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?

Disagree with Lives in the wild, I really like it. However, strong agree with Jools Holland, he needs to give it a rest with that bloody honky tonk piano now!

Is Ben living ìn a shed along with his family? Not so long ago their London house was up for rent £7k a week in an area I always took care to avoid. If he is in a shed, it's not from need. What I really hate is wealthy middle class 'celebs' playing at povvo. Kirsty with her crafts, Nigella lauding cucina povera, there's plenty more. I'm feeling very tetchy this morning.

I don't like love island etc. but they aren't boring. Boring is that awful tip show. I've seen it once or twice and just so, so boring.

@ThePure , I love Any Answers, especially when Anita Anand is doing it. I like that people think their opinion is so important.
There are quite a few R4 programmes I switch off, Down the Line being one of them.

I agree. Jamie Oliver banging on about £1 meals and supermarket bargains of the season has always been something that riles me like nothing else!

Don’t watch much tv but the ones that get the tv turned off super quick are:

Mrs Brown's Boys, obvs

Football, esp Scottish football. Who cares?

Scottish comedy. I live in Scotland. They chuck money at Scottish comedians no matter how shite they are. There must be a budgets for making tv more Scottish, regardless of the quality. It’s so bad!

Apprentice.

Masterchef.

There are others, but these are the ones we’d rather throw the tv out of the top floor window than watch.

You have clearly started a horrible, but addictive parlour game.

Danny Dyer Fixes Your Tumble Dryer
Kate Moss Mucks Out Your ‘Oss
Jacob Rees Mogg Walks Your Dog

My husband loves the Ben Fogle programe, I'd rather watch paint dry. He also likes Island Crossings, not sure if its only on in Scotland but its about Cal Mac ferrys. Its so dull. Also The Hotel Inspector 😴

I see your football and I raise you golf and cricket.

@TotHappy ooh I love anything with Simon reeves - I hate anything involving celebs competing, cookery stuff ( and I love cooking) snooker, one show, soaps, love island

<rises slowly from fainting couch and whispers faintly> How dare you! Since seeing a recommendation for Talking Pictures on here some years ago, my husband and I have taken up residence there. We've seen lots of amazingly crap long-forgotten gems there. We are old so much of it is nostalgic for us.

I find Songs of Praise very dull. Great favourite of my Mum's so I have to sit through it sometimes.

it’s quite brilliant I agree 😆

Melvyn Bragg. Anything he’s on. I had an mri last week and they offered me the radio and I realised that would actually be hell and I’d pluck out my own eardrums.

Island Crossings is lovely. Very restful for the most part, and then they show the many problems on the ferry route I have the misfortune to rely on to visit my elderly widowed housebound Mum many times a year and it gives me a chance to shout at the radio and swear at the SNP all over again. Very cathartic.

COUNTRYFILE, COUNTRYFILE, COUNTRYFILE - What is the point? although I always buy the calendar every year - the programme is soooooo niche,

@faffadoodledo , I really like You and Yours. It's on in the background and doesn't bother me. Sometimes it's fascinating.

There are too many cooking shows on the TV now .... and it's totally bored me. I now turn over when one starts.

I find all these, lets pretend we like each other, shows awful. Helen Skelton and the channel 5 news guy (oh, we have been best friends forever), the 3 muppets on Top Gear who just pretended to muck around when it's all scripted when they did the long away adventures abroad, Rylan and Judge Rinder, Gary Barlow and friends. Come off it. Boring!!!

Countryfile rarely tackles the big questions or issues , if you want a real insight to rural pressures and how farmers operate watch ‘Clarksons farm. ‘
Im a ‘ townie ‘and learnt more from this programme than I have watching many other similar shows.

I have found my people.

Jeremy Clarkson is vile.

I agree.

Plus he bears an unfortunate resemblance to Gregg Wallace.

Yes, I refuse to watch Clarkson's Farm because of him.

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

Yes! All annoying.

I hate pointless and even worse is House of Games. Richard Osman is a terrible host and not funny
i I love only connect however and the 1% club and I even enjoyed picturesmash which was awful

I do understand why people don’t like JC , but honestly his farming programme is great and so informative and real.
I don’t like magazine type programmes like ‘ this morning ‘ especially when it was with Holly and Phil.
Too many ads as well and bored looking guests.