Hell will consist of back to back Antiques Road Trip

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And news, news, news, news

honestly ART, what an utterly drivel filled programme it is, people buying crap with the unfunniest narrator. My dad loves it. I dread being at their house at the appropriate time, as I am today.

it's even worse than Bargain Hunt and I can't stick that either.

either antiques or Doom Laden News from the Middle East

I feel your pain. I actually felt depressed having to watch the daytime TV channels I had to endure during the years I took my turn helping care for my dad. My mother would always rejoice in how much she loved them and try and get me to join in the 'enthuse'. She also loves mind numbing daytime quiz shows and Strictly. I abhor all daytime TV, no matter which channel and I detest Strictly.
I loved my dad dearly before he died and would have watched anything that made him happy as he was often unable to communicate by that point and drifting in and out of lucidity and/or sleep.
This whole scenario is so awful, but dare I say it, my kids will probably say the same about me if ever I'm that age 🤔.

Recently passed DFIL had Last Of The Summer Wine on an endless loop. I don't think MIL has put the TV on since he died - she just sits there in blissful peace.

I suspect my future may involve Vintage Telly on a loop, with a particular focus on old WW2 stuff and "comedy" that comes with the warning that "this programme reflects the values at the time it was made." This may reduce someone's lifespan.

Oh you've reminded me of my MIL and her love of watching Judge Judy. Whenever she came to stay,we'd have to watch it over and over,while she gave a running commentary of what she thought of the protagonists. That and soaps,and Only Fools and Horses on repeat. We don't watch TV so it was a revelation.

Oh dear god the unbelievably racist black and white westerns 😂
dad loves them. Mum hates them, as she does antiques/upcycling/fraud programmes, but as she can't speak dad decides she likes them cos that's what he wants to watch...

It sounds better than my DDad - he watches anything with Jeremy Clarkson in. Of which there is a surprising amount, covering a surprising number of years. If we phone him up we hear it in the background even. I don't actually mind a bit of classic Top Gear on occasion but it is wearing a bit thin now. Although it has now become a bit of a family in-joke - when saying goodbye on leaving his place we now often say 'And on that bombshell.....time to go' and the kids throw in an occasional 'meanwhile' at random times.

He also occasionally watches the old Morse episodes as well, although not so frequently. Thankfully both are still better than actual current daytime TV.

DH loves antiques road trip and bargain hut, I can't bear anything like that, followed up by pointless

There is something else similar as well, where someone brings in a bit of junk and 3 people are sat in a room and bid on it, he likes that as well.

How about re-runs of Bullseye on Challenge TV? Not super, not smashing, not great

I raise you 4 In A Bed.

I was off sick from work for a long spell once and I somehow watched an Antiques show where there was a red team and a blue team. They went round a car boot sale with £100 or something for an hour, bought stuff, and then put it up for auction somewhere else later. Iirc the winning team and their pundit absolutely wet themselves with excitement because they made a profit of £20!

I was seriously like WTF? I was worried my co-codamol was playing mind games with me.

Now I love 4 in a bed. And Dinner Dates. Pure class.

I saw a bit of this the other day for the first time. Someone had paid £60 for a giant, ugly floodlight, and then resold it for £40. How on earth did they manage to resell the hideous thing at all? I didn't watch much more after that!

As someone described it “buy retail, sell wholesale”

I have one answer to all of these:

Tipping Point

Mind, once when I went in, someone had left dad’s tv on a shopping channel. I retaliated by leaving it on BBC Radio 3.

Ha ha. They don't make a "profit" though do they? On most of these shows, at any rate, there is no allowance made for auction fees, or transport, or time taken to buy and sell things. A "profit" of £20 in buying vs selling might actually be a loss, even if you don't account for your time.

My mum was a great one for saying, "You could sell that blah-blah of mine for me, they go for £50 at auctions." (according to Bargain Hunt or something). Hmm, given that I'd be visiting her by train, and the blah-blah was too big to carry, and I didn't want to spend my weekend visit at auctions or car boot sales anyway, that would be a no.

Another favourite - "You could sell that for me on ebay." So I look on ebay, find several listed for £1.99 and don't bother.

Conversely, my Mum never, ever watched any of this stuff. Once she was too far gone with dementia and in a care home, she and the other residents were plonked in a circle and forced to watch this stuff all bloody day, whether they liked it or not. It made me very sad…

I love watching Antiques Road Trip with my DH if we ever have the chance (about once a year) - I love all the weird and wonderful places they visit to see peoples collections of stuff.

Sadly, my ILs think it is ‘silly’ (we have tried to explain that it is supposed to be light-hearted, humorous, etc but to no avail) but watch Antiques Roadshow, which I hate. They are always watching programmes about history and can never tell you ANYTHING about what happened in the programme!

When my brother was diagnosed with a brain tumour years ago, he apparently turned to another family member and said "Well, if I've only got two weeks, put Homes Under the Hammer on". I still laugh fondly about that whenever I see it. (He'd been a very skilled carpenter and builder, and doing up wrecks was His Thing.)

Mind you I'm currently sitting playing on my phone while DS watches a YouTube of a man jet washing a drive so...

In the days when Emmerdale was Emmerdale farm,my gran used to ask us every week if we watched it,"because you are farmers". As my mum hated soaps,we never watched it,but I'm sure that it had as much to with with farming,as I do with quantum physics.
I was once asked to go on one of those daytime antique programmes. I don't know which one it was,as I don't watch TV,and said no thank you,as I've no desire to be on TV in any way,shape or form.

Try watching U & Drama in an afternoon, every advert is for either over 50's plans or Distinct Funerals & Pure Cremations, we call it the death hours.

Oh, dear. We recently got back from our nightly visit to make sure FIL has everything he needs before bed. He's in a kind of assessment phase for care needs and there's a blank space where the evening call should be. So he sits happy as a sandboy watching TV quizzes while DH and I run around sorting out laundry, refreshments, bins, commode etc. It drives DH bloody mad, not that we'd get much in the way of conversation anyway.
I don't mind. I quite like a quiz, and it makes a change from darts and snooker, which is the other option. It used to be wall to wall antiques roadshows and challenges when MIL was alive.

I raise you Going For A Song with Michael Parkinson. Though I have a soft spot for it as a relative of mine was the guy who brought the antiques out every show.

I'd be grateful for any of those. My dad's faves are Judge Judy (ENDLESS reruns) and wrestling.

My dad was once on Celebrity Antiques Road Trip (not as a celebrity I'm hasten to add 🤣)

After years of Antiques Roadshow brainwashing, I actually quite like it now. Can't get on board with the 6 o'clock news though.

Dad used to do the afternoon quizzes and countdown (as well as the crossword in the paper) as he always said you have to keep the brain active. Even after he had his strokes, bless him.

Mum has retreated to Talking Pictures tv in her dementia and won’t watch any other channel. They have some cracking films on I must admit, as well as old tv programmes from the 60s and 70s. I often find myself watching, I do like a classic b&w film.

DH reckons BH and Homes under the Hammer will be his reward in retirement as he loves how crap the programmes are. I refuse to watch but somehow get sucked in if they are on, hate them.