To be unable to watch most TV game shows?

[Sofiria]

Light-hearted, in case it wasn't obvious, but it seems that every quiz show I watch lately has ridiculous amounts of filler. Repeatedly explaining how the game works, or reciting each contestant's points total even though they're clearly visible to us, and in some cases even going over the basic maths each time.

'Jane has 20 points and Mary has 50 points. That puts Jane 30 points behind!' and suchlike - especially if it's done before the ad break and then again after it. It annoys me so much that I can't watch.

And don't get me started on any kind of competition-based show that announces 'the winner is...' and then pauses for 20 seconds. It's not suspense. 2 seconds of pausing is suspenseful. 20 is extremely irritating.

The only quiz show I've found not to be guilty of any of this is University Challenge, which I enjoy even though it makes me feel very ignorant for only guessing a half-dozen right answers most of the time.

Eh. It's late and I'm feeling curmudgeonly. What do you all think?

YouGotta. World's stickiest bogey?

I really like the format of Pointless but I can't watch it for this reason. Filler is doubly bad on Pointless because if it's a category you know nothing about sport you have to sit through it for a LONG time before it moves on to something you can participate in. At least on The Chase there will be another question within a minute or so.

Tipping Point annoys me because of them treating the machine like some kind of living, thinking entity, but the questions are so easy that it wouldn't even be interesting if they cut that out.

Only Connect has little filler but is pretty difficult.

Pointless is painfully slow. I'm sure it could be edited down to 15 minutes if you cut out all the chat.

They could definitely massively cut down the explanations at the beginning of each round - given that it's a show that's on almost every day they could reasonably assume that anyone who hasn't seen it will pick things up. However, the bit where they chat to the contestants about their backgrounds, or indeed just chat generally, is fine because of the way the hosts deal with it. I love the way they very gently take the piss out of the contestants and each other - e.g. when they have a contestant who says he's a civil servant but won't say what type and they go off into a fantasy about him being a spy.

*Whenever UC comes on I always think of this episode"
Exactly this Sparkling A friend of DS was on recently and her masters was on the history of lapdogs in the 18th C She did very well though.