Incredibly boring programs - Starting with Ben Fogle

[EllyRoff]

BF lives in the Wild must be the most boring program ever made. Every episode is the same:

“We left the rat race to live in a cow shed in the middle of nowhere. We live on rain water and mouldy vegetables but we’re so happy”

Next minute the socially isolated kids are shown studying butterflies or some shit.

I just can’t stomach it, normally I can sit and watch anything but this just irritates me beyond belief, I have to leave the room whilst DH watches it. The only other thing that comes close is Jools Holland.

Anyone else have such a strong dislike of a particular program?

Agree.
Last night they had Emma & Matt Willis on. Emma made a little jokey comment which was quite funny and the presenters managed to look disapproving and spoil the whole atmosphere.
Christ it was Emma Willis not Russell Brand!!
I wish the presenters would ease up and go with the flow.

Loose women when Mylene Klass is on.
I can't Stand the woman. Yesterday, with the grieving parents, she struck a new low in making herself the centre of attention.

The Princess Diaries with Princess Andre is stupefying brain rot, but then I realise at mid 50's, I'm hardly her target audience and have no business watching 😂

I know! And it really ought to be thrilling.

That’s because they are all old, when you could hear what the actors were saying, and they relied on plot and character rather then special effects and ‘background’ music. First channel we look at to see what’s on.

Absolutely agree with this!

Ben is great, loved his show on the Scottish islands!

And Saturday night is Royal night on C5
Same 5 bloody annoying 'experts' giving their opinions, using the same footage we've been watching for half a century.
Cheapest crap to make and mind numbingly boring.

I quite like Lives in the Wild, though some episodes are way more interesting than others, whether because they’re somewhere beautiful and remote, or because the people are interesting. I loved the one with the very young (Italian?) woman with a baby living by herself in an offgrid cabin in rural Sweden, and the priest who lived as a hermit in the mountains in Italy, and an offgrid community in, I think, Wales. I think part of the point is that Ben rocks up in his fleeces and shorts and is the amiably dopey Voice of Middle England.

However, what I think is concerning is that ever more of the episodes are about people who are the conspicuously non-coping neurodivergent, or have significant MH problems, or both. (The ‘pirate’ or that Canadian monk who was later unfrocked for sexual offences?) Or who are clearly dreadful, damaged people, particularly discomfiting when small children are involved, like the American couple in Panama who had children together despite not liking each other much, because they couldn’t find other partners, lived on separate islands and kept their three homeschooled kids away from other children so that they could control their behaviour. I thought they needed a visit from SS, and that part of the reason they were living in the wilds was so that they were unlikely to get one.

Oh, agreed! Who is that weird elderly man with the enormous, colourful ties, who has clearly made a career out of having once been some royal’s secretary? Or that grey-haired man with the ‘slit in a pillar box’ mouth who was once a tabloid ‘journalist’? Or that strangely crumpled-looking woman who used to edit some royalist magazine and does pieces to camera about Princess Diana’s frocks or Sophie opening a community centre with the blinding intensity of someone reporting from a war zone?

Spring/summer/autumn/winter watch - pick a season, pop some cameras out into nest boxes/trees and provide commentary. Unbearable, I’ve never made it through a whole episode!

Last night I saw a bit of a George Clarke programme about kitchens and gardens. He stood in a blue kitchen absolutely wetting himself with joy of how amazing it was and I changed the channel 😂

“Scruffy fleece people” is my new favourite phrase 😂😂😂

I’m just watching Ben Fogle give a dead rabbit to a massive snake. They didn’t show the gory details but it’s not boring!

There's several presenters!

I think the worst presenter I’ve ever seen has to be Alison Hammond. She is stultifyingly boring, no wonder Dermot is always gazing into the distance!

A place in the sun. It’s the same format for everywhere they go.

Scruffy fleece people did make me titter @Screamingabdabz i can’t even get to the scraping of mud stage so repelled am I by programmes of this nature.

suspect my contributions have all already been made as they’re frankly unbearable.

The One Show: Aka the shit show in this house. I dislike most magazine format shows but this one takes first place. Combinations of dim, disingenuous tosser presenters with clearly bored / irritated guests given five mili seconds to witter on about their latest vanity project or shite programme. God awful.
i can’t abide Grand Designs or Amazing Spaces. Not just the presenters but the people who are so far up their own arses they apply to go on it in the deluded belief that we want to see them wringing their hands in indecision about exorbitantly priced flooring choices or door handles

anything fronted by Laura Kuenssberg, Claire Balding,Kate Humble or Helen Skelton.

I hate it too. Even the sound of the theme time that’s all jangly gets me worked up.

Amd the presenters behave like people are interested and they are doing an important job. But it’s all shot. No one cares.

I read somewhere (Private Eye?) that You and Yours is nicknamed Why Oh Why at the BBC 😂

Me too!! Unfuckingbearably boring.

caught a bit of a programme earlier this week which was something like Celebrities Dive With Sharks. It was so utterly pointless. A bunch of people not renowned for their ability to articulate their own thoughts basically just going “OMG this is so amazing. There are sharks all around me. Aren’t they magnificent creatures. OMG a shark!!” On a loop.

I was hoping the point was that one by one they got munched, but no, they just got back on the boat and continued wanging on “OMG it’s so amazing…”

All Soap operas.
Violence and nastiness disguised as entertainment.

I agree, they're all toxic these days. They used to be entertaining but not any more.

Also, hate ALL reality TV which is likewise far too often toxic.

And fly on wall documentaries etc about so-called "slebs"

Everything these days seems so stage managed and pre-planned to create artificial suspense and nastiness.

Where has proper "entertainment" disappeared to??

I'm finding I'm watching less and less TV these days, and barely any UK produced TV.

Oh God yes! Totally representative of all farmers.

Radio here as well and I very rarely turn R4 off but Loose Ends/Clive Anderson will do it every time. That and that fuckfest of unfunny fuckery that is I'm Sorry I Haven't Got a Clue. OFF!

You need to watch Ben fogle in his other show Ben Fogle In Chernobyl. Apart from the fact it rhymes so beautifully, it’s defo not dull!
Made us wonder what other celebs could have their own rhyming show:

Nigel Farage in your Garage
Nigel Havers eats some Quavers
Keir Starmer meets a Farmer
etc…..

I also hate mrs browns boys - I’d rather be fried in a pan than watch that.

"He looks like a cross between a baby and a dildo"

This is possibly the finest thing I have read this year