Dancing On Ice

[collette62]

Anyone looking forward to dancing on ice tonight?
Last years final is on ITV2 now!

[gina32]

yes, i am, i love skating

[mccfluff]

i've just had a nose, holly willowbooby certainly lives up to her name, although that might be something to do with her pregnancy :-)

i don;t think i can bring myself to watch it though

[Ankou]

mrs kou is a regular. but we were put off by advert breaks every 8 minutes (yes iI was so bored i timed it). the show could have lasted an hoyur and been far more entertaining. 2 hours and only 8 skates at about 90 seconds each - what a waste of an evening.

[flip_flop]

Mrs Flop was watching this last diatribe last night.........but the thing that amazed me most from the 30 seconds I saw was that there were men in the audience! And presumably they were there voluntarily. Most appeared to be with wives or girlfriends so its not as if they were all puddle jumpers.

The mind boggles.

[tinkie]

I was absolutely bored last night and turned over, this has never happened before, it didn't help that kerry katona was on, a has been that should never be given air time, and then I turned on This Morning there she was again, acting in a very strange manner, I can't believe that the public voted to keep her in D.O.I.

[andy-hughes]

I really don't enjoy this format of programme - people performing in ways they don't normally, for the eddifice of the masses.

It brings to mind Doctor Johnsons' comment on the concept of a woman preaching -

"It is like a do walking on its hind legs - it is not that it it done badly, but that one is surprised to see it done at all."

That sums it up for me, so I don't watch.

[LoftyLottie]

Flipflop - why shouldn't men enjoy watching ice dancing? It's very skilled and both blokes and gals have to be exceedingly fit?

Angela Rippon truly deserved to go. I can't stand her and she wasn't very gracious in her defeat.

[LoftyLottie]

Andy. We disagree on this ;o)

[andy-hughes]

We do - with the sort of bloodless non-rancourous comrpomise that is possible betweeen two mature adults.

(Wow, I must write that down ... oh, I already have!)

[gingejbee]

This show is now "over-done" to boredom-point - Two and three-quarter hours of air-time for what actual entertainment? All the shouting from P.S. and those enforced standing-ovations EVERYBODY and EVERYTHING gets is just TOO MUCH!

[LoftyLottie]

Agree Ginge.

But I do love the skating. I would love to be able to skate.

[DTCwordfan]

My daughter who is 8 has made it through to a US nationals for iceskating dance as part of a team. When she saw the replay, she was laughing at this programme (last years) in just how stupid and inane it is.

[andy-hughes]

Actually, what seriously annoys me about this type of show, and with it X-Factor et al, is the braying audience who whoop and cheer at the slightest sound or movement in front of them, and let's face it, most of them haven't got a clue if what they are looking at is in any way technically gifted, or has any meaningful degree of difficulty of skill involved, they simply whoop and shriek like a giant stag and hen party, because they think it proves what a good time they are having.

That puts me off watching more than almost anything - except the X-Factor, of course, when Konnie or Cheryl appear, I can't hear the braying for the loud rushing noise in my ears, which occurs until I fall over in a swoon ...