Things you notice aren't right on TV shows

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I'm just starting to watch the TV drama The Lady. After the police are in the flat it switched to a scene with Charles and Diana's wedding accompanied by I Just Can't Get Enough by Depeche Mode - that hadn't been released.

There are exceptions, obviously, but they aren't the norm.

Particularly conductors.

Although, to be fair, I see enough in concert halls who don't seem to have a clue what they're doing...

Did you ever see Ed Balls conducting at a constituency event? First time apparently, and he understood the assignment

Yes it is - maybe that’s where they got it from!

I have a friend whose family all sit down together for breakfast every morning. They don’t eat together in the evenings due to other commitments so breakfast time is the only time of day they get to see each other around the table.

Dramas are good because they expose natural life experiences.

I don't mind that.i rather the horse be comfortable.i did know someone in a Robin Hood type film and he said the horses armour was made of cardboard.

In call the midwife (all the series, not just the later ones) they use centimeters instead of feet and inches. Clearly they knew this is not an accurate reflection of the period. Do they really think the viewing public wouldn't understand? A lot of their audience would have used feet and inches in real life. I still think in imperial measurements and have to convert centimeters back in my head.

Sure, a small tablet, but most people do need a drink, and it’s not recommended to swallow tablets without a drink as they can stick to the oesophagus and cause irritation.

I remember swallowing a paracetamol with not enough water once and it literally felt like it was burning a hole in my oesophagus. I can't imagine how discomforting it would feel rawdogging it

Agree. And going off on a slight tangent but the tablet posts reminded me of when Steve in Line of Duty was taking loads of painkillers for his back injury. Lots and lots of scenes starting with him opening a pack of pills and hoovering some down. Not ONE time did he open a pack at the "leaflet end", yet this always happens to me. So annoying.

Ibuprofen can be swallowed dry because it’s often got a slippy sugary coating, maybe a tiny antihistamine, but anything else, nope.

When a detective (think Barnaby, Vera, Morse) goes to speak to someone about a murder and they casually carry on doing whatever it was they were doing, unpacking a van, carrying boxes around a warehouse, etc and then walk away from the detective telling them they haven't got time for this. If a police officer turned up to question me about a murder I'd immediately be sweating heap, even knowing I was totally innocent, and would probably end up gibbering some kind of confession anyway in my mad panic.

This is one of my major ones too. US shows are guilty of this as well (looking at you, Law and Order). Years ago, there was a serious crime in our neighborhood, and police officers went house to house asking for information. I guarantee you that I was laser focused on them and their questions. I did not say oh excuse me do you mind if I fold a load of laundry while I talk to you about this.

On the phone. They say see. Dinner tomorrow? And they say yes and hang up. No arrangements , places times etc. they don't ever say goodbye either. Just hang up

Not a TV programme but I saw Mothers Pride at the cinema today. Enjoyed it. But a heart attack victim sitting up, chatting and moving had a heat rate of 60, that didn’t change at all. And a slightly dodgy looking ECG rhythm.

Genetics graduate and sibling of a brown-eyed brother with two blue-eyed parents here. Yes, he looks just like our dad (except the iris colour!).

People always think they've got the hang of genetics from pop science... but they have no idea how far off they are. Unless you're looking at pea plants, actual genotype/phenotype patterns are mental.

Saddles are made to fit each individual horse. So the organisations who supply and train horses for filming could easily provide each horse with its own period tack that fitted properly, as well as its ordinary set. After all, it won't be used as a one-off, horses are used a lot in period dramas.

Another; when you see super buff men that never set foot in a gym. Like, never. It’s not even mentioned in dialogue “yeah I’ll be there after I’ve finished at the gym” or “no I wasn’t there I was at the gym” How are they so hench?

People wearing corsets with nothing underneath - and every corset being tightlaced regardless of the costume era. When they fit properly corsets were pretty comfortable and could be worn longer than modern underwire bras.

In breaking bad, every time they finished a dodgy call on their burner flip phone they just snapped the keyboard part off. Job done, evidence destroyed, not traceable.

The bloody SIM card would still be intact! Memory card if installed would still be intact. Quite likely the phone would still be on too, but just without the screen.

I’m an intensive care doctor and can’t stand it when people are ludicrously annoyed about medical dramas being unrealistic. Like yeah no shit they didn’t actually intubate an actor. I also don’t care that for the purposes of not introducing 80000 characters every week they show a surgeon doing something a cardiologist would normally do, or that they cut out the boring bits like waiting for the hospital helicopter or sitting in a room whilst an ID physician tells you off for your antibiotic choice,

I thank God I’m not so literal that dramatic licence ruins art for me.