
South Park
Sex in the city

IndigoSpritz · 28/11/2018 21:41

I've only seen a snatch of it but I imagine The Last Leg is one of those clever dick programmes I'd want to eradicate or, at least, switch off. Anyone else or am I being unfair ?

MyOtherProfile · 28/11/2018 21:54

I absolutely loved the Last Leg but it's kind of a bit samey now. Still good but maybe has run its course.

MrsJayy · 29/11/2018 20:17

We are sticking big bang out it is the last series but it is dire and they are just mean to each other

UserMe18 · 29/11/2018 20:20

Our Girl
Mrs Brown's Boys
I'm a Celeb

MrsJayy · 29/11/2018 20:21

The last leg should have stuck to being a paralympic/occasional programme it imo doesn't work as a series.

PaulHollywoodsSexGut · 29/11/2018 20:25

I absolutely loved the Last Leg but it's kind of a bit samey now. Still good but maybe has run its course

Couldn’t agree more @MyOtherProfile

For me it went south when the proper lolz: earnest hand wringing ratio went too far the other way.

Meet0nTheIedge · 29/11/2018 21:10

I agree about The Last Leg, loved it during the Paralympics but it's too much with it on every week and it has gone downhill.

KindergartenKop · 29/11/2018 22:06

The One Show. In our house you get fined for putting it on, even if you switch the TV on and it just happens to be on bbc1 at 7:05pm.

maggienolia · 29/11/2018 22:29

Doc Martin.
Grumpy doc who had a rocky relationship and saves one life per show.
It really has run its course.

Lewis, Poirot, Midsomer murders. DH watches them ad nauseum in the evening.

My 600lb life. Let's all have a good look at the very large person who gets bypass surgery in a matter of weeks.

Homes under the hammer. Let's buy a house that was previously someone's home for 40 years, paint it magnolia and beige and rent it. For a few years. Then kick out the tenant and sell it on.

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