You’ve seen one episode, you’ve seen them all?

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Inspired by the ‘Vera’ thread - what are the shows you can see once, then theoretically never see again without missing anything?

My vote goes to Location Location Location. As much as I love it, the formula is eternally predictable:

‘Steve and Samantha Deluded-Twats are looking for a spacious two-bedroom apartment in west London. They love pricey Chiswick, but only have £300k to spend. They’re hoping that, with our help, they can find an area nearby with an attractive high street with a villagey feel and lots of independent shops and cafés, even though they buy everything off Amazon and get their lunch from Tesco Express like the rest of us. Today, I’ll be showing them a one-bed in need of work opposite a condemned council estate now being used as an unofficial skate park and drug den. I REALLY hope they can see the potential’.

Share your nominations…

Ah yes the diffident detective. Is he very English?

OP I LOVE your description of Location Location Location, it's spot on!

For me it's Britain's Got Talent. It's always:

Creepy illusionist involves judges in their magic trick
Precocious 12yo warbles out Whitney or Mariah
Annoying and untalented children perform a 'cute' dance on stage and make everyone cry
Street dance group in hoodies move their limbs quickly to bad U.K. garage music
A contortionist of some sort
A dog does tricks
A cringey, Talentless but slightly amusing act that David Williams presses his golden buzzer too
A nervous opera singer

I'm loving this thread, it's really cheered me up.

Loving the Grand Designs ones.
When I was struggling to get pregnant (lots of IVF) I told DH we should go on Grand Designs. Sure fire way to get pregnant apparently.

Lost - we've discovered something that will finally explain what is going on....oh, actually it just raised more questions, but if we can just do something or other it will definitely explain things...as infinitum.

ad infinitum

@Ichoosechocolate

Rich house, poor house.

Two families swap lives for the week. One family is from the richest 1% in the country the other from the poorest 1%.

Poor family arrive at the rich family home and gasp at the sheer size of it. Family look dazed when they realise how much they have to spend for the week and ALWAYS on the first night have a really big and expensive takeaway. This is usually followed by a spending spree on electronic goods for their children.

Rich family pretend to be pleasantly suprised by poor family’s accomodation and dad usually exclaims it reminds him of his childhood roots.

Rich family go food shopping and buy pasta and cheese for the week because that’s all they think they can afford.

At the end of the programme both families meet and talk about how much they all have in common. Rich family offer some kind of mentoring/financial assistance to poor family.

Sidenote- I have a love/hate relationship with this programme because on the one hand it does show there are some good people in the world but isn’t it just tv poverty porn?

I'd agree with that, but you forgot that the poor family always go food shopping at a farm shop, always! The house they're staying in could be so close to the Palaces of Westminster that you'd get tinnitus from the ringing of Big Ben, but the producers always take them off to a farm shop and make them spend £XXX on all manner of stuff.

I have worked in many hospitals, it’s not that exciting or shouty,or shaggy
Nor are all the staff ever so attractive yet ever so damaged

"HOUSE! Whatever the diagnosis (99% cancer) you won't be right until after the third adverts!"

"Wasn't it usually Lupus?"

Whatever it was, they usually had a seizure 18 minutes into the episode.

Half the people on the Escape to the Country/A Place in the Sun style shows want to downsize...then complain that every house they are shown is far too small for them. They proceed to buy a 5 bedroom house with an acre of garden.

This thread is great, one for classics? @MNHQ

Escape to the Country or any property show..."good space"

Inspired by dh’s viewing habits, I nominate ‘Storage Wars’, a show so monotonously repetitive, it would bore people to death were I to describe it.

My DH like Storage Wars too, and American Pickers, and the Ice Road Trucks one.

I loved coach trip… not sure that’s still on though…

Bitchy/snobby couple get annoyed with broad yorkshire women, who pronounce everything wrong and cackle to much. There’s some kind of food making where the lads mess about to impress some girls, some farm animals run amok, someone gets sea sick. Brendan is an international guide and some fairly normal people get a red card and sent home because they’re not bitchy/quirky/funny enough.

I've seen one episode of ' storage wars' and it was awful and boring !
The American version of DIY sos shows them actually demolish the house completely, just to show Nick Knowles who is boss.
They always have to do it bigger and better!

@the80sweregreat

Sunday Brunch Two twatty men cooking things you should never have to face on a Sunday morning and trying to interview an odd bunch of z listers who clearly don't like each other much but have been told to plug their latest show / book / theatre productions or whatever and enjoy the avocado on toast combo they have just made Rinse and repeat with different guests the following Sunday

You just know that if it wasn't for the TV opportunity, they'd be at the back of the peloton causing a three mile tailback on the A3 every Sunday morning, don't you?

@HappyWinter

Half the people on the Escape to the Country/A Place in the Sun style shows want to downsize...then complain that every house they are shown is far too small for them. They proceed to buy a 5 bedroom house with an acre of garden.

This thread is great, one for classics? @MNHQ

And they want period features and character but low maintenance, big windows and high ceilings; rural but with a regular bus service, close to several independent shops, a choice of pubs, a theatre and a large Waitrose; a small, easy to maintain garden with room for a large vegetable patch, a summer house and a trampoline for the grandchildren.

And ideally they would like it for £83,000 but in a sought after area close to good public transport links to the city and ideally a motorway (but with no traffic noise).

@Gemma2019

Naked Attraction - never has a programme with such salacious content been so sexually unappealing.

Anna rolling out the old mantra every week “We like to start where a good date ends… naked.” Well actually no Anna - my idea of a good date doesn't end with Dominic, 38, an admin assistant from Leeds critiquing my fanjo and nipple colour.

That's an excellent point

LAST OF THE SUMMER WINE
Old men go for their daily ramble
Old men plan to do something daring
Scruffy Old man ends up falling off, rolling down the hill or some other similar misfortune
While out on the ramble they catch Howard & Marina at it
Old men go for tea & get chased away by battle axe ladies after scruffy Old man has had a grope of Norah Batty & her wrinkled stockings 🤣

@the80sweregreat Tim Key did a great parody of Tim Lovejoy

Enjoy!

Selling Sunset

One half of the office is always bitching about the other half. Christine is bitching about everybody while swanning round in increasingly more ridiculous designer outfits, 10 inch stilettos and ankle length hair extensions. More designer dresses and bags than you can shake a stick at. The short arse twins who own the business swan around smirking at the women and trying to look manly in too tight tshirts with their shiny bald heads and 6 foot girlfriends. No one ever seems to actually sell a house. The only one who tries is Davina, who stupidly took on a house worth eleventy billion, so it's never going to sell, but she still spends every episode trying. And no one helps her because everyone hates her, possibly because she's the only one without fake tits. Add in sparkly shots of downtown LA and Beverley Hills mansions between every scene.

I bloody love Selling Sunset.

QVC
Buy this old tat because it's reduced and we need to get rid of it. Up the anti at Christmas time.

Buffy
Clique of misfit high school/ uni kids juggles their personal problems often involving dating last week's monster of the week whilst fighting this week's bad guy who's been in makeup since 3am that day. It looks like there's going to be an apocalypse but they save the day when Buffy stops being a ditz and listens to wink man Giles and poofs the baddy in a fable like finale.

Biker47 yes, you’re right about the farm shop, how could I forget that?! It’s either a farm shop or an organic shop where a bottle of shampoo/soap costs what the poor family
would usually spend on a week’s food shop.

@PyjamaFan

My DH like Storage Wars too, and American Pickers, and the Ice Road Trucks one.

I feel your pain, dh likes Ice Road Truckers too - …in Southern Alaska a man drives truck in icy conditions, meanwhile in Northern Alaska another man drives a truck in icy conditions…