[Closed] TV SHOWS, that should be consigned to history, and never be repeated

Three new words for 2020.

ENTERTAINMENT

and

CHANGE CHANNEL,

if you dont like a program, its presenters or format, use one or both actions above #simples

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Yeah, I’m with Salad Dodger, I love to moan about shit TV, but in 2020 it’s not about being ‘forced’ to watch crap when you’re watching TV because there’s only 4 channels and one of them is incomprehensible* it’s about filtering the hundreds (if not millions if you consider streaming options) of things to find something you like.

*I’m still slightly bitter that I rarely got to see TFI Friday in the 90s because S4C didn’t broadcast it until 11pm.

Morecambe and Wise are bloody terrible. My mum's family has inflicted the repeats on us at Christmases in the past but now we just slink off.

if you dont like a program, its presenters or format, use one or both actions above #simples

But STW wouldn't be the same without a "list the things you hate" thread. Might as well start 2020 with a good old moan.

Whilst I agree with everything on your list, I've got to second the comments of our esteemed greenery-shy colleague here. My Sky box has a thousand channels and that's before we get into Netflix et al. There's a shedload of fantastic viewing out there, for all the dross we're in a golden age of television right now.

Also, "programmes."

There’s a shedload of mediocre shit viewing out there, for all the dross we’re in an age of a couple of decent television programmes right now, like every other decade.

FIFM

Mrs Brown's Boys needs to be added to your list

The news.

Tory Party Political Broadcasts.

Mrs Brown’s Boys needs to be added to your list

I concur.

Jim'll Fix It

Crossroads
Why don’t you?
White Horses
Crystal Tips and Alisdair

CHANGE CHANNEL,

Or switch off.

Or switch off.

Or read a book.
Or listen to music.

Love a bit of Strictly ✨ 💃🕺✨👌🤟😎

Mind Your Language.

Hale and Pace
Benny Hill
Anything with Paul Daniels in it

Gavin & Stacey

My dad insisted it was worth a watch on Xmas day.

Apparently the two fattest actors also write it; so that's why they seem to think they are the best characters. And Rob Brydon plays a man who is hinted at being a pedo.

Laugh? Not at all.

Bin, please.

Lost in Space, unless they can come up with a plot line that isn’t perpetually “Danger Family Robinson”

Last of the summer wine

Gavin & Stacey

If the Christmas Special was the only episode of seen I'd agree.

Trying to think of tv shows is too taxing at this time of day, I've not watched regular TV for years, we stick to Amazon Video these days rather than watching the carp put out over the airwaves.

There's nothing on that list I've seen in the last decade but I'm old enough to remember when Eastenders was the ONLY thing on the telly so you pretty much had to watch.

These days it's the opposite problem, tons of what ever you want on demand, actually too much great telly being made, I simply don't have time to watch most of it, so I have to be highly selective.

Other than that people can watch watch they want.

I’ve not watched regular TV

I've not watch _scheduled_ TV in decades, since video tapes came out, but if you watch moving images on a screen, however delivered, you watch TV.

BTW a "Program" is something that runs on a computer. I appreciate them not being called "shows" (Yankophile speak), but they are Programmes. Thanks.

I'd add anything involving weird fetishes and/or voyeurism:
Dr. Pimple Popper
The Foot Doctor (actually called.. The Toe Bro. Ugh)
Naked Attraction

Should be left for the internet to contend with.

For the record: I love Coronation Street.

Why Don't You Just Switch Off Your Television Set and Go and Do Something Less Boring Instead?

I agree with the Morecambe and Wise nomination and raise you The Two Ronnies. Way past sell by date.

ok boomers

Last of the summer wine

Ripe for an update - there must be plenty of new material and characters to go at in 21st century Holmfirth. Might be the last generation of the early retirees.

Why Don’t You Just Switch Off Your Television Set and Go and Do Something Less Boring Instead?

Ok, I'll stare at my phone, say the kidz of today 😉

Big Top

Gavin & Stacey

My dad insisted it was worth a watch on Xmas day.

Apparently the two fattest actors also write it; so that’s why they seem to think they are the best characters. And Rob Brydon plays a man who is hinted at being a pedo.

Laugh? Not at all.

Bin, please.

I think suspecting Bryn is a pedo says more about you than the character. Whatever happened on the 'fishing trip' was I suspect a homosexual encounter or a where Byrn was assaulted. He is portrayed as supremely naive and vulnerable and a potential victim not as the aggressor.

I'm no TV fan - just about every conversation that started over Christmas with "have you seen...." ended quickly with me says no. Just don't seem to have time and when I do it's not high enough priority. But Gavin and Stacey I'll make time for. It's a combination of a virtual warm cuddle and very clever and subtle character writing. I suspect too subtle for boomerlives above.

Most of TV - to keep the proles happy innit? They pay their licence fees and watch the adverts - does no harm. There has always been pointless drivel to keep the great unwashed amused and probably a bit less unhealthy than the mass gin drinking of the 18th century and no more junk than chick-lit or whatever the male equivalent would be.

It’s a combination of a virtual warm cuddle and very clever and subtle character writing. I suspect too subtle for boomerlives above.

It was absolutely trash though. Even my daughter a big Gavin and Stacey fan found it very poor.

They left the Christmas puddings in the pub. Hilarious. 🙄

Wow - just watched some of Mind Your Language. Slightly staggered that was allowable even in the 70s.
Unfortunately I have a bad feeling we'll soon be seeing something similar appearing again once Farage launches his own TV channel.

My wife likes Will and Grace. Utterly horrible show, seems to be based on the premise that gay people are automatically amusing.

Any and all crappy quiz shows, Pointless, Eggheads, Mastermind, University Challnge, Countdown, Deal or No Deal et bloody cetera. Cheap to produce, showy offy drossy crap for the terminally bored.
With the possible excpetions of QI and HIGNY, cos I'm a hypocrite.
Get in the sea !

There's got to be a case for burying Friends in a disused mineshaft and filling it in?

Love Thy Neighbour (yes showing my age). I saw a clip of it a number of years ago and my jaw hit the floor with how racist it was, though to be fair it was always about the racist being an idiot.

All soaps. Every one, including the Archers.
Kardashian type tripe and anything "celebrity" related.
Pob. I hated Pob when I was young. Explains my visceral dislike of Michael Gove I guess.

One of the greatest gifts my Wife has ever given me is her own addiction to crap telly.

She loves "The Real housewives of Barnsley", "Born to money in a London Suburb" and "I really want to be famous, sing-song competition" (or whatever they're called). Her addiction means I can wander into the lounge, make a few insightful observations about the toss on screen, and then go and do something more useful with my time...

Last night the boss took charge of the remote and was watching something vapid. So I popped my earphones on, went out to the Garage and sorted out the drivetrains on three bikes. it's amazing what you can achieve when you make the choice to just not watch telly...

I'm Keen not to be held hostage by the rectangular bastard in the corner of the room.
Yes there are lots of things worth watching, I often end up watching them at odd times when nobody else in the house is using the telly, or just use a phone/tablet/laptop...
And I think that is one minor benefit of living in the west in this day and age, only idiots sit down to gawp at Ant & Dec in accordance with a broadcast schedule. The rest of us can pick and choose what we watch, what we don't and of course how and when we view it...

The thing I perhaps prefer to Telly is good old Audio; I'd rather listen to music/a documentary/audio book, leaving my eyes free to concentrate on doing other things, and at least some of that 'content' comes from auntie beeb... Your licence fee funds more than just Gavin and Stacey or Celebrity Dancing competitions.

Why has no one mentioned Big Brother? I realise the OP listed a whole bunch of reality TV shows, but to leave out the granddaddy of them all is a major oversight.

Any and all reality TV is horrible, horrible, vacuous shite.

I would rather see a failed attempt at drama or comedy than the perverse shite that is reality TV.

"I'm a Chleb, gert me outa ere"

And Ant un Dec

The Apprentice

'Benders"

"Corre'"

"That Liverpool one", where you need subtitles to understand their speech.... "whac whac, jollyyoaks"

Top Gear

Any and all reality TV is horrible, horrible, vacuous shite.

I'm struggling to think of any now that don't fit that description. If Car SOS is a sort of reality TV I'd have to keep it, I adore it.

reality TV was mostly crap, but sometimes okay 20 years ago, back when it was at least sort of based on reality at was focused on pretty normal people, before they worked out it could be a springboard to a career in being famous for nothing.

Advertisement, all of them at the same time can't switch channels fast enough ... 🤨

I have freeview so there are plenty enough channels for me to switch so not a problem if not then switch to Youtbue.

Mind Your Language.

Absolutely love it! I don't find it offensive at all. I used to watch it in the far east but watching it now makes much more sense and is very funny. 😀
If there is such class for adult I would go for it just for a laugh ...

Wow – just watched some of Mind Your Language. Slightly staggered that was allowable even in the 70s.

What is the problem with the 70s? Perfectly fine to me as it reflects the culture of the people whatever they are.

Unfortunately I have a bad feeling we’ll soon be seeing something similar appearing again once Farage launches his own TV channel.

You don't have to watch it you know just like the advertisement trying to "social engineer" into everyone minds that every family should be multiracial ...

Perfectly fine to me as it reflects the culture of the people whatever they are.

This has to be a windup? 🤣

What is the problem with the 70s? Perfectly fine to me as it reflects the culture of the people whatever they are.

Same here - my family used to watch it and laugh lots back in the day and none of us are remotely racist (well, except my mum!)*. It was more an affectionate chuckle at the different cultures.

*or maybe we all were and didn't know it 🤔

This has to be a windup? 🤣

Relax, it actually reflects 70s era ...

Same here – my family used to watch it and laugh lots back in the day and none of us are remotely racist (well, except my mum!)*.

I doubt your mum was racist but rather the way she looks at the world. We all do.

It was more an affectionate chuckle at the different cultures.

In Borneo we have hundreds if not thousands of different tribes and not all of them like each others. They can have a conversation but not beyond that until today. We have plenty of islands from the Philippines and Indonesia and all have their own cultures and views of others.

*or maybe we all were and didn’t know it 🤔

Nowadays you get to travel more to understand the world and more people take offence at being stereotyped but why impose change on them?

...and as pointed out earlier, the laughs were aimed at the bigots.

Ripe for an update – there must be plenty of new material and characters to go at in 21st century Holmfirth.

Yes they should have done a Christmas Brexit special.

Relax, it actually reflects 70s era …

Was laughing, thought you were joking that it ‘reflects the culture of the people’ ie it instead portrays other Nationalities as comically bad cardboard-cutout stereotypes from the British colonial era/perspective. It does reflect elements of the 70s era I’d agree. It may well have been poking fun at 70s British attitudes to ‘foreigners’ but never gave it that much thought. I was a kid when it was on, and it reflected the general received view back then of working class white Brits around me that ‘foreigners’ in general were either stupid, or evil/sly/sneaky/promiscuous or ‘cute’ like a furry pet (or even a mix of all three). 🤣😂.

I’m assuming we’re limiting this “hatefest” to the core BBC,C4&5 here?

If so then BBC4 should stop all the billybrexit WW2 horse crap that they spout 2weeks of the month. There seems to be a very retarded view from BBC 4 whereby instead of looking forward and innovation and informing, they’re stuck in the past going over the same old dirge about W’Churchill or some other shite about Nazi criminals or some shit related. For added effect the title of the Programme must include the words WW2 & Nazi together..

Who is the head of BBC4 BTW? Damn if I shouldn’t write a strongly worded letter to them.

Yours sincerely

Annoyed ANon, South Coast bloke.

I don't even watch ITV (apart from Family Guy on ITV 2), people at work find that strange - then I list the brain dead stuff - anything with Ant & Dec, Simon Cowell, celebrity this that and something else.

Also, over xmas some of the old Carry on films and the like which were on are well past it, I think it was something like On the Buses and looking up a womens skirt as she went up the stairs

I doubt your mum was racist but rather the way she looks at the world

Oh, she definitely is!

For me, things like MYL and the Alf Garnett vehicles are problematic because whilst the intention might well have been to satirise Alf as a racist idiot, this subtlety was lost on the real racist idiots watching it who thought he was a hero for openly banging on about "darkies."

I think it's perhaps possible to laugh along at the stereotypes - as Chewie says - so long as you recognise that they are stereotypes and what's being sent up is people's attitudes to stereotyping rather than the stereotypes themselves. Sadly I expect this was lost on most folk watching, certainly back in the 70s, and instead it just promoted those ideas.

If so then BBC4 should stop all the billybrexit WW2 horse crap that they spout 2weeks of the month.

Okay slightly different to WW2 but I was watching the documentary on WW1 (middle east campaign) where all the Aussie horses at the end of their campaign were to put down after they won. That really makes me very angry (going to turn into the big green muscular person soon just thinking of it) at those, whoever they are in the higher command, that gave the order to put down all the horses. I hope his soul is in hell being trampled over and over by the horses for eternity. Simply put, without the horses and the brave calvary they would not have won the war and at least they should respect the horses by bringing them home. A sign of respect. Remember, all the horses were confiscated from farm land in Ozland and someone beloved pets or healthy working horses. I give NO respect to those that gave such a command to put down all the horses because they own a big gratitudes to those war horses.

We used to have a water buffalo that worked in the farm many years ago and by the time it got old we simply gave him a proper retirement by feeding and looking after him like a pet (a small barn with straws to himself and let him enjoy his life wondering around doing nothing in the farm) until he passed away peacefully in the sleep. We treat all animal in the same way. We don't slaughter it when it is old or passed by it working life. Working animal should be retired peacefully as simple as that.

I rarely have my hands on the tv control, and have a healthy ability to filter out some of the nonsense my kids watch. But Mrs Browns boys is the work of Satan.

It may well have been poking fun at 70s British attitudes to ‘foreigners’ but never gave it that much thought. I was a kid when it was on, and it reflected the general received view back then of working class white Brits around me that ‘foreigners’ in general were either stupid, or evil/sly/sneaky/promiscuous or ‘cute’ like a furry pet (or even a mix of all three).

I don't agree, as I said before it tended to be the thick, white bigot who came out of it looking bad. Of course there will be those who think Alf Garnett was a real social commentator!!

27 Million viewers would disagree with morecombe and wise being unpopular. Watched the hilights of hilights this year with by adult kids. Fashions change but comic timing does not go out of style. Andre Previn, sure you may not know him if you are under 30, but that sketch is one of the most famous in British comedy history. He was the world’s most famous classic music conductor. The British love self-deprecation more than almost any other trait.

I don’t really watch television at all to be honest, certainly none of the shows mentioned. But for poor comedy that doesn’t age well, Jim Davidson, Alf Garnet, possibly Benny Hill (although it was normally self-deprecating humour with women in control). But not morecombe and wise.

On a personal note, I’d like to bring back Butterflies. Because that’s where my middle age life is currently!

Gavin & Stacey

My dad insisted it was worth a watch on Xmas day.

Apparently the two fattest actors also write it *1; so that’s why they seem to think they are the best characters. And Rob Brydon plays a man who is hinted at being a pedo *2.

Laugh? Not at all.

Bin, please.

1: Not sure what their size has to do with whether you like a TV programme or not? Mummy tell you you couldn't have another mince pie this year?

2: Takes one to know one?

Anything with Zombies or Dragons.

Anything with Zombies or Dragons.

Got a feeling you're not gonna be a fan of The Witcher. Zombies, dragons, witches, pixie elf things, goat people, walking abortions, you name it, it's in there somewhere.

But Mrs Browns boys is the work of Satan.

Except The Lord of Darkness would be far too discerning to allow himself to be associated with that crock of xxxx.

I was unimpressed with Gavin and Stacey, I think the time has passed. Although I think if they ever do reveal the content of the camping trip joke (clearly it's written in such a way that we'll never find out but the viewer fills in the gap from their own imagination) they'll reveal a tame punchline and then the other characters will be not shocked and say 'well I've done worse'

Mrs Browns boys I cannot fathom. Xfactor and all the other talent shows can all go in the bin as well. Personally I never got that interested in all the scandi drama and it seems to have passed the peak of fashion, not knocking the quality though.

There are a lot of history documentaries on BBC4 but I'm not sure that WW1 WW2 has more coverage than Greek/Roman history or Tudor history

Got a feeling you’re not gonna be a fan of The Witcher. Zombies, dragons, witches, pixie elf things, goat people, walking abortions, you name it, it’s in there somewhere.

Probably not but I feel less gammony as I'm not being forced at gun point to watch it (it's Netflix not Auntie Beeb isnt it?) unlike some of the above ^

I’ve not watched regular TV

I’ve not watch _scheduled_ TV in decades

Whilst it's always nice to be a pedant, isn't all most all of the TV on this thread absolutely the definition of regular? As in once a week, every week for x number of weeks?

On the Buses, in any incarnation. It's trotted out on one of the ITV channels in the mornings. Absolute garbage of the lowest order, I'm staggered it was ever recommissioned after the pilot. Apparently Bob Grant who played the 'clippie' attempted suicide several times, succeeding at the third attempt; it's actually a pretty tragic story.
Still a crap tv show though, although v popular in the 70s, but then so was Jim Davidson and B Manning.
Times and tastes change, I guess...

Tomorrow's World.

A program to inform & enthuse youngsters about science & engineering, to create & be optimistic about the future, yeah get rid of that...

Noooooo! They always Say never meet your heroes. But Judith Hann runs a consultancy for technical public speaking and I had the pleasure of her and her husband’s (a journalist) company for a day for some training at work. They were both excellent, and I was just a little bit in awe.

"On the Buses, in any incarnation. It’s trotted out on one of the ITV channels in the mornings. Absolute garbage of the lowest order, I’m staggered it was ever recommissioned after the pilot."

A lovely lady bus and coach driver i met, she said "ON THE BUSES" was like real life at her depot, fun every day.

Space 1999 and UFO, where absolute rubbish compared with Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlett, Stingray Fireball Xl5 and Joe 90 that where made by the same people well.

Just wait till this Saturday Night itv, prime time, and wonder who thought this was a great idea for a new tv show.

Soaps
Almost everything made by the BBC
Daytime TV shows

JP

On the buses is magnificent, you are deranged for suggesting it.

Could somebody tell me why Mrs Brown's Boys generates so much hate?

Naked Attraction is appalling on so many levels.

Love Island / TOWIE etc are a complete mystery to me. I simply don't understand if they are acting, scripted, real life or what the point actually is?

Any detective series described as 'noir'.

Could somebody tell me why Mrs Brown’s Boys generates so much hate?

Yep. It's because it's infantile shite.

Yep. It’s because it’s infantile shite.

Well - thanks for such a considered response.
Robust, objective and backed by empirical data.

You want empirical data as to why someone doesn't like something? How's that supposed to work? You were expecting a spreadsheet?

Should have added a smilie. It was typically enriched STW response.

Just joshin'.

Ah, they joy of text. Sorry!

Tee Hee.

No prob's Coug's.

I think suspecting Bryn is a pedo says more about you than the character.

Oh really? What does it say?

Stop being so defensive; if you like it, you like it. I thought it was utter dross.