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What makes you want to turn over the TV?

146 replies

BrickPoet · 08/04/2024 22:43

Adverts

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muddyford · 10/04/2024 16:02

Lots of shouting, swearing or sex. And that gross advert with the woman making stupid noises at her mobile in social situations.

Mochudubh · 10/04/2024 16:23

Sport
Result shows with "pundits" that go on longer than the match.
Any "cheeky chappie" programme like Car SOS or that geezer that goes round the world buying WWII tanks.

GKD · 10/04/2024 17:44

PTSDBarbiegirl · 10/04/2024 15:50

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.

So you don’t want to see diverse audiences until the TV boards are diverse?

I’m all for diversity and broad perspectives but I cannot say I look at say women in an ad and thing ‘she shouldn’t be on my TV as I bet (assume) the board is all male’.

PlasticOno · 10/04/2024 17:51

MaybeRevisitYourWipingT3chnique · 10/04/2024 13:12

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.

Well, all widows are sexy 20something brunettes, clearly.

I’d quite like the admakers to be confronted by a flash mob of actual Scottish widows, preferably formidable-looking women in their sixties, holding actual death certs and large sticks.

kefirgiraffe · 10/04/2024 20:46

Dr Amir Khan.

MaybeRevisitYourWipingT3chnique · 11/04/2024 00:21

Those absurd adverts for shingles jabs that tell older folk that 'it might be their year' - i.e. you may have reached the age group that qualifies for free vaccines.

OK, you may be 80 and no longer go hang-gliding; but I'm sure you've still got enough of interest in your life that getting a medical jab isn't the absolute highlight of your existence, akin to winning some sort of amazing lottery.

Whoever came up with that really must think that old people are stupid imbeciles; I wonder if they would like to be treated like that when they get old?

the80sweregreat · 11/04/2024 18:03

This morning

DanceMumTaxi · 11/04/2024 18:06

Sport. Every time I turn the telly on, it’s sport or sky sports news.

PlasticOno · 11/04/2024 18:41

DanceMumTaxi · 11/04/2024 18:06

Sport. Every time I turn the telly on, it’s sport or sky sports news.

Yes. And it’s never showjumping, or gymnastics, or bog snorkelling, or kayaking, it’s eternal bloody football, with occasional forays into bloody golf… And then the football punditry …

StiggyZardust · 11/04/2024 19:09

Ant and Dec

Mimilamore · 11/04/2024 20:01

Anything on during the day... painful. The One Show, try to beat the music to get it off. Soaps, reality, most dramas but some are okay...what a load of old tosh most of it is!

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 11/04/2024 20:10

lovepotionnumbernine · 09/04/2024 11:20

Sloppy slurpy kiss/sex scenes. I was watching the bill yesterday at lunch and two of them started kissing. The camera zoomed in and I could see and hear their tongues. Gross and unnecessary. If I want to watch porn I'll find it. It's stopped me watching Mary and George and I love a bit of historical drama.

A long-dead GM of mine would tut like mad at any slurpy kissing on TV. ‘Smut and filth!’ was the usual comment, that has passed into family lore. 😂

MaybeRevisitYourWipingT3chnique · 11/04/2024 21:48

PlasticOno · 11/04/2024 18:41

Yes. And it’s never showjumping, or gymnastics, or bog snorkelling, or kayaking, it’s eternal bloody football, with occasional forays into bloody golf… And then the football punditry …

Yes, this. I'm a huge Eurovision fan and the amount of complaints from people who aren't interested about it taking a number of hours of BBC1 over one week of the year is insane. (Yes, I know they also have some build-up on The One Show and chat shows, but these are varied magazine-style shows anyway, with no set formula or content).

Every single year, the utterly predictable "It's a load of rubbish, so they should stop showing it" - along with the people who share their incisive 'knowledge' that "it's all political, you know", because they once heard somebody else opine that 35 years ago and think it's an intelligent 'gotcha' comment to repeat.

Sport - especially football - dominates the schedules for months, and frequently disrupts other schedule staples (last year, the '6 O'Clock News' was on once at 1:30pm, because of the football). I can really think of nothing more boring at all; but I realise that the telly is there for everybody and not just me, so I (grudgingly) accept wall-to-wall football for weeks and weeks; but don't you dare come after our one-week treat and claim that we shouldn't have that either.

If you hate it, fine; don't watch it. But don't assume that your preference is all that ever matters for all of us.

MaybeRevisitYourWipingT3chnique · 11/04/2024 21:49

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 11/04/2024 20:10

A long-dead GM of mine would tut like mad at any slurpy kissing on TV. ‘Smut and filth!’ was the usual comment, that has passed into family lore. 😂

There's actually much, much less 'sex on the TV' nowadays, since flat-screen tellies became the norm Grin

Nitgel · 11/04/2024 21:50

The ad with Louise from Internal. 'Hi guys'.
The one show.

FionnulaTheCooler · 11/04/2024 22:01

That shouty man in some food box subscription advert "You need to take into account the value of this food". His voice goes right through me and those boxes are shit value anyway.

Fetchthevet · 12/04/2024 19:26

Anything with operations, vomit, close ups of poo or Ant and Dec.

taxguru · 12/04/2024 19:30

PTSDBarbiegirl · 08/04/2024 22:51

Forced, unrepresentative diversity in drama or adverts.

I agree, a real turn off and channel switcher when it's so fake/manufactured and even moreso when completely unrealistic.

Northernsouloldies · 12/04/2024 19:32

Aye the tick box is so fake.

Thatsthewayitisnt · 14/04/2024 08:06

Sport. Especially football and rugby. Loose Women. It makes me ashamed to be a woman. This Morning.

ArseInTheCoOpWindow · 14/04/2024 10:44

Loose Women.

l hate that programme. It’s embarrassing to watch.

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