What makes you want to turn over the TV?

[BrickPoet]

Adverts

I turn the sound down on ads and look at my phone.
Horrible cruel or unnecessary violence.
Too much shagging ( I have an imagination and don't need to see the action)
Quiz shows. except Victoria Coren Mitchell and Uni Challenge occasionally
All hospital series.
Anything with orange skinned over madeup people.
Most american progs

Fortunately I have sky so can record and fast forward when I want.

Sex scenes
Anything with drag queens
Animals or kids getting hurt
Anything gory or eyeball related
Anything with bones snapping or dislocating
Anything reality based like Towie or BB

Alan Carr.

Cricket
GB news
Anything with Jeremy Clarkson
Sycophantic royal family coverage

The fact that nearly every show now has a political agenda relentlessly pushed.
Every advert is a patronising DEI mess
Lack of any skilled writers or actors for the dross shows rolled out one after another.
Dead eyed presenters who sold their souls decades ago.
Reality tv shows aimed at ensuring room temperature IQs are mainstreamed.

Hit the nail on the head with all of these. I am actually thinking of getting rid of TV together.

Those direct cremation funerals make me angry. They are designed to make elderly people feel selfish for wanting a funeral.

Oh mum always thinking of us! We will spend the money on a cruise and throw you out with the bins!

I hear ya. I’m thinking the same.
Even streaming is awful now too. I can’t be arsed watching anything made after 2020 as I know it will be terribly written or agenda riddled.

I caught about five minutes of Rick stein cooking in Cornwall the other week n almost immediately it started banging on about the slave trade in Bristol…just cook the fish Rick ffs.

😂 they’re awful aren’t they

Light entertainment, reality shows, soaps, biased commentary on the news, talent shows, property porn, makeover shows, quite a lot really !

candgen625 · Today 11:33
Those direct cremation funerals make me angry. They are designed to make elderly people feel selfish for wanting a funeral.
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Oh mum always thinking of us! We will spend the money on a cruise and throw you out with the bins!”

I’m quite old. I want a direct cremation. Each to their own.

Lorraine Kelly
Owen Jones
Phone ins. They are usually told to turn the telly down in the background and then um and ah as they stutter over what to say. Turns my toes inside out.

Vanessa Feltz

I dislike the way they're sold, though. No problem if they offer a product that some people might want, but I think they invent unrealistic scenarios and give out a message that you're 'doing the right thing' rather than doing what you have actively chosen for yourself.

It's also a bit odd, imho, as your funeral isn't actually for you: you're deciding whether/how your loved ones want to memorialise you, which may not be what they wanted at all, if you don't discuss things.

I've also noticed that at least one of them has started acknowledging that some people will want a service/gathering, and is suggesting that you save money by having a direct cremation instead of a funeral, but then spend the money you saved on something that many people would consider to be something suspiciously funeral-like!

Adverts where people trying to sell a product speak so badly they are murdering the English language. “Mewls” instead of ‘meals’ and Fearne Cotton on her Tesco Mobile ads.

Having one is fine. I just don't like the adverts. They are designed to guilt elderly people into thinking they are selfish if they don't want one

I noticed last night that the Pot Noodle ad has taken out the awful slurping sounds. 👍

The new ad for some company selling pillows and not much else. It says something like ‘if your pillow is five minutes old it will be full of nasties’ - yeah, yeah you want to sell them

If only we lived in a world where we could choose one of many things to watch.

Yep. Apparently amid all the weird and wonderful things we see on TV, that’s a step too far for them.

Honestly It would almost be better if they just came out and said “I don’t want to see Black / queer / disabled people on TV”. At least it would be less disingenuous.

Anyway, as to OP’s question – I don’t watch enough live TV to really be able to answer — anything I watch tends to be something I’ve sought out on a streaming service – but I listen to a lot of radio and as soon as there’s a public phone in I have to turn off. What happened to listening to experts? Why should I care what Joe Bloggs from Kent thinks?

@Thatsthewayitisnt "No the tick box manner in which it’s done . It’s so clearly done on a percentage basis. It doesn’t ring true and is just irritating."

I really don't understand.

Loud adverts. Football. Anything boring really.

Anything with Paddy McGuinness in and his accent, which I will always believe is exaggerated. He ruined Top Gear and the travesty that was A Question of Sport.
Ant & Dec who have long had their day.
Every stupid advert, particularly the patronising ones.
Football on three terrestrial channels for three hours at a time.
Shouty quiz shows.
Michael McIntyre
Gratuitous violence
Reality shows full of botoxed, filled and perma tanned people who struggle to communicate effectively.

You've made me think of another one: Alan Sugar's obsession with female pigs on The Apprentice.

The teams have been sent out to make as many sales as possible, but all he seems to randomly care about is numbers of sows!

Just for starters (apart from the news at the moment),
Anything with Ant and Dec, or Lorraine Kelly, or Laurence Fox, or that ‘large’ black SHOUTY! Brummie woman whose name I don’t recall.