To think that modern TVs with all the "apps" are not great?

[comoatoupeira]

I just got a modern TV where you turn it on and it offers you all these different apps. It bothers me that iPlayer is just one app, when the BBC is so much better quality than most of the crap that is on there. I think it's a shame that while we are in the UK the TV doesn't put the UK channels front and centre. I worry that no one will watch the stuff that's usually really good, because now it's quite hard to find and buried in all this other stuff that is mostly from America.
Also I don't like how you do a search and it shows you lots of stuff you have to pay for, it's like asking you to make purchasing decisions and engage that part of your brain when you just wanted to switch on your TV which you already paid for to watch TV which you already paid a licence to have!
BTW I am not very old (34) so it's not because I'm 'out of touch'. I really think the decision choices aren't the right thing for the media options there are now.
Thanks! sorry bit of a ramble.

I think you can highlight which channels you prefer under favourites. At least on mine you can.

You are free to ignore all the apps and only watch BBC. Do that.

You can customise your home screen to show the apps you use, including live TV.

I love having all the apps so easily accessible. We use iPlayer, channel 4, Netflix, Amazon and Disney. All have brilliant programming, all have crap (which is sometimes what you want). It's very rare that we watch live TV these days, it's nice to fit it around our schedule.

I've seen it on tv in France. Yes, always a cooking prog, usually American, barbecuing on a grill the size of a bus, powered by gas rather than charcoal. For some bizarre reason, those 'random strangers' who watch sides of cows being cooked, seem to find it spectacularly wonderful!

British? No, thanks. Much prefer American tv, HBO is amazing, Apple tv has good stuff, paramount and the rest. British films/series/docs are dreary, second-rate garbage. Deleted the iplayer altogether.

We have all the apps, watch stuff on all of them
Get yourself an analogue tv op and the radio times so you can just watch bbc 🙄