to be thoroughly shocked and upset at having seen..

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A woman looking up as a heavy stream of blood falls down from the ceiling and dribbles all over her face and her neck. Cue loud screaming.

Followed by a bride getting shot in the chest, blood spurting as she falls to the ground on tv...

At 3.30 or so in the afternoon?

Correct me if i'm wrong, but, is there not meant to be a 9pm watershed in place.....?

I don't think early afternoon when children are coming home from school is the right time to air that sort of thing?

And i'm so shocked and so cross, i'm thinking of writing to ITV?

Not that they would take any notice....

Smartarse I may be (and it was gentle leg-pulling actually, albeit with more than a grain of truth attached), it seems that there are lots of us on this thread.

Sod being gentle, sod leg-pulling.

You need two things.

A finger.

An off button.

Got both of those? Good.

Sorted.

Surely there are more mature people (elderly, housebound, retired - whatever) who want to watch afternoon telly than there are children ready and waiting for their televisual fix at 3.30 in the afternoon? What IS all this capitulating to the entirely hypothetical psychological damage to children by programmes like Midsomer Murders?
Put on C-Bloody-Beebies and you won't have this trouble will you ffs.

Missybrookes......."The whole bloody Eastenders" thing was distressing for those of us who have sadly lost children as well as very badly scripted and directed. A completely different thing to MM!!

also OP you must have had this horror on for a good minute to have seen what you did, you need quicker remote control reactions in future......just sayin like......

Its really quite simple. When something is on that I don't know what it is - e.g. its not something we regulary watch - I press the magic button that tells me the title of the programme and a quick synopsis of the content.

I then as adult make a informed decision about whether I want my DS to watch it. We tend to have children's TV on here, or Heartbeat, Pick 11 channel as DS likes to watch these. Mindyou Heartbeat scares him at times. [hgrin]

I agree with BornInAfrica. I can't stand this attitude that the whole world revolves around children. Why should people who enjoy programmes such as MidsommerMurders have to wait until 9pm to watch it on the offchance that some parent can't be arsed to read the programme guide before switching it on.

Why are kids planted in front of the tv when they get home from school anyway? They should be out and about or doing their homework or whatever. My kids know that the tv 'sleeps' for many, many hours of the day....

There are other channels to watch....

YABU. And precious.

It doesn't need to be aimed at children, but if its before 9 the content should be suitable for children.

Why???

Endless C beebies/disney is not my idea of fun thanks.

Some years ago I took the (then) little one to casualty and was directed to the children's ward. Middle of the day, no-one at the nurses station, TV on ITV, BBC or 4 and what was on, but Kyle or Trisha or Vanessa talking about sexual abuse. They also had a TV in the play room. It wasn't too much of a stretch to imagine a child who was an actual current or former abuse victim sitting there having everything dreged up. The conversation was also totally unsuitable for anyone innocent young ones too.

By the way, the watershed still applies, it is 9pm, and it applies to all UK channels. That doesn't mean murders should not be shown, but the presentation should be suitably low key to avoid scaring kids. (The might be an exception for subscription film channels, but it's pretty limited).

ITV has actually been censured in the past for showing the wrong version of Midsomer in the afternoon.