To expect something decent to be on tv?

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Came in from work earlier on. Had a bath, then wandered downstairs to vegitate watch tv for an hour before cooking tea.

But, there's bloody nothing on and all the stuff that is on is totally blokey! 007, Star Trek, 007, Top Gear, Carry On Rubbish, more 007

We have freeview and I couldn't watch a dvd because they're either kids stuff or 18s

I don't want to watch silly, girly stuff, just something interesting and not blokey and naff.

I know I should use my time more creatively, but I've been up since 6am working.

AIBU?

its the law that saturday nite telly has to be crap :(

Sat nite telly is absolutely crapola.

I am watching Dads Army on BBC2

But DVDs are never crap!

We're getting a dvd. Also a bit pissed off that I forgot to set the recorder for Dr Who so now have to wait til tomorrow on bbc3

is it?

I thought there'd be a family movie on or something.

and Come Dine With Me Down Under how rubbish is that? The UK one is bad enough.

I'm all grumpy now 'cos I aint 'ad me telly fix

dvds - choice between Dr Who, The Clangers or A Clockwork Orange

iPlayer/4od etc?

I am loving Dr Who at the moment but not sure I'd be that enthused by a DVD of an older series.

The dcs are the Dr Who fans. I haven't ever really bothered with iplayer. Perhaps I should take a look.

i hate dr who, it's so tarted up

Am watching Simpsons movie with ds,quite funny.

I like The Cybermen and the Ood and The Daleks, but can't understand the stories.

Why is virtually everything on the tv so blokey? It's all cars this and extreme engineering that It's well seen who decides what's going to be on.

i'm half watching a thing about louis xiv

You missed Don't Scare The Hare on BBC1 then?

Who the fuck decided that would be excellent viewing for a Saturday night?

They need sacking killing.

Doctor Who? Don't you like Doctor who?

Exile was really good - on I-Player. And there are loads of good dramas on Radio 4 extra.

I like engineering and science stuff though. Not TG. Not generally keen on 'girly'.

Spiral om BBC4 is AMAZING.

I'm not intelligent enough to understand Dr Who I just can't take in what's going on and end up just wandering around the house looking for stuff to do.

I don't know what Scare The Hare was about.

I know not of these programmes of which you all speak

i am watching the good life - its the best programme ever!

YANBU. If there's nothing on that I really want to watch I just switch it off now and go and read a book instead...or lurk on MN of course. Its so easy to just sit and watch any old crap but if we all started finding something better to do maybe they'd be forced to rethink the schedules.

Omirian's right, go on iplayer if you can.
the News Quiz on radio4 has been brilliant this series

Due to weird arieling, I watch mostly online and although it's destroyed my concentration level, it's good to be able to choose.
You're right though, tv is rubbish tonight.
Apprentice starts next Tuesday, hooray

You're not wrong, telly is shite tonight, so I'm watching Pride and Prejudice (BBC version) that I bought last week.

I love it so much. It's fucking awesome.

Try this

There are some Arthur C Clarke short stories on Iplayer and some ghost stories. And a really good radio crime drama with Imelda Staunton.

Or read something. I am in the middle of a Jo Nesbo book and it#s brilliant.

I love the News Quiz, but never seem to have time to watch/listen to stuff. I just flop down when I can between frantic cleaning/tidying etc.

I have given up watching Coronation Street recently, so I'm feeling a bit twitchy atm.

Thank you for the link and the suggestions. Perhaps I really need to rethink my viewing habits and go online a bit more.