What infuriates you about modern TV?

[Loosehead]

Just commented on a Q below and I thought it may be worth starting a new thread so we can all have a rant. The thing that really winds me up is when they show you everything that's going to happen in the show at the start, no need to bloody well watch then. I presume it's to cater for chavs with a low attention span or something.

[Maggie-Mae]

LOL!!

What infurtiates me is the mindless drivell they turn out under the guise of "quality television"!

[jump79]

I hate all the reality shows on TV, get trashier every time.

[Drusilla1S]

I find it amazing when an episode ends on a cliffhanger and then you are shown extracts from the following episode that make it clear the traumatic ending you have just experienced is a damp squib, less than thirty seconds after you have watched it.

[Loosehead]

What about when they split a film with the news, aaaaarrrrrgggghhhh, why don't they just start the film earlier and/or the news later?

[:Ace:]

I hate all these antiques/carboot sale type shows.

Utter garbage!

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[Maggie-Mae]

Yes Loosehead, that is extremely annoying, especially if its a good film and you've really got into it, then all of a sudden Big Ben is bonging and the News at 10 is on.

[Yorkie580]

Why do they spend so much time telling you what the weather was like earlier when in actual fact you want to know what the weather is going to be later??

By the way, what does LOL mean? I thought it meant Lots of Love but it seems to be used all the time in contexts taht would make that non-sensical.

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Laugh Out Loud

[Yorkie580]

Ahh - makes sense now. Cheers!

[peterd]

I hate it when the news comes on in between a film. ALso hate the way the volume seems higher for adverts

[ali_alic]

Know what you mean Loosehead. Do you remember Columbo?? It was actually part of the script that you know who dunnit right at the start. Never understood the point of that!!

[purpose]

I HATE it when you switch on to watch something specific, say, at 9pm and between the programme that was on before it and the one you want to watch, they show you an advert for the one about to be on... and then they over-run so your programme starts at five past. I know it's only a few minutes, but WHY do it...?

Don't show me the advert. Show me the programme!!

[andy-hughes]

News presntation annoys me. I hate the way they have the 5 presenters either perched on those luidcrously uncomfotrable benches that no-one ever sees anywhere else - with good reason, or leaning on a metal rial half way up a staircase - what the thinking there is heaven only knows.

I used to loathe Trevor MacDonald - if a listed building could talk, Trevor doing the news is how it would sound.

Now I hate 24 hour 'rolling' news, when there is patently nothing happening since twenty minutes ago, they go even further into the realms of nonsense simply to have some 'news' to put out.

But what I hate most is the way we have adopted the American media tactics of 'fright' news - every night there is the end of the world as we know it because of something or other, which usually comes to nothing at all. Bird flu? That was the end of western civilisation, but where is it now?

Nonsense. I hate nonsense and speculation dressed up as factual information.

[gazzawazza]

I'll tell you what annoys me...

When you're watching a programme, and at the start they give you all the details of what they're doing. Then, whenever the adverts have been on, they repeat all of these details, as if viewers don't have the capacity to remember more than three minutes! It's so annoying."Location, Location, Location" and "Selling Houses" are prime examples of this.

A similar thing happens on "The Great British Menu." They introduce the chefs every day, okay, I can understand that, but every day they run footage introducing the judges, when they only actually take part on the Friday edition.

And I absolutely hate all those audience/chat shows where they drag up the most ludicrous people to confront "issues" and the audience goes mad.

I also hate all the Pop Idol type wannabe shows where the audience screams and hollers americanly, (new adjective?) and the way local radio stations "get behind" local entrants even when they're RUBBISH!

[Mikeyd2]

The talking over the end credits as soon as they come up . A wind up especially if it has a good theme or song .

The constant trailers on BBC1 and 2 for the same programme that's about a week or longer away at every break.

[gessoo]

Too much annoys me to put on this thread. Mostly, it's all the reality shows - every single one of them and especially BB. Our TV goes on less and less these days.

[unruliejulie]

I hate it that we don't get any good family comedies anymore and where have all the game shows gone! I hate the fact that its Emmerdale every night of the bloody week!!!!! Put a good game show on instead!

[Mattk]

ALL reality tv.Whose reality ? I dont watch people i couldnt care less about sleeping or doing their washing up and I dont want to go on holiday with people i dont actually like ! to name but 2.

[halfadaily]

Film end credits, when they're either cut out or squashed up so that the channel can promote what's coming on next. Channel 5 are the biggest culprits for this. I've sat through plenty of rubbish to the bitter end just to find out the name of a song on the soundtrack only to find it's not readable or chopped out to make way for the adverts.