To not want the BBC to film women giving birth?

[SwedishHouseMat]

I don't see why the BBC should waste my TV license on filming women in childbirth for the next series of " The Midwives".

Childbirth is not new or groundbreaking. We will not be educated. We won't see anything we haven't seen before on countless other "fly on the wall" documentaries.

I don't understand why anyone would think watching a women give birth is entertainment.

well I don't watch Eastenders or Top Gear so lets start by scrapping those - also Radio 1 and Radio 3 oh and online viewing as I don't use that

or maybe just accept that not everyone likes everything and that's why the BBC offers variety

Wow. Can I borrow your crystal ball OP?

You know it won't be educational and you don't feel it's entertainment.

I love programmes about birth, and babies, and midwives. They generally do a fantastic job and I think it's good to see it on the TV.

I dont see why the BBC should waste my TV licence on filming football for the next series of "Match of the Day"

Football is not new or groundbreaking. We will not be educated. We won't see anything we havent seen before on countless other "football" documentaries.

I don't understand why anyone would think watching football is entertainment.

Horses for courses innit

Can we stop showing cricket and football? They bore the tits off me.

I found OBEM very reassuring when I was pg with my DS

As Gordy says, why not give us a list of everything you don't like as you should obviously be in harge of what they show

I also hate Eastenders, cookery shows, The White Queen etc

Scrap everything but Radio 4.

Actually, before I had DD I had very little idea what went on around childbirth. I had friends with babies and so on but who nowadays actually sees another woman giving birth? That is new and ground-breaking.

Are you upset because it's a bit icky really?

I feel the same way about antiques programmes.

Old thing - worth more than expected = happy faces
Old thing - worth less than expected = stiff upper lip and disappointed nodding.

Nothing groundbreaking there either.

In fact can they just spend the entire budget on Dr Who and a new series of Torchwood - thank you please

YABU. We will not be educated?!? Who made you the judge of everything?

No, I want to keep cricket on, because I like it.

However, my house is newly decorated and gleaming, so I wouldn't mind ditching all the house DIY programmes. We're not moving house either so Kirsty and Phil can go.

why? its just another part of life and people are interested in it. shall we stop all tv some people see as pointless as I am pretty sure people dont give a shit about a fat guy completing a giant burrito, but man vs food is huge :/

Yabu

It is educational.

There are various things about childbirth I wasn't really aware of before watching One Born Every Minute because people don't talk about them.

Tears for example. Women might say "I had x stitches" but I had no idea what they were actually stitches for. It was like my brain refused to make the link .

Or just things that can go wrong and what is done to rectify it.

It can't be wrong that these programmes give women a better insight into childbirth if they haven't experienced it before? What they can ask for/expect etc?

Eastenders, football, Dr Who, cricket, Top Gear and Radio 1. They can all go.

so do tell us OP what you deem worthy - surely all TV is just chewing gum for the eyes

I love programs about childbirth.

There isn't that many of them to be honest. I can only think of OBEM that's on at the minute.

Let's just stop all sport and the news. All incredibly dull.

I'd rather watch women giving birth.

for those of us who have not had kids it is very educational, actually.

and excellent contraception

Badgers

My friend is doing a nursing degree and said doing the maternity part was both the most amazing and most awful thing he's ever seen. He also admitted it made him glad he wasn't a woman, "Alis, I just couldn't do it. It's so amazing but fuck, no way!".

With you Mrs. Pratchett, everything off except Radio 4. Or it was until this morning when the play featured someone noisily giving fake birth....

Don't feed it.

So the BBC's TV schedule should revolve around you?

Your tv license payment would pay for about 1 second of a show, so take your pick. Wouldn't get much for it would you?

They must be planning to film a lot of births to get a non sweary one.

If they had filmed me, for example, they would have to bleep over most of it.

Ooh, it was painful.

...Women might say "I had x stitches" but I had no idea what they were actually stitches for. It was like my brain refused to make the link

Oh my gosh, this has reminded me of when dsis had her first baby and she told me she tore and needed stitches...I was only 17 and thought she'd ripped her stomach whilst the baby was coming out . I didn't understand or know what she meant until I had my first baby 7 years later and I tore and needed stitches!

Women need to know their shit before childbirth IMO. The more realistic docufilms about childbirth the better.

Who died and made you god of all telly eh swedish?? Maybe you haven't realised it yet, so let me break it to you...we are all individuals who like different TV shows...not everyone thinks the same as you!

I agree, it is educational.

It's entertaining too, but that's why it's educational - loads of people will watch it who're not currently expectant mothers, because it is reasonably interesting TV with a bit of personality to it. Obviously the same people could all go and do a bit of research or borrow the worthy NCT class video, but a far smaller number would bother.

I think it's good to have something that indicates birth isn't something scary to be hidden away.