Moore blames women for 'banal' TV - what?!!!

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what a nob!

Oh dear god. I quite like Moore, but what an old sexist fart!

There's lots of banal TV these days for both sexes. I love his idea of two separate networks segregated by gender.

Has he seen Top Gear? A programme made for and by men. I rest my case.

I think he might have been staring at the sun for just a bit too long.

i like his idea of a golden age of tv. presumably when he was allowed to stand infront of a blackboard droning to himself. (i used to quite like him too).

If only there was more xlophone playing on TV.

snort at boco

Hey, if we're going to go around blaming whole genders for things, does that mean we can blame men for all the road crashes? They do generally drive more aggressively.

Can we have two road networks, one for them and another for us?

Men are also disproportionately responsible for crime, particularly violent crime.

Sod this whole 'separate frequencies' rubbish, I think we should go whole hog, and get separate countries.

am really sad as I liked him

perhaps we need more monocles as well as xylophone playing on the telly - qualidee programming

But I bet there would be more cheery waving, and less road rage.

Anyway, men are responsible for at least half the congestion. And don't they drive most of the HGVs? Taking those out would improve things no end.

I do think he does have a point

BBC tv durng the day is soooooooooo boring

houses and car boot sales YAWNNNNNNNNNNNN

I don't think it is down to women

What a sexist looser

You can't blame women for programming but the most poor quality tv is aimed at women.

My dh loves being at home through the day sometimes as he gets to watch drivel on tv

Yet when I am home alone, the TV is never switched on!

He's talking out of his arse.

He's a twat.

I have always told people this and gotten slagged off for it.

Muppet

ooh so glad it wasn't me - thought for a moment I was being too female and having a hormonal reaction!!

LOL at Boco!

Patrick Moore has no real influence on programming and he is about a million years old - I will continue to think of him affectionately as he is a part of my childhood and my interest in astronomy - he is a silly old man for voicing such unreconstructed views publicly but it is more likely to harm his reputation than do anything else...

OMG Patrick Moore is still alive??? I mean he's got to be at least 136!

He's 84, highly intelligent but bonkers.
I saw him on "Question Time" a couple of years ago coming out with some dodgy views about immigrants.

I think he correctly identifies a symptom, even if the cause is suspect and his sweeping generalisation about what TV used to be like is a bit revisionist. There are more TV hours to fill now (only 20 years ago we still had "Closedown" on BBC1 in the middle of the day!) and inevitably those hours are going to be filled with stuff aimed at people most likely to be watching it - housewives, students and the unemployed. And a great deal of it is going to be shit.

Of course, his arguments completely ignore the wonderful, clever and sexy Julie Gardner of BBC Wales, so I'm not having it!!

PMSL @fio. my thoughts exactly.

surely it's relative? He isn't Stalin.