What makes you want to turn over the TV?

[BrickPoet]

Adverts

Oh God yes orange turkey teeth people micro analysing eff all.

"Babe, him checkin his phone at breakfast was just so disrespec'ful. That should be a special time."
"I know. I'm so gutted. Like, if he's on his phone at breakfast, is it, like, he doesn't even love me and the day's not even started? Like where does that leave us?"
"Zackly. You're calling it, babe."
"I'm not sure we should be together any more."
"You wanna have that out with him, babe. Don't hold it in."

I want to scream.

David Attenborough's droning voice.

Adverts.

Drag queens.

Cookery contests. Just why. We can't taste any of it FFS.

Richard Osman.

Lorraine.

She’s so smug and self righteous.

It's not always that straightforward, though.

It's easy enough, if you hate a particular kind of programme to just not watch them - but when it's adverts that pop in the middle of something that you do want to watch, or say you generally like The One Show or Jonathan Ross, but they suddenly introduce an extremely irritating guest - especially if you do really like their other guests! Same with panellists on news/current affairs shows.

I mute or turn over -

Any kind of drag, in any form.

The films and programmes that seem to have now taken up using that awful high pitched whistle as some sort of peril warning/approaching danger or leading to the climax of a scene. It's absolutely awful, irritating and I don't know why they've started doing it.

The Big Bang Theory, it's not even mildly amusing.

Programmes where presenters are just having a paid for holiday, without imparting much information about the places they're visiting. Even more irritating when they drag their family along.

Property/house shows.

The One Show.

Anything with Henry Cole in it. I used to quite like him, until he started adding "man" to the end of every sentence and saying "ahem" and clearing his throat at every opportunity. Gives me the rage now!

Breakfast on ITV, it comes across as amateur and I can take it seriously.

Saturday Kitchen.

Those are only a small selection!!!

Has anyone noticed lately, that a lot of presenters/actors/weather people are slurping or gulping a lot during their dialogue? I pointed it out to my DH the other day and he said he hadn't noticed. And then he did! Then he was pointing it out to me! It's bizarre!

That hideous erectile disfunction ad that looks like a plastic Action Man waltzing off to the bedroom after Sindy grabs his bum, taking his shirt off on the way. Numan is the company. Hideous!🤢

Also ads for pee pants with those two idiot women, and any ads for diarrhea as it appears only women have incontinence or digestive issues. 😠

Instant mute, change channel or switch off.

You know, I thought I was an outrageous snob (aside: I am) until I read this thread!

Jeremy Clarkson
Gary Linekar

I know he’s helped loads of people, talks a lot of sense etc,and I’m sure he’s a lovely guy but Martyn Lewis. Irritates the shite out of me.
Historical programmes using anachronistic music. It was amusing when used at first, but now it’s not.
Dr Who. Used to love it. Declined after Matt Smith(and I really wanted to like Capaldi and Whittaker.)Now it’s just a preachy, noisy mess.

Anything with gino di campo/gordon Ramsey or any of those other twats travelling round being dickheads.

Sunak
Starmer
BBC propaganda
Snooker
Drag Queens

Haven't watched in years. Parents and in-laws put it on and wander off... It's so bad. Just turn the bloody thing off, there's nothing on. It takes a lot to get me to sit down and watch something these days. Even if it's good I have to be darning a sock or something! I was always guilty of standing in doorways and watching a bit of something and then wandering off when I was younger. Got accused of 'haunting' a lot.

Cancer and funeral adverts. I'm living it, I don't need adverts!

This Morning and Loose Women. Absolute worst load of dog shit TV I’ve ever seen, I despise both them TV shows.

Dogs barking in the soundscape! It sets our dog off as he thinks they are in the house. We can tell if our neighbours are watching the same thing as us as theirs starts as well! 😂 It seems to also be a thing to have dog barking sounds in radio ads at the moment and it drives me mad!

No, @GKD I mean performative diversity on screen that has no bearing on reality. It has the effect of lulling the viewer into the belief that there are equal rights, access to the workplace and acceptance for everyone. This is definitely not the case.

Bloody adverts featuring people who are obviously actors pretending to be real people advertising for example life insurance or funerals. They must think the audience is stupid

I have to say that the Scottish Widows ads always crack me up.

Clearly they’re stuck with a brand name that has longevity, recognisability and credibility, so they can’t change it, and equally, they’re stuck with the recognisable image of the woman in a black widow’s cloak, because that’s the brand icon — but god, they go to hilarious lengths to try to distance themselves from their origins (fund to support destitute Scottish widows after breadwinners died in Napoleonic wars) any connotations of death, mourning, destitution, or that the Woman in the Cloak is in mourning.

She’s, especially in slightly older tv ads, presented as a sexy, sexy creature (lingering close ups of stockinged legs in stilettos, diamonds glitzy dresses) who inexplicably throws on a cloak at the end of the ad (even in the ad about the fund’s 200th birthday, where the scenario is that it’s a 200th birthday party for the Scottish Widow, she’s a 20 something!), or as an extremely pretty, smiley woman in a black cloak (which now has a bright red lining and is shorter) wandering inexplicably through people’s lives…

I'm quite old too and would much prefer my family spent what money they've got on a cruise etc than a fancy funeral. I've been to too many in my time and I hate them.

They're laughable, aren't they?!

The original 'It's June, Dad' ones, with the letters that were delivered by mistake to next door are risible. If a neighbour brought over a mis-delivered letter, you'd just thank them and wish them a good day; you wouldn't start telling them all about some policy that it related to, before rambling about leftover parsnips!

That reminds me of a previous thread on here (I forget the thread title) and somebody mentioned computer operating systems asking people how likely they would be to recommend them to a friend. Somebody said her DH would always put 0 out of 10, even though he was very happy with the OS; when the survey asked for the reason for his apparent very low rating, he wrote "You need to understand something: people don't sit in the pub chatting to their mates and recommending operating systems, however good they may be!"

Yes, this indeed!

Deborah Moore, and then Amanda Lamb, were both in their early 20s when they took the role. I'm presuming they replaced Deborah with Amanda because she got far too 'old' to play a believable widow, even though she's only 60 now - and they were from London and Portsmouth, so not especially near Scotland either!

Advertisers always run scared of properly representing older people, even when they are the exact key demographic that their product is aimed at. Look at the adverts for walk-in baths - the models are always 40 at the very oldest, and without any clearly apparent physical disabilities.

Ooh, that Jane Plan advert also makes me shout at the TV every time it's on.

The way they try to make out that they offer a valuable - free! - tool by enabling you to 'discover' your BMI on their website, as though it's somehow esoteric knowledge that you couldn't very easily find/calculate elsewhere.

The way they start off by asking "Could you be overweight?" - as though it's something positive in the same vein as "Could you be entitled to this benefit?" is irritating enough. However, it's such an absurd suggestion that viewers won't have the faintest clue that they are overweight before then. Presumably, it's not going to be people carrying an excess 6lbs of weight who completely scrap buying their own food and planning their own meals in favour of an expensive replacement where they delegate and outsource it all to them?

What?

You don’t want to see diversity on TV in case ppl think life can be diverse, equal ops etc?

Are you saying you rather TV was not diverse so ppl aren’t lulled into thinking workplaces can be diverse?

What would you like to see? No women, black/brown folk, disabled etc?

Really?

Wow.
The keywords are 'forced & performative'. Supposed diversity in the media bears no resemblance to any reality in UK villages, cities, census or on the job market. It's a box ticking exercise. I'd rather see women of all colours and minorities be in positions of power where they can set the agenda, commission programming & adverts etc. The focus groups and funded content creators are usually white, non diverse, male, under 35, highly privileged, hearing, 4 limbed, non wheelchair bound, non guide dog user and privately educated nepo babies and Oxford grads who double up as MRA's and diversity box tickers. Apart from a very few repeatedly booked 'diverse' people the reality is not diverse!! How can people apply a critical lens when they don't know the reality.

Adverts. All of them. Who makes them?!? They always feature shouting people and seemingly stupid men and why do women always seem to be strutting about, knowingly in their bra and knickers? We dont see men strutting about in their underpants or talking about leakage. God, i miss the old days of handsome men smoking and cars being driven to the sound of the Rolling Stones.

Any kind of quiz show.

Any kind of talent show.

This is why i primarily watch Netflix and Prime.