Makes you wonder why we don't have dedicated film channels all over the shop,doesn't it?
Cheap to run and they don't have to be latest releases,nothing within,say 10 years old.I don't mind ad breaks either.
Come on,TV People,you know you want to.
The problem with that is that it wouldn't leave room for the old boy network to keep a select few "celebrities" on a nice little earner for many years "entertaining" us all!name='knobbykins']Makes you wonder why we don't have dedicated film channels all over the shop,doesn't it?
Cheap to run and they don't have to be latest releases,nothing within,say 10 years old.
You could hire them to talk about the movies. Of course, given the levezl of conversation that most "celebrities" can manage they wouldn't say anything of interest. But we could just treat it like an ad break and nip out to make another cup of tea.name='samkydd']The problem with that is that it wouldn't leave room for the old boy network to keep a select few "celebrities" on a nice little earner for many years "entertaining" us all!
Steve
Makeover programmes! who wants to be a millionaire, (too many smug faces) Eastenders, Australian soaps, The two Jeremy's Paxman and Clarkson, Newsreaders standing (why cant they sit down as they used to?). Female presenters that have to shout. (God I must be getting old)
I can see it now Jade Goody presenting The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp; "Well there's this Blimp geezer, ooz name ain't Blimp it's Zanussi like my washin' machine, no, Hotpoint, sumink like that, no Candy that's it I fink, anyway he's old, but not all the time 'cause it shows 'im young an' all, not a baby but sort of in his twenties and e's fightin' this German bloke wiv a sord ooz 'is best mate but you don't see 'em fightin, just snow everywhere, but at the time he wasn't 'is best mate, but we don't know theyz mates 'til lay-ah when we know wot its all abaht! Then there's this bird wot appears as diffrent birds over the years, wot's that all abaht? An' there's a bloke off Dad's Army innit, innit?"name='Steve Crook']You could hire them to talk about the movies. Of course, given the levezl of conversation that most "celebrities" can manage they wouldn't say anything of interest. But we could just treat it like an ad break and nip out to make another cup of tea.
Steve
name='samkydd']I can see it now Jade Goody presenting The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp; "Well there's this Blimp geezer, ooz name ain't Blimp it's Zanussi like my washin' machine, no, Hotpoint, sumink like that, no Candy that's it I fink, anyway he's old, but not all the time 'cause it shows 'im young an' all, not a baby but sort of in his twenties and e's fightin' this German bloke wiv a sord ooz 'is best mate but you don't see 'em fightin, just snow everywhere, but at the time he wasn't 'is best mate, but we don't know theyz mates 'til lay-ah when we know wot its all abaht! Then there's this bird wot appears as diffrent birds over the years, wot's that all abaht? An' there's a bloke off Dad's Army innit, innit?"
Now that IS a film review Ms Goody!
Just as I thought. That'd be just about the right length of time to make a cup of tea, while she struggled to describe itname='samkydd']I can see it now Jade Goody presenting The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp; "Well there's this Blimp geezer, ooz name ain't Blimp it's Zanussi like my washin' machine, no, Hotpoint, sumink like that, no Candy that's it I fink, anyway he's old, but not all the time 'cause it shows 'im young an' all, not a baby but sort of in his twenties and e's fightin' this German bloke wiv a sord ooz 'is best mate but you don't see 'em fightin, just snow everywhere, but at the time he wasn't 'is best mate, but we don't know theyz mates 'til lay-ah when we know wot its all abaht! Then there's this bird wot appears as diffrent birds over the years, wot's that all abaht? An' there's a bloke off Dad's Army innit, innit?"
Steve
I have started to create a website full of petitions for you all to consider signing after reading this thread entitled Which TV Shows To Axe. My website is called The Dumbing Down of British Television. Now without biting my head off folks, I was wondering whether you would allow me to post the link to my website on here.
Also I have my own forum up and running now and I am inviting you all to come and join it. Would anybody object to me posting a link to my forum on here. If you do object I won't post the link. I will continue to contribute to this forum as well as it has been a few weeks since I last posted on here because I have been to busy with other things. I am about to have a good look through this forum now and I shall reply to as many threads as possible.
name='Roy Galloway']I have started to create a website full of petitions for you all to consider signing after reading this thread entitled Which TV Shows To Axe. My website is called The Dumbing Down of British Television. Now without biting my head off folks, I was wondering whether you would allow me to post the link to my website on here.
Also I have my own forum up and running now and I am inviting you all to come and join it. Would anybody object to me posting a link to my forum on here. If you do object I won't post the link. I will continue to contribute to this forum as well as it has been a few weeks since I last posted on here because I have been to busy with other things. I am about to have a good look through this forum now and I shall reply to as many threads as possible.
no objections here ..or PM me the link.
Bung it on,
Go for it,Roy
Ta Ta
Marky B
What's the link, Roy? The more the merrier.name='Roy Galloway']I have started to create a website full of petitions for you all to consider signing after reading this thread entitled Which TV Shows To Axe. My website is called The Dumbing Down of British Television. Now without biting my head off folks, I was wondering whether you would allow me to post the link to my website on here.
Also I have my own forum up and running now and I am inviting you all to come and join it. Would anybody object to me posting a link to my forum on here. If you do object I won't post the link. I will continue to contribute to this forum as well as it has been a few weeks since I last posted on here because I have been to busy with other things. I am about to have a good look through this forum now and I shall reply to as many threads as possible.
Barbara
Dirk_Bogarde_Brigade - a Yahoo group
Get ready....here it comes....*KICK* I just kicked "Footballers' Wives" out of the field. You did say "awful programmes," Sam.name='samkydd']This is going to be difficult because there are so many awful programmes out there, so if we confine it to the UK terrestrial five channels, but if you were boss of all these channels which programmes do you think should be axed and why? ....
All the best,
Barbara
It pains me to say it but in recent years the Americans have produced much better drama than the British; 24, The Sopranos, Desperate Housewives, The West Wing etc.name='theuofc']Get ready....here it comes....*KICK* I just kicked "Footballers' Wives" out of the field. You did say "awful programmes," Sam.
All the best,
Barbara
The problem we have is that everything has to be cheeky chappie regional soap type rubbish full of ex-soapsters mainly from up t'North where the main theme of the programme is often a job of work; postmen, fireman, vets, country doctors, British vets in Africa, taxi drivers in Devon, prison warders, footballer's wives etc. and we never know if it's supposed to be a half-hearted comedy or something more serious.
When you analyse the stories it's the same old crap that you find in any of the soaps; cheating on partners, pregnancy, miscarriage, abortion, illness etc so the occupation of the chief characters is totally irrelevant! So basically it's written to a formula and the ingredients making a cocktail of crap that wouldn't challenge the brain cell of an amoeba with learning difficulties!
Modern "cutting edge" cobblers like Waking the Dead is full of cold characters with zero personality and although TV people may enjoy living in minimalist utopian warehouse loft conversions with all the charm of a tomb with a view of the Thames, do they have to bring that feeling of emptiness to our screens?
I've barely watched TV since 2000... and didn't watch much of it before that. Most of the TV shows I do watch are on DVD, and most of them are either from the 80s or before, or American... which is why I'm always puzzled when I hear British people talking about how wonderful the BBC is and comparing it to 'awful' American TV. About the only one time I see TV at all is when visiting my parents or in hotels and B&Bs while travelling around, and it's generally dire.
To be fair, though, as the more intelligent fraction of the population spend less and less time watching TV, it's not surprising it's being totally dumbed down and costs cut wherever possible. 'Reality TV' is about as cheap and stupid as you can get.
name='MarkG']
To be fair, though, as the more intelligent fraction of the population spend less and less time watching TV, it's not surprising it's being totally dumbed down and costs cut wherever possible. 'Reality TV' is about as cheap and stupid as you can get.
Indded, that is why I find the BBC's approach so baffling. They seem to be "re-orientating" programmes with established and loyal audiences in pursuit of the "populist/dumb" audience who would normally not be inclined to watch them. In the process they lose their established audience for marginal gains from dis-interested audiences.
Surely it is a fundamental of TV that it is easier to keep viewers than to find new ones - especially if the new viewers are the ones that traditionally are fickle and look to other media for entertainment.
All I ask of the BBC is to stop homogenising their output and put diversity above ratings in their mission statement. If I want populist trash I can switch to commercial stations..I don't need a pseudo PBS to emulate them and in the process remove my only choice for programmes that stimulate, educate AND entertain.
In the meantime I have given up watching live TV, and cherry pick from Sky+, so all the hyping in China won't get me to watch BBC's offerings.... they lost me on "coming up..."
there are still a few good programs but also a lot of rubbish, my gripe is that why cant we have a Archive channel there is just so much good stuff sitting on dusty shelves particularly at the BBC
name='tvden']there are still a few good programs but also a lot of rubbish, my gripe is that why cant we have a Archive channel there is just so much good stuff sitting on dusty shelves particularly at the BBC
You should visit my website because I specifically have a petition to clear daytime television altogether on both BBC-1 and ITV-1 to make way for repeats of all the old quality television programmes from years ago. I want to post my website on here publicly, but I don't want people to moan about all the petitions I have drawn up.
I would prefer the Test Card to daytime TV! However there are a lot of housebound people who depend on it to help them through the day; familiar faces and programmes are often comforting to people who may be living alone or in hospital/nursing homes etc. I'm out from early in the morning until late afternoon so I am unlikely ever to watch it on a regular basis, if at all, so who am I to stick my four pen'orth in?name='Roy Galloway']You should visit my website because I specifically have a petition to clear daytime television altogether on both BBC-1 and ITV-1 to make way for repeats of all the old quality television programmes from years ago. I want to post my website on here publicly, but I don't want people to moan about all the petitions I have drawn up.
Perhaps a Freeview channel dedicated to repeats of older favourites called UK Old or something would be a good alternative.
name='samkydd']I would prefer the Test Card to daytime TV! However there are a lot of housebound people who depend on it to help them through the day; familiar faces and programmes are often comforting to people who may be living alone or in hospital/nursing homes etc. I'm out from early in the morning until late afternoon so I am unlikely ever to watch it on a regular basis, if at all, so who am I to stick my four pen'orth in?
Perhaps a Freeview channel dedicated to repeats of older favourites called UK Old or something would be a good alternative.
and I'd agree. I don't have a vendetta against any genre per se, I am pro-choice, but proliferation of daytime/reality etc at the cost of diversity restricts choice. That seems to be the case when the BBC appear to be ruled by the ratings - which i feel is not the mandate of a PBS
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