TV shows that should be cancelled

Nope, just those would be good.

Mrs Brown’s Boys.

Can’t believe I forgot about Mrs Browns Boys!

I’ll start with any sort of reality based TV and soap operas.

Funkmasterp for PM

Football / golf / horse racing.

I'll start with Gogglebox, but really the question is throwing the net too wide!

Any bloody 'reality' series or anything with 'celebrities' in.

Mrs Browns Boys x1000

Firefly

Star Trek Discovery

ITV, Saturday night television on bbc.

The News

Silent Witness

American Pickers now that Frank has gone.

BTW I agree with all the suggestions so far;)

How anyone finds Mrs Browns Boys amusing is completely beyond me.
Cancel Love Island because there can't be another show that gives more youngsters BDD.

Love Island
Towie
Those posho ****ts
The one show
The shove hapeney quiz

Anything with Laura Kuenssberg in it

MRS BROWNS ****ING BOYS! Who the **** watches that shit?

Eastenders. Get in the.....river!

Am I allowed to say Batman?

I’m saying it, even if it’s mainly movies I mean. The character has been done to death in so many different ways. Time for him to hang up his cape and slip silently into the night.

Spiderman is prob a close second.

I used to quite like The Apprentice but that is now just another clichéd and cringeworthy reality show so that can go.

Mrs Brown's Boys x 1000

Anything with Keith Lemon in it - possibly the least funny person to ever appear on TV and that's saying something.

Most of the Celebrity... shite can get in the sea too.

Any bloody ‘reality’ series or anything with ‘celebrities’ in.

Mrs Brown’s Boys.

Absolutely these!

Firefly

I hate to break it to you, but Firefly ran for 14 episodes, back in 2002-2003, plus one film to tie up loose ends.

A rather pointless thing to mention in this context, I’m sure you’ll agree.

US Traitors.

No hang on that can’t be right?

That thing about nuns and midwifes. Total shyte.

The opposite of the other thread. What TV shows just shouldn’t exist and need consigning to oblivion.

So

I hate to break it to you, but Firefly ran for 14 episodes, back in 2002-2003, plus one film to tie up loose ends.

A rather pointless thing to mention in this context, I’m sure you’ll agree.

It was not cancelled quick enough, it was so shite it really should have been consigned to oblivion!

Any property-porn, escape to the shitter, wannabe landlord parasite flipping houses guff accompanied by plinky-plonky pizzicato strings/Ukulele/whistling. Go on, **** off.

Also,

The News

Abso-cocking-lutely. Remember the days when the news commanded respect? When it would tell of serious, important NEWS. Rather than 45 minutes about which vegetables are now racist, followed by ten minutes of outrage about some politician who was caught eating crisps in the house, and then a five minute postscript of something actually interesting which they'll barely have time to mention.

@jambourgie has nailed it there with the house/property programmes. See that Kirsty and Phil pair? Or Escaping to the country? Or places in the sun? FRO, the lot of 'em.
I would also add Early Evening Quiz stuff. Pointless, for instance; clue is in name.

any sort of reality based TV

On my last two visits to the UK that seemed to be the only TV that was left. Utterly depressing.

I’ll start with any sort of reality based TV and soap operas.

Going to be difficult to top that one.

At some point in time, soap operas came along, a sort of low budget way to fill air time. Quantity, not quality. Etc.

Then reality TV arrived and made soap operas look expensive.

Quite why anyone would choose to watch that, when we have quality TV drama and docs coming out our ears, is beyond me.

Anything with Michael McIntyre in ... The haughty laughing ****

Question of Sport - some people think about sport
Graham Norton/Johnathon Ross - tell us that pre prepared anecdote, not tell us your next or praised anecdote, and another, got a film out? Great, next person.
Anything that's filmed in that awful "reaction" style (masked singer being a prime example) because the audience don't have a long enough attention span

All car shows
All property crap
All reality tv
Soaps
Well most of it really.
Come to think of it I might as well take the telly to the tip and do something more interesting.
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Any of the seleb hosted banal quiz shows which are like a bad rash....
The Apprentice is a complete toss-fest too.
Mrs Browns boys.. awful unwatchable tripe.
Shite in the Attic
Michael MacIntyre... banished to the Mull o' f-Kintyre
Top Gear Murika

The One Show.

be careful what you wish for.

You dont have to watch them, and they keep mouth breathers sat on the sofa, rather than out and about. Pubs, trails and public spaces will be a lot busier without them.

Anything that is an hour long with 20 minutes of actual content. It used to be a really American way of doing TV but we've started doing it here now too, it annoys the absolute piss out of me. You know the sort of thing:

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[li]Opening credits[/li]
[li]"On the show today..." [bunch of clips spoilering most of the show][/li]
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[actual content!][/li]
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[repeat pseudo-interesting bits of content three times in slow motion][/li]
[li]
"Coming up after the break..." [bunch of clips][/li]
[li]
[adverts][/li]
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[more adverts][/li]
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[Christ, are we still on the adverts?][/li]
[li]
"Previously on..." [bunch of clips you've already seen][/li]
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If (advert_breaks < 12) redo from start [all ads are identical to last time][/li]
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"On the show next week..." [clips showing the entirety of anything vaguely interesting from the next one][/li]
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Closing credits[/li]
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Anything with Michael McIntyre in … The haughty laughing ****

I don't mind MM on the whole, but his current Saturday evening Big Show or whatever it's called is dire. It's cringe TV and I can't be doing with cringe TV. It's the light entertainment version of Terry and June, "whoops, through a series of improbable events my trousers keep falling down, I hope that's not the vicar ringing the doorbell!"

Maybe that's what should be cancelled generally. If you can have reality TV then I'm having vacuous lowest-common-denominator light entertainment Saturday Primetime shows hosted by anyone your gran might refer to as "nice," like Bruce Forsythe or those two nice young Geordie boys.

MRS BROWNS * BOYS! Who the * watches that shit?

Me if it's on.

Quite why anyone would choose to watch that, when we have quality TV drama and docs coming out our ears, is beyond me.

Quite why anyone would choose to take time to complain about what other people watch, when they could just watch what they like and leave others to do the same, is beyond me.

Any 'formulaic' shows should, leaving only one behind, go and get an original idea instead.

For example..
All 'amusing' panel shows should go, just leave one (I dunno, Buzzcocks or Have I Got News)
All housey building shows should go, just leave one (Grand Designs?)
All misery fest soaps should go, just leave one (again don't know, there must be one that's OK?)
All reality shows should go, just leave one (that recent UK version of Traitors would do)

etc etc, you get the idea.

Has anyone said Mrs Brown's Boys yet?

Mrs Brown's Boys.

Good Morning Britain - I can feel my IQ dropping by the second if it happens to be on as I'm passing through the room. With those 'competitions' to win £10000 a day for ever etc, where you have to phone in on £3/min numbers and spell I-T-V, etc.
Anything featuring Piers Morgan or Richard Madeley.
Anything where you have to buy/find some crappy 'antiques' and sell them for a profit.
Anything with that Drew Pritchard buying stuff from unsuspecting people who don't realise how much he's fleecing them. Daylight robbery and a highwayman in plain sight.
+1 for Soaps, MBBs, Made in Chelsea/TOWIE etc

All mid afternoon TV
Mrs Browns Boys
Anything with that big daft smug bloke on it - Richard Osman i think his name is
Gogglebox
Anything with Alex Jones

I dont really watch TV any more, so they may have been cancelled already for all i know!

Anything that follows the 'eliminate one participant each week' format. Cooking/baking, singing, dancing, sewing, potterying, assault-courseing, skating, business-ing, defusing unexploded bombs - there's just too many of that same old format rehashed time and time again. Maybe they need to do a final version where a bunch of TV execs have to come up with a single original idea for a new show once a week otherwise they get eliminated - or sent to participate in the unexploded bomb show.

Mrs Brown's Boys x 1,000,000
Anything with Kieth Lemon x 1000

Then anything similar to the walking dead, seriously by the third series it was like okay everybody would either be a zombie or dead by now, you cant just keep running away forever and keep it entertaining.

Going to have to vote such series as the flash becasue I refuse to have to watch another 3 series in order for the plot to make sense. Stop trying to force me into a franchise!

Pretty much all of them. But then my tv hasn't been plugged in, let alone switched on, for nearly a year! Watched the odd documentary on iPlayer and HIGNFY when it's on, Top Gear when I'm bored too. Apart from that I stick to streaming services and YouTube.

Anything that is an hour long with 20 minutes of actual content. It used to be a really American way of doing TV but we’ve started doing it here now too, it annoys the absolute piss out of me.

During the first lockdown it peeved me off so much that I decided to time the different segments of a show on ITV (think it was some sort of history programme) and for a 1 hour show it was:

14 minutes of adverts.
3 minutes of credits.
23 minutes of fresh content.
12 minutes of highlights/spoilers for the hard of thinking.

The missing 8 minutes was taken over by a 'quick' news thing and a weather forecast. The show also dragged out the 'suspense' at every occasion to the point the whole show could have been compressed to a 15 minute video and actually been better for it.

MRS BROWNS * BOYS! Who the * watches that shit?

Eastenders. Get in the…..river!

These were the first things that came to my mind. I'm embarrassed that the BBC puts it's name to them.

I did happen to watch a couple of quiz shows the other week and it seems to be the trend that rather than just deliver the answer you have to pad it out by explaining either your thought process or explaining why it isn't answers a, b or c.... this should go too!

Hmmm...

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• Thinks how much time I spend watching Dave/Yesterday/Quest!

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If anyone mentions Wheeler Dealers they are dead to me - that programme is TV crack. Even if I've seen the episode a dozen times before I still have to watch till the end! 🙂

Was Silent Witness always as bad as it is?

Anything with Alex Jones

Alex Jones is on the telly?? How the **** did I miss that!

@ernielynch - you know for a fact if Al Qaeda offered her the right package she'd start hosting their new breakfast show!! She's just awful! 😀

Another vote for Silent Witness.

We used to watch it back in the day when it was less far fetched and shit, and now my wife insists on series linking it so the box is clogged up with about 3 seasons of the bloody thing.

Also, I can't watch Ms Fox anymore entirely because her cousin is such a massive and nasty ****. Highly irrational I know, but he has tainted them all in my weird view.

I'm just going to add, anything with a 'jeopardy arc' in it. FFS, don't create false drama/tension where there is none, we can see straight through it.
Strictly. Stopped watching it around the time that Ola Jordan left [thinks ruefully...].

Naked Attraction. Once you've seen 6542 mishaped penises and 8760 odd size tits, you've seen em all*! 😆

Never Mind the Buzzcocks. Bringing it back was a massive error.
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(*I've only seen it twice really. Honest. It makes me heave)

Silent Witness is so bad it's comical now! The wife likes it though so I sit through it and pick holes in it.

Call the Midwife should be cancelled - it's the same ruddy storyline every episode. So, so dull and preachy.

it’s the same ruddy storyline every episode.

You know that there's a glaringly obvious solution, right? And it applies to, like, this entire thread.

@ernielynch – you know for a fact if Al Qaeda offered her the right package she’d start hosting their new breakfast show!! She’s just awful

Ah, you meant the female presenter. I thought you meant Alex Jones the geezer. I would love to watch him on the telly.

I don't watch the One Show but I quite liked that Welsh party on Would I Lie To You.

You know that there’s a glaringly obvious solution, right?

Not when it's a Sunday evening and you'd rather not start an argument! 🤣

like Bruce Forsythe or those two nice young Geordie boys.

Is the ones where one of them ran someone over while drunk driving?

During the first lockdown it peeved me off so much that I decided to time the different segments of a show on ITV (think it was some sort of history programme) and for a 1 hour show it was:

14 minutes of adverts.
3 minutes of credits.
23 minutes of fresh content.
12 minutes of highlights/spoilers for the hard of thinking.

The missing 8 minutes was taken over by a ‘quick’ news thing and a weather forecast. The show also dragged out the ‘suspense’ at every occasion to the point the whole show could have been compressed to a 15 minute video and actually been better for it.

The 'cheaper' channels use 20 minutes of ad content per hour of airtime.

Anything with the word 'Celebrity' in the title

Naked Attraction. Once you’ve seen 6542 mishaped penises and 8760 odd size tits, you’ve seen em all*!

We stopped watching when we started recognising it was n't the first time a particular contestant had been on the show.

Which bit did you recognise?

Also, I can’t watch Ms Fox anymore entirely because her cousin is such a massive and nasty ****.

I get a touch of that myself, but it's Billy Piper stuff that I get this a lot more with - she was married to the twunt for 8 years!

Everything on ITV2 except Family Guy and American Dad. Mrs Brown Boys is indeed shite but that is part of the appeal and the hatred reaction to it is funny.

There's far too many food shows
Police Interceptors et al

The National Lottery draw show - not cancelled but trimmed to avout 2 minutes.

Any poxy awards shows - could all be done by post - "Yeah, you're wonderful - here's your medal/statuette/money etc".

Any of those "How to spend less on food" idiot fests. Micky Flanagan ripped the p*** out of that proper style!

Lizard lick towing.
Any program with baliffs pn it. Watching people whose lives are a car crash anyway getting evicted really is poor taste.

Looked at thread, considered asking why anyone would watch anything that was 20% ads, a genre they didn't like etc (bar being close to the one they love, though don't know I'd love someone with tastes that different to mine), and above all whether people still flick through channels... Why would you? I tend to start watching at 10 stop at about 11:15 unless it's a pub night, and tend to go on reviews, recommendations and browsing the streamers or whatever my wife wants to watch.

But reading the thread I realise that because I don't watch stuff I don't want to and can't remember when I last flicked about (we're on a min channels package with virgin, but only watch via apps) I've never seen stuff like the repair shop, love island, chat or panel shows, etc etc. And am I increasinly a high court judge with zero knowledge of popular culture.

I therefore resolve to watch some of this shite.

Anything where you have to buy/find some crappy ‘antiques’ and sell them for a profit.

it’s the buying in antiques shops and dealers (retail) and trying to sell them on at an auction (wholesale) thing that bugs me.

I’ll try pitching a program about buying carrots from Tesco and trying to sell them back to the farmer

The Boys

snooker, golf, horse racing, football, tennis. particularly anything with pundit banter

anything on Dave and Wheeler Dealers can get in the Sea

any of Z list Celebrity stuff and duckface reality TV knackers

any TV show trying to spin the police in a positive

Mrs Browns Boys is comedy Gold

Was reminded by poster up there: hignfy. It was funny back then in the early to mid 90s. Not it's just a bunch of hackneyed old farts!

Cancel everything currently in production,revert to 3 channels, bring back The Waltons and Play for today cease transmission at midnight.

Anything hosted by that bastard ventriloquist dummy headface Bastard Mulherne. The shiny, cockney nobber.

it’s the buying in antiques shops and dealers (retail) and trying to sell them on at an auction (wholesale) thing that bugs me.

My dad and sister did Bargain Hunt last year, came away with a Golden Gavel and ~£300 so it can be done!

No, I haven't watched it.

Anything hosted by that bastard ventriloquist dummy headface Bastard Mulherne. The shiny, cockney nobber.

Proud to say I had to google him.

Still mostly want gogglebox cancelled beyond all else. Effective immediately.

Kardashian / Towie / Made in Chelsea / Real Housewives of Possil types of 'reality' bollox where all the revelations and arguments have perfect camera angles, light and sound. All of them faker than Jordan's norks. Oh aye, her too. Vacuous pish the lot of them.

Mrs Brown Boys is indeed shite but that is part of the appeal

They walk amongst us... 😳 😉

Anything that follows the ‘eliminate one participant each week’ format. Cooking/baking, singing, dancing, sewing, potterying, assault-courseing, skating, business-ing, defusing unexploded bombs

Whoa there!

Bake Off is great and Throwdown is genuinely interesting the jewellery one is meant to be good too.

And the last one I would definitely watch