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What is the worst programme on TV?

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ChicChicChicChiclana · 24/01/2020 13:12

I am off work at the moment and have seen some daytime TV.

I hereby declare that Loose Women is the most unwatchable drivel I've ever tried to endure, ever ever! I can tolerate Naked Attraction and Love Island so have a high pain threshold. But Loose Women - just NO!!!

Which TV programme makes you want to switch off in a hurry?

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Swisskit · 24/01/2020 23:16

Good Morning Britain
That new Yorkshire Walks programme.

whydoihavetogothroughsomuch · 24/01/2020 23:18

Love is island
Naked attraction

CooCooCoo · 24/01/2020 23:23

Eastenders and Love Island

I read somewhere that they are thinking of bringing back Little Britain
The general public can’t handle that kind of thing these days, it would be canned so fast

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Deadringer · 24/01/2020 23:24

I don't get mrs Browne's boys at all. I mean if it was a woman in the lead role, would people still find it funny? Or do people find a man dressed as a woman so hilarious that the actual content of the show doesn't matter? Genuinely don't get it.

ClinkyMonkey · 24/01/2020 23:27

Love Island
Songs of Praise
I'm a Nonentity....
That awful dating show with whatsisface - nope, can't remember. Paddy someone? Is that still on? It's a pile of shite.

WarmSausageTea · 24/01/2020 23:30

The Masked Singer
Naked Attraction
Homes Under The Hammer
Wanted Down Under (but I like Nicki Chapman)
Tenable

lebiscuit · 24/01/2020 23:40

I can't stand the soaps -Eastenders, coronation st, holly oaks etc.

Day time tv - if I'm off work and put it on I can almost feel my brain turning to mush.

Dated, shite "comedies" like Miranda and Mrs Browns Boys (who watches it? I've never heard of or met anyone who admits to liking it)

Things like X factor/bgt

"Celebrity" things like I'm a celeb or strictly.

The Big Bang Theory and its shitty spin off

All those real housewives of..../kardashians shows.

Love island and co

This has made me realise that most terrestrial TV these days is absolute bollocks.

FrancesFlute · 24/01/2020 23:50

Mrs Brown's Boys. Just do not get it.
Gogglebox. So boring.

MsPepperPotts · 24/01/2020 23:51

Soaps
Reality tv
Daytime tv
Too much to list and agree it's absolute rubbish
Haven't watched terrestrial tv in years

user764329056 · 24/01/2020 23:58

So much trash on TV now, hardly any genuinely interesting programmes, a depressing sign of the times we live in where reality TV wannabes are revered and aspired to

WendyMoiraAngelaDarling · 25/01/2020 00:11

I had a friend who would periodically post things like "Mrs Browns Boys 😂 best thing on TV, Fact!"

I had to delete her in the end. It was clear we had absolutely nothing in common.

SomeLikeItTepid · 25/01/2020 00:17

I do not understand the comedic attraction to Mrs Brown's Boys at all.
Loose Women is the worst. I've never seen such a haggle of men-hating faux feminists before. Bleuuurgh.

SomeLikeItTepid · 25/01/2020 00:19

The 'date me because you like the look of my visible genitals' channel 4 tosh is also gross.

Willow2017 · 25/01/2020 00:20

Any soaps anyone with an once of sense would leave those places at thd first oppertunity! Multiple murders, screaming at each other in the street, drunks, manipulative relative's, cheating spouses, major disasters on epic scale every few years!
Any reality tv which is as far removed from.reality as possible as its all scripted.
Any 'shock' ones like naked attraction. Extreme medical programmes just for ick factor.
Real housewives/famous people's lives crap.
Talent shows
Dating shows

It would be quicker to say what's good on tv!

ImNotACuntYoureACunt · 25/01/2020 00:24

Mrs Browns boys. Had to endure it one Christmas Day night a few years back and everyone else was pissing themselves while I was Confused Hmm

Loose Women is fucking dreadful and I hate the title almost as much as the pointless people on the panel.

All of those tv shows on channel 5 about people on benefits of any kind as it’s basically an invitation to watch and judge others in a needlessly harsh way. It also means the ignorant people watching assume everyone on any kind of benefit are all useless scroungers.

Glad Jeremy Kyle has gone. Human bear baiting although I used to watch it sometimes Blush I don’t know if he got more aggressive over time or my threshold got lower.

WingingItSince1973 · 25/01/2020 00:42

Every soap
Every reality show
Mrs Browns Boys
Lorraine!!!!! Why is she on prime tv?
Loose Women
Talent shows

Freyanna · 25/01/2020 01:00

Mrs Brown's Boys is truly dreadful.

I don't watch much TV now.

FordPrefect42 · 25/01/2020 01:52

Extreme medical programmes just for ick factor.

Aw, I hope you’re not talking about Silent Witness there? That’s actually my favourite programme at the moment (besides University Challenge).

It’s not all ick factor - the recent domestic violence episode was particularly good. But I digress, this thread is for discussing programmes we don’t like Wink

Itstheprinciple · 25/01/2020 07:23

Love Island. I actually don't know how it's allowed to be made. Everything about it is just so wrong. I'm no prude but I judge that and I judge it hard.

Almost as bad is Take Me Out. Basically anything where people pair up based on appearance is not my thing.

ClinkyMonkey · 25/01/2020 09:21

Agree wholeheartedly with ImNotACunt re all those Channel 5 shows about people on benefits. I hate all that nasty schadenfreude. It's the documentary equivalent of the Jeremy Kyle show.

Moondancer73 · 25/01/2020 09:49

Just tattoo of us - how on earth do people watch that?!

AmazingGreats · 25/01/2020 09:52

@ImNotACuntYoureACunt

I wonder the same thing about the Jeremy Kyle show, but I think he ultimately became a parody of himself. I think society changed, and I got better educated, as well, but I also think he got worse and the contestants got worse because the longer it went on the more they knew what to expect.

ballsdeep · 25/01/2020 10:07

The masked singer
Loose women

Ellmau · 25/01/2020 12:29

Naked Attraction, definitely, followed by Love Island. I literally couldn't believe NA when I accidentally turned it on.

Violetroselily · 25/01/2020 12:40

Mrs Browns Boys