Oh fgs I YEARN for something good on the telly

[UnePrune]

WHY OH WHY OH WHY is so much of it just utter, utter shit?

I actively want to watch something, I love tv. I don't passively want to have it on in the background.

Every evening I try to find something - sometimes there's half an hour of comedy I like. And then we turn to Dave. They must be COINING it in. But if I have to watch another QI repeat I might just go mental.

I'm seriously thinking of not paying the licence fee any more.

What are you going to be watching tonight?

I completely agree with you - nothing on.

My DH and I are even watching BB, which we haven't watched for many years...

Vexed? BBC2 now.

TV is abit crap at the mo... have been relying on BB

autumn usually brings the best tv - dreds of summer still at the mo

mad men starting too soon!

TV is almost completely shit ATM. The only things we've watched lately are University Challenge, Dr Who, Sherlock, Luther and Survivors!

We tend to watch DVDs in the evening or play wii/quizzes etc.

We have decided to ditch the licence actually. It's a joke paying that much IMO and the good stuff is on iplayer/4od etc anyway.

You have to have a licence to watch TV on iplayer etc ARMS, just incase you didn't know that.

Agree it's shit

AND it's BH weekend...

I totally agree its dire, especially Big Brother and the X Factor! DH downloads Series 3 of True Blood, only thing worth watching at the moment.

yes Lady I think you replied to my thread the other week? it's only live streaming that you need a licence for, though I think they are thinking of introducing a 'catch up' TV licence for those who only use iplayer.

Ah, that's interesting algebra
I thought you had to have one for iPlayer too - or rather, if there is a receiving device in the equipment.
(I think all computers now can receive tv? Somehow. By magic, perhaps.)

I suppose the logical thing to do is to stop wanting tv to be good. It's just that when it's good, it's very very enjoyable. Ho hum.

I don't even look in the paper any more.

God the days when I "looked forward" to X-day when so-and-so was on.

We are borrowing DVDs off anyone who'll lend them to us.

Apprentice will be on soon though

"I think all computers now can receive tv? Somehow. By magic, perhaps."

Well, streaming isn't guaranteed, esp if your connection is slow. I've had no working landline for about 8 of the last 11 days (it worked Wednesday to Friday last week, then died a bit after midnight Friday night and still no dial tone or broadband). Even when it is working it is likely to be under 200 kbps (ie 0.2 Mbps, not the 3.5 to 6 Mbps which lots of city dwellers can get, as reported last week on C4 news).

I suppose having a plain TV (without a Freeview or FreeSat box) would no longer be able to 'receive' TV signals compared with previous years, so one could actually buy a DVD player and use an old TV with SCART connection to plug it into, without any licence.