This Morning

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Anyone else watching just to see Holly and Phil?

I think initially about a year but believe they can be renewed (re-paid for) indefinitely.

I think they call it 'humour' - it's quite common, I'm surprised you haven't heard of it.

I WFH and I usually have R4 on or Sky News on my iPad in the background. Today, curiosity got the better of me, so I put This Morning on to see what all the fuss was about.
I lasted about half an hour. Who watches this absolute drivel? And why? There was a semi-interesting discussion with Sonia Sodha & Nick Ferrari, but after that it was just unbelievably crap. I get that it’s probably not supposed to be a telly version of R4, but it is just utterly banal.

Bloody Hell. Calm down! This isn't NetHuns, we have a bit of sarcasm here.

I lasted about half an hour. Who watches this absolute drivel? And why? There was a semi-interesting discussion with Sonia Sodha & Nick Ferrari, but after that it was just unbelievably crap. I get that it’s probably not supposed to be a telly version of R4, but it is just utterly banal.

Come on. It can't be a total shock to you that programming exists for other people, can it?

These comments turn up with absolutely tedious regularity in any discussion about a programme perceived as "low-brow". And nine times out of ten they deploy the word "drivel", like some sort of snobs' version of the Freemason handshake.

The answer is that many people watch and enjoy programming like this. And Love Island, and Big Brother, and the soaps, and Naked Attraction, and football matches, and any number of other programmes you or I or Joe Bloggs might turn our noses up at. If they didn't, it wouldn't be on.