Programmes that you can't imagine anyone wanting to watch

[ILoveJamaica]

Cruising with The Nolan's. Can't imagine anyone wanting to watch that. Even the advert makes me cringe.

Not so much that I can't imagine anyone watching it, more can't imagine my MIL watching it, Home And Away. My MIL is in her late 70s and very posh with very posh friends and every day she sneaks home from bridge club or knitting circle to watch it. She'd kill me if I ever let the cat out of the bag.

Any show in which members of the public are encouraged/invited to get their bits out in the name of science (there needs to be an emoji for 'shudder'.)

So Naked Attraction, Embarrassing Bodies...

Anything showing medical operations. Georgie shore type of programs, why would you want to see anyone shouting, fighting, having one night stands, showing how unintelligent or superficial they are.

Any documentaries about police, hospitals, ambulances, sewage workers, scrap metal dealers etc etc.
They've been done to death!
I particularly hate the police ones and wonder how much of their time it takes up acting in these endless programmes

Top Gear especially when it had Jeremy Clarkson in it.

I'm a recent convert to gogglebox though. Didn't think I would enjoy it but I really do.

I've just remembered that DH was on a cruise WITH the Nolans in his Able Seaman days. He worked for P&O for many years in his youth. I seem to recall a salacious tale about the night they performed in the crew bar....

@CluelessHamster

I've never understood the appeal of Gogglebox.

I switch off adverts for it as it irritates me so much.

Been running a long time though so...

I avoided it like the plague and wouldn't have considered watching it but I was mindlessly channel hopping and began to watch. I am now addicted 😬

Geordie Shore. I watched one episode once.

And I have a high tolerance level as I can sit through The Real Housewives and Love Island.

Also, Naked Attraction is something you only need to see once.

Squid Game

Tipping point - I'm convinced there is a dodgy magnet under there. Ben always seems to know when it is going to ride before it lands. Then when a young woman wins he is all over her. Yuk.

Am I the only one who reads ‘Cruising with the Nolans’ like this?

Not a program but a film - human centipede. Haven’t seen it - I can’t imagine any good can come from watching that, I feel queasy thinking about it. I’m surprised someone had the thought of ‘human centipede’, had the guts to share that thought with others (I’d be worried about my state of mind if an idea like that popped into my head - someone might suggest I’m unstable and need locking up…), made it into a film, and then people thought ‘yeah why not? Sounds like a good watch.’

Mrs Browns Boys - it’s hideous. What’s wrong with people?!

I hate anything like Love Island/Made In Chelsea etc but I can see why some people enjoy them I suppose.

I live the Jane McDonald cruising show. I just switch over when she sings

Anything with Amanda Holden in, just bloody awful

Kardashians and Love Island

Countryfile and the One Show. It’s a no from me.

Any show in which the audience is whooped up to a frenzy to laugh, scream and applause hysterically before the end of any sentence a 'talent' show Judge says..

Saturday night crap-fest year in, year out 🙄

Longdistance
Same!
I can't be doing with her singing but I like the cruise bits.

Squid games, no idea why anyone wants to watch that

@BarefootHippieChick

I can't think of one offhand but who tf came up with the idea of cruising with the Nolans?!!

Be someone copying the Jane McDonald cruising programme

Anything with Keith Lemon in it.

@Powertoyou

Anything showing medical operations. Georgie shore type of programs, why would you want to see anyone shouting, fighting, having one night stands, showing how unintelligent or superficial they are.

I quite like medical operations ones, especially when they are doing complex and groundbreaking stuff - though the US versions where they pixilated the actual operation bit are very annoying, and as for Botched, where they coyly block out nipples just after you have seen a surgeon rummaging about in a woman’s breasts, it seems very extreme, the people on Botched are not generally shy so I am not sure whose modesty the nipple blocking is protecting.

I switch off any of the talking heads programmes when they are talking about the Royal Family, you know they are not going to say anything remotely interesting about these overprivileged people with their gatekeeping PR hovering. Prince Andrew an exception, but I doubt he will be allowed to open his mouth again within 100 m of a tv camera and or Fiona Bruce ever again.

Fawlty Towers

@languagelover96

Fawlty Towers

God, yes. I think it’s a thoroughly unpleasant programme.

@languagelover96
But FT is genius
I think your telly must be broke!